A12. Synopsis Pre-solicitation 25RA0007.pdf

ACTION: Pre-Solicitation Synopsis

DATE: 29 APRIL 2025

CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS: 1222 Spruce Street, St. Louis, MO 63103

POINT OF CONTACT: Rebekah Lamb, Contract Specialist, Rebekah.lamb@usace.army.mil

PROPOSED SOLICITATION NUMBER: W912P925RA0007

RELATED/SOURCES SOUGHT NUMBER: W912P925R2317

SUBJECT: St. Louis District 2025 Cultural Resources Services MATOC

PLACE OF CONTRACT PERFORMANCE: The primary contract area will be limited to the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and the five U.S. Territories

SET-ASIDE STATUS: 100% Woman Owned Small Business

TYPE OF PROPOSED CONTRACT: Firm Fixed Price, IDIQ/Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: 5 Years, Option 6 Month Extension

GUARANTEED MINIMUM: $5,000

PRODUCT OR SERVICE CODE (PSC): B503 – Special Studies/Analysis – Archaeological/Paleontological

NAICS AND SIZE STANDARD: The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this is effort is 541720 – Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The Small Business Administration small business size standard for NAICS 541720 is $22,000,000.

DESCRIPTION:

Services that may be required under this contract would be detailed in individual Performance Work Statements. These services may include, but are not necessarily limited to, the character of services outlined below.

a. Background literature, archival, and courthouse record research and informant interviews, including preparation of land use histories, research of federal, state, and local regulatory agencies. Field work might not be necessary to meet this requirement unless specified.

b. Geomorphological and environmental reconstruction.

c. Reconnaissance and sample surveys.

d. Intensive, comprehensive cultural resources surveys.

e. Architectural evaluation of standing structures, and structural conservation.

f. Assessment, treatment, stabilization, restoration and preservation of historic wood, historic masonry, and mortar materials, including cleaning methods, paint removal, removal of biological growth or other destructive agents, mortar analysis, preparation of mortar joints and re-pointing, forensic evaluation of material conditions, use of protective coatings and water repellants, and the repair and treatment of concrete materials.

g. National Register of Historic Places assessments of engineering structures and historic resources.

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h. Test excavation of archeological sites for assessment of National Register of Historic Places eligibility and, if significant, preparation of detailed data recovery plans.

i. Assessments of project impacts to cultural resources.

j. Various types of mitigation including, but not limited to, archeological data recovery, forensic recovery, architectural mitigation measures, Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey (HABS/HAER/HALS) recordation, scaled drawings, popular histories, and collection of oral histories.

k. Preparation of research designs, unanticipated discovery plans, and discovery plans, including for peer review, for a broad array of data gathering and resource assessment techniques, ranging from national, to regional, to project, to site-specific.

l. Construction project monitoring, including hosting and working with tribal monitors.

m. Remote sensing techniques, including field work and analyses of data.

n. Scanning and georeferencing of data for GIS manipulation and production of overlays from maps and aerial images.

o. Computerization of data for analyses, and creation or maintenance of meta data, data base files, and models.

p. Ingesting data to existing world-wide-web sites or digital repositories.

q. Museum services, exhibit design, curation and collections management, of archaeological, natural history, and military collections including acquisition, assessment, valuation, transportation, stabilization, conservation, preservation, installation, and curation of recovered remains, records, and both macro and micro-objects.

r. Archives, records, and knowledge assessment and management services, including digitization, records management, archival processing, historic research, and delivery of specialized archival research and classification.

s. Preparation of scientific reports and summary reports for professional journals, the lay public, or the management sector.

t. Preparation of tutorials and teaching aids, educational materials in both digital and analog format for publication and electronic dissemination.

u. Design and preparation of descriptive and interpretive displays, video productions, and mobile applications for public outreach, training, and education.

v. Preparation of various types of documentation (including agreement documents) for submission to the State Historic Preservation Officer, the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places, Department of Interior National NAGPRA, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation as appropriate.

w. Maritime/underwater archeological survey and excavation.

x. NAGPRA support related to the statute and regulation.

y. Furnish expert personnel to attend conferences and furnish testimony in any judicial proceedings involving archeological and historical study, evaluation, analysis, and reports.

Task orders may require a combination of the above skills or tasks; requirements will be provided in individual Performance Work Statements. All work must be able to satisfy current scientific standards for data collection, analysis, and reporting, as well as local, state, and federal requirements.

SOLICITATION: The solicitation is expected to be available on or about 16 May 2025. For changes to the issue date or any other changes to the information in this synopsis, potential offerors are responsible to check the information at www.sam.gov . This solicitation package will be posted through PIEE/Procurement Integrated Environment Enterprise https://piee.eb.mil/ interfacing to www.sam.gov.

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