Attachment_01-_Scope_of_Work_P16PS01405.pdf

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S C O P E O F W O R K

ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

MINUTEMAN MISSLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE

SOUTH DAKOTA

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR – NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

I. Introduction

The National Park Service (NPS), through the Midwest Regional Office (MWRO), requires the performance of an Oral History Project for Minuteman Missile National Historic Site (NHS).

The project will help complete basic historical documentation of the park’s story and resources related to the Cold War antiballistic missile defense system installed in the Northern Great Plains of the United States. The living memory information generated from the Oral History Project is essential for present and future interpretation and resource management.

The Oral History Project shall conform to professional standards regarding methodology of oral history interviewing and transcription as established by the Oral History Association (OHA).

OHA sets professional standards for oral history practitioners in the United States and may be found at http://www.oralhistory.org/about/principles-and-practices (October 2009, Principles for Oral History and Best Practices for Oral History). The Oral History Project for Minuteman Missile NHS will involve 18 individuals to be interviewed in person and 8 individuals to be interviewed via telephone. Interviews will be digitally recorded, release forms signed, and transcriptions prepared.

The Oral History Project shall be completed within twelve months from the date of contract award.

II. DESCRIPTION OF THE RESOURCES

Minuteman Missile NHS preserves two facilities that were once part of a Minuteman Missile field that covered the far western portion of South Dakota from 1963 through the early 1990s.

There were 15 Launch Control Facilities that commanded and controlled 150 Launch Facilities (Missile Silos) holding Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Developed in the 1950s, the Minuteman I missile was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), part of the triad of air-, land-, and sea-based nuclear weapons. Innovative solid-fuel technology enabled Minuteman I and later Minuteman II to be deployed from these unstaffed underground silos. Launched by crews who were stationed miles away, the missiles could travel over the North Pole and arrive at a target in 30 minutes. Minuteman II’s 1.2 megaton warhead was the explosive equivalent of over a million tons of dynamite.

There are no longer active ICBM silos in South Dakota, but more than 400 nuclear missiles are still deployed in other states of the upper Great Plains. While the threats of the Cold War era have subsided, the nation’s defense systems remain on alert.

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Two of these facilities survive in their historic state: Launch Control Facility Delta-01 with its corresponding underground Launch Control Center and Launch Facility (Missile Silo) Delta-09.

These two sites, along with a Visitor Center, comprise Minuteman Missile NHS. It is the only NPS unit specifically designated for the Cold War. Congress stated in the park's enabling legislation that Minuteman Missile's purpose is "to interpret the historical role of the Minuteman II missile defense system as a key component of America's strategic commitment to preserve world peace and in the broader context of the Cold War."

The structures and landscapes at Minuteman Missile NHS serve as an ideal spot to explore the people, places and stories that illustrate the experience of U.S. Air Force personnel, local landowners, and residents of the Great Plains who worked at or lived around Minuteman Missile sites for the last three decades of the Cold War. The park is located at three areas along a 15-mile stretch of Interstate 90 in western South Dakota. The Visitor Center is located immediately north of I-90, exit 131. The two historic sites which make up the park are four miles (Launch Control Facility Delta-01) and 15 miles (Launch Facility Delta-09) from the Visitor Center.

Minuteman Missile NHS is a recent addition to the National Park System. It was transferred from the U.S. Air Force to NPS in 2002. The site began official operations in fall 2003. As part of ongoing management of the park, this is a critical time to develop a foundation of historical information about groups and individuals associated with the site’s resources and values.

Historians and cultural resource specialists, both NPS and outside the Service, outline the importance of seizing this opportunity to collect oral histories while the stakeholders are available, an opportunity many less recent historic sites do not have.

In 2003, NPS completed The Missile Plains: Frontline of America’s Cold War, Historic Resource Study, Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, South Dakota which can be found online, along with other related studies at the park’s web site:

http://www.nps.gov/mimi/learn/publications.htm The park was automatically listed in the National Register of Historic Places when Congress authorized this unit of the National Park System on November 29, 1999. Follow-up documentation came on May 5, 2005, when the Keeper of the National Register certified a listing for Minuteman Missile National Historic Site. That nomination can be found online at the National Register database, called “NPS Focus,” at: http://focus.nps.gov/nrhp

Research Project – Continue Oral History Project for Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, South Dakota

Oral histories began in 1999 with Dr. Steven Bucklin, University of South Dakota, interviewing former military staff from Delta-1 and Delta-9. The project resumed in 2005 with interviews involving individuals mostly from the local community. These oral histories have already been used in publications and exhibits at the NHS as well as by numerous researchers. Civilian neighbors of the sites, construction workers who built them, activists who opposed them and politicians who relied on them as the backbone of American foreign policy have not been recorded to any great extent. Missileer interviews do not cover all career fields or eras of the active years of the site and its deactivation (1963-1993). These memories are critical to a http://www.nps.gov/mimi/learn/historyculture/launch-control-center-delta-01.htm http://www.nps.gov/mimi/learn/historyculture/launch-facility-missile-silo-delta-09.htm http://www.nps.gov/mimi/learn/historyculture/people.htm http://www.nps.gov/mimi/learn/historyculture/places.htm http://www.nps.gov/mimi/learn/historyculture/stories.htm http://www.nps.gov/mimi/planyourvisit/visitorcenters.htm http://www.nps.gov/mimi/learn/historyculture/launch-control-facility-delta-01.htm http://www.nps.gov/mimi/learn/historyculture/launch-control-facility-delta-01.htm http://www.nps.gov/mimi/learn/historyculture/launch-facility-missile-silo-delta-09.htm http://www.nps.gov/mimi/learn/publications.htm http://focus.nps.gov/nrhp balanced interpretive story. Additionally, as the NHS evolves, there is a need to collect recollections of what the interior of Delta-1 looked like in order to document its appearance towards the latter days of operations.

Participants will receive copies of their interview to review and correct and the completed transcript will be sent to each interviewee. Original transcripts, tapes, and CDs will be cataloged into the museum collections with working copies in the park library. They will also be available on the park’s expanded web page for use by scholars and other interested parties.

The Oral History Project is an urgent necessity for current management as it will examine events while they are still in the recent past and while the individuals who participated in these events are able to provide primary source material from living memory. A historian(s) with demonstrated past performance in conducting oral history interviews will be contracted to perform the interviews and transcriptions.

The completed Oral History Project will include the following elements:

A. Oral history interviews with key decision-making personnel. Because NPS documentation is not complete, oral history interviews will be especially useful in providing living memory to the NHS’s history and extant resources. Eighteen (18) formal oral history interviews will be conducted in person and eight (8) will be conducted by telephone according to professional standards. The list of interviewees is as follows (full names and contact information will be provided following contract award):

Interviewees for Oral History Project

(Regular type (18) = in-person interviews; bold/italic type (8) = telephone interviews)

Former Missileers

1. B.N., Ozark, MO (served on first combat crew at Delta 01 in July 1963)

2. N.P., Washington D.C. (Whiteman AFB, Combat Targeting Officer, 1966-1969)

3. L.H., Box Elder, SD (Cook, 1971-72; Facility Manager; 1971-1992)

4. D.B., Rapid City, SD (Treaty Compliance Officer, START)

5. A.H., Rapid City, SD (needs to be interviewed about START compliance)

6. K.M., Rapid City, SD (Retired in 1992, part of team that ‘safed’ missile silos)

7. J.R., Rapid City, SD (former Facility Manager for Delta 01)

8. R.S., New Underwood, SD (former Facility Manager)

9. J.W., Sacramento, CA (story about warhead falling into silo, 1965-1967)

10. R.C., Watertown, CT (former missileer, knows someone who lost codes grocery shopping at Piggly Wiggly in Spearfish, SD)

11. H.B., Locksheldrake, NY (Astronomical Survey)

12. W.K., Hagerstown, MD (carried ‘football’ for President)

13. M.M., Grand Blanc, MI (START)

Others Associated with the Missile Field

14. S.N., Philip, SD (site neighbor-Delta 01)

15. M.K., Rapid City, SD (protestor)

16. J.L., Luck, WI (Nukewatch)

17. C.S., Breckenridge, CO (former base commander at Ellis AFB, current head of

Association of Air Force Missileers)

Other Priority Interviewees

18. W.P., Stanford, CA (former Secretary of Defense for President Clinton)

19. D.J.R., Washington D.C. (former Secretary of Defense for President G.W. Bush)

20. R.C., McClean, VA (Former Vice President)

21. R.R., Rapid City, SD (Lakota, grew up in U.S. Embassy compounds during Cold War)

22. D.Y.T., Batesland, SD (Lakota, former Tribal Historic Preservation Officer)

23. B.K.S., Kyle, SD (Lakota, AIM, OSPRA)

24. T.D., Washington D.C. (former U.S. Senator for SD, USAF)

25. T.R., Healdsburg, CA (former Secretary of the Air Force, supporter of missile systems)

26. J.C., Plains, GA (former President)

Alternate Interviewees (to be substituted should any of the above not participate)

1. G.C., Philip, SD (local landowner)

2. K.C., Philip, SD (local landowner)

3. E.L., Rapid City, SD (decommissioned sites)

4. W.B., Edmonds, WA (first head of 44th Strategic Missile Wing)

5. P.P., Kailua Kona, HI (Director of Missile Command for SAC)

6. R.B., Rapid City, SD

7. D.W., Rapid City, SD (Security)

8. M.C., Kadoka, SD (Facility Manager)

9. T.H., Kadoka, SD (landowner, Minuteman ICBM Missile Alert Facility E01 by

Kadoka)

10. D.G., Piedmont, SD (Squadron Commander)

11. R.M., Spearfish, SD (missileer)

12. A.P. Jr, Melbourne, FL (missileer)

On the above priority listing of interview candidates, 18 are to be in-person interviews and 8 are to be conducted via telephone. In each case, consent/release forms are to be signed by the interviewees and transcriptions of the interviews will be prepared.

For the 18 in-person interviews, the majority of candidates live in South Dakota, but the remainder are in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, California, and Missouri. Those within an easy driving distance of Philip, S.D., should be invited to the park visitor center for their interviews.

Should any of the 18 in-person interview candidates not participate for whatever reason, candidates from the Alternate Interviewees list will be substituted upon discussion with and concurrence by the Contracting Officer’s Representative. All of the Alternate Interviewees who are selected due to a priority interviewee’s non-participation, will have interviews conducted by telephone (with consent forms signed and transcripts prepared).

Oral history interviews will be digitally recorded, transcripts produced, a digital photograph of each in-person interviewee taken, and assignment of interview rights forms signed. All interviewees will be given an opportunity to review and edit his/her interview transcript over a one-month period. Following correction of the draft transcript, interviewees will be sent a final version of their interview transcript (electronic transmittal is preferred).

Payment will be made upon receipt and acceptance by NPS of final interview transcripts and signed interview release forms up to 80% of contract award total. This can be on a transcript by transcript basis, lumped together in groups, or at the end of the Oral History Project. Within one year of contract award, contractor will provide transcriptions of all oral history interviews for NPS inspection and approval and payment of the final 20%.

B. Submission of final interview transcripts shall be printed on archival-stable paper along with original signed interview release forms. Release forms are to be printed on Minuteman Missile NHS letterhead.

III. General Proposal Outlines

The prospective contractor must formulate a study proposal and itemized cost proposal in response to this Scope of Work. The proposal must describe in detail the investigator's oral history interview strategy, past performance, and qualifications of personnel responsible for completion of the study. Minimally, the proposal must individually address each topic outlined in Section II, above.

The proposal will consist of:

A. Research strategy

1. A description of the methods, techniques, and procedures of conducting the Oral History Project according to professional standards.

2. A planning schedule and matrix identifying key project milestones and associated products pertaining to the project.

3. Following review and correction by interviewees as well as signing the interview release form, transcripts printed on archival paper, photographs of each in-person interviewee, and the signed release forms shall be submitted to NPS.

B. Personnel qualifications

1. The Principal Investigator The Principal Investigator (PI) is responsible for all aspects of managing the proposed study.

The PI must have a M.A. or equivalent in United States History (no exceptions). A level of experience equivalent to a M.A. is acceptable and may be evidenced by a publication record demonstrating a professional level of oral history work and transcript preparation. It is expected that the publication record will reflect an understanding and ability to apply research methodology, and education and experience beyond that of a project historian.

2. Project Historian(s) Although the overall research design, guidance, and responsibility for the completed study lies with the Principal Investigator, the PI may utilize the assistance of project historians (PH) and other project staff at their discretion to accomplish the research. The minimum requirements for a PH are a Bachelor's degree in United States History from an accredited college or university.

3. Standards for consultants Personnel hired or subcontracted for their special knowledge and expertise must carry academic and experiential qualifications in their particular area of expertise. Such qualifications are to be documented by means of vitae attachments when the proposal is prepared and submitted.

C. Price Proposal

The prospective contractor must submit a line-item cost proposal for the project, including the following items:

1. Personnel services

a. Principal Investigator

b. Other personnel

c. Miscellaneous personnel expenses

2. Supplies and equipment

3. Travel

4. Cost of preparing for and conducting interviews, and report transcript preparation

5. Overhead, Indirect, and In-kind costs as applicable

6. Total project cost

The proposal must include a work schedule diagramming the duration of oral history interview work outlined in the research strategy section of the proposal.

IV. Additional Contract Requirements

A. General provisions

1. Prospective contractors should note that the research design submitted by the contractor becomes a binding element of the contract and is expected to be carried out. The work performed and reported must meet the minimum requirements.

2. Within 30 days of award of contract, the contractor shall attend a post-award meeting at Minuteman Missile NHS in Philip, South Dakota, to discuss technical aspects of the contract, provide full names and contact information for interview candidates, and to confirm the planning schedule for the submission of the deliverables.

3. The production of the Oral History Project shall be completed within 12 months of contract award.

B. Report standards/format and submission schedule

The final oral history interview transcripts will be in the latest version of Microsoft Word and include the information required in the specifications listed in Section II, above. It must be typed on 8-1/2 by 11-inch white archival paper. All pages must be numbered. Copies of any photographs (screened for reproduction clarity), maps, drawings, and text must be clean, clear, and legible. The format must comply with the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. In addition, all transcripts must contain the following:

1. Title/Cover page listing the name of the Principal Investigator. If the report is also authored by Project Historians, the title page must identify the author(s) and bear the inscription, "Prepared under the supervision of (name), Principal Investigator."

C. Disposition of data

Before expiration of the twelve-month contract period of performance, the contractor will furnish final interview transcripts printed on archival paper, digital recordings of the interviews, and a compact computer disk or disks containing the final products in latest version of Microsoft Word. All notes, records, maps, drawings, photographs, negatives, slides, digital images, tapes, digital recordings transcripts, and other data acquired during the course of this study will be professionally organized for archival purposes and submitted to the Contracting Officers Representative, to be deposited in the archives of the Minuteman Missile NHS.

D. Progress reports

Quarterly progress reports during the performance of the Oral History Projects are required. The initial due date will be 40 days after contract award. All quarterly reports will be submitted to the Contracting Officer’s Representative, to be named at time of award.

V. Payment

Partial payments may be made up to 80% of the contract award amount. Payments must be based on deliverables accepted by the government (see FAR 52.212-4(a), Contract Terms and Conditions – Commercial Items, Inspection/Acceptance & FAR 52.211-8, Time of Delivery).

Payment requests must be in accordance with the clause titled, Electronic Invoicing and Payment Requirements - Invoice Processing Platform (IPP).

VI. Endorsement Proposals submitted for consideration must be accompanied by a signed cover letter. If the proposal is submitted by an organization it must bear the endorsement of both the Principal

Investigator and a representative of the organization who is empowered to commit the organization to such an undertaking.