Tribal Consultation and Cultural Resources

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District, awarded a Master IDIQ for Tribal Consultation and Cultural Resources services on December 7, 2018, with a shared ceiling of $9.9 million and ordering authority that closed on December 5, 2023. The vehicle is no longer available for new task orders.

The vehicle has exhausted its ordering window and will not accept new orders. Activity peaked early: the vehicle issued 34 total task orders between 2018 and 2023, with order placement averaging 5.6 per year in the first two years, declining to 4 per year in 2021–2022 and dropping to 2 orders in 2023. Combined task-order potential value stands at $7.6 million, with $7.5 million obligated (99% of potential value).

Task orders span Tribal consultation, cultural resource surveys and assessments, archaeological investigations under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act and Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, memoranda of agreement and understanding, traditional cultural properties studies, ethno-botanical research, GIS support, Historic Property Management Plans, Integrated Cultural Resource Management Plans, cemetery management, and artifact curation. Work locations include CONUS and OCONUS installations, with notable recent orders covering tribal consultation at Nevada Test and Training Range, the Sutter Basin flood project in California, the Central Everglades Restoration Project in Florida, and Air Force civil engineer requirements.

Competition is highly concentrated among small specialists. Statistical Research Inc. leads with 11 orders worth $4.1 million combined potential value (54% of all task-order value), followed by Brockington and Associates, Inc. with 7 orders worth $1.8 million (24%), and Stell Environmental Enterprises Inc. with 6 orders worth $927 thousand (12%). Ten distinct primes competed under the vehicle. Customer concentration is even higher: the Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District, placed 30 orders worth $6.8 million (89% of volume), with the remainder split among the broader Army Corps and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Set-aside distribution shows one Total Small Business order (3%) and 33 unrestricted orders (97%). Pricing is entirely Firm Fixed Price. Task-order values range from a $2,500 minimum guarantee to $823 thousand, with typical working orders in the range of $200,000–$450,000. Since the ordering deadline has passed, this vehicle is closed to new prime award pursuit.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Tribal Nations Technical Center of Expertise (TNTCX), Albuquerque District (SPA) has awarded a Master IDIQ for Tribal Consultation and Cultural Resources Work. Services include Tribal consultation and cultural resources work to include but not limited to Tribal meeting facilitation, Tribal consultation support, memorandum of agreement (MOA) support, memorandum of understanding (MOU) support, Programmatic Agreement support, traditional cultural properties studies, ethno-botanical studies, cultural resources survey, cultural resources assessment, cultural resources mitigation, maritime archaeological resources survey, maritime archaeological resources assessment, maritime archaeological resources mitigation, Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) investigation support, National Historic Resources Protection Act (NHPA) compliance support, artifact analysis, curation services, Geographic Information System (GIS) support, Historic Property Management Plans (HPMP), Integrated Cultural Resource Management Plans (ICRMP), cemetery management plans, consultation and cultural resources planning documents for various customers both CONUS and OCONUS as it relates to Tribal Nations support.