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Performance Work Statement

Historical Support Services

1 Introduction The Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (CEHO), located in Alexandria, Virginia, is responsible for collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating the history of the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). To accomplish its mission, CEHO’s staff of historians, curators, archivists, and editors conducts the following activities: research, write, and review a wide variety of historical products; collect, arrange, catalog, and preserve historical documents, photographs, and artifacts; and conduct a wide-ranging oral history program. To advance its mission, CEHO requires a historical services contractor to support CEHO; and other USACE divisions, districts, centers, and labs across the country; the history and museum staffs at the U.S. Army Engineer School at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri; and the Center of Military History located in Washington, DC.

1.1 Scope

The Contractor shall furnish all personnel, management, supervision and materials necessary to provide historical support services. A list of proposed labor categories is provided in the attached Appendix. Anticipated tasks associated with this request include but are not limited to the following:

· Conduct primary and secondary research at archives, libraries, and other repositories that the Government may designate;

· Write or review an essay, study, or monograph on a specified topic or subject related to the history of the Corps of Engineers;

· Provide graphic design, layout, and publication support services for historical products such as reports, brochures, books, and posters

· Provide editorial and indexing services;

· Provide archival support services for both analog and digital content, including the review, arrangement, conservation, and description of historic research materials, including documents, photographs, audio recordings, and electronic data;

· Provide library cataloguing and metadata services

· Conserve and digitize a wide variety of historic materials including photographs, slides, maps, documents, audio recordings, motion film, and various forms of digital audio;

· Furnish museum support services, including collection management, preservation, and conservation, and producing historical displays;

· Provide curatorial support services including object inventories; basic preservation and conservation; label, rehouse, and photograph historic artifacts; and update catalog records in the Office of History’s collection of historic artifacts;

· Propose, design, and construct museum exhibits

· Provide library services, including collection development, weeding, cataloging, metadata, and arranging;

· Conduct, transcribe, and accession oral history interviews into CEHO’s oral history collection; and

· Manage archaeological field studies to include archaeological or cultural studies field work and report preparation.

1.3 Location and Supplies

The Government anticipates that much of the work required will be in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. However, USACE districts, divisions, and labs across the country may also utilize this contract vehicle. Services provided in the District of Columbia, as well as neighboring jurisdictions in Maryland and Virginia, including CEHO’s office in Alexandria, Virginia, will be considered local and the Contractor will not be reimbursed for travel expenses in those areas. The cost of travel outside of the Washington metropolitan area will be set forth in each task order and reimbursed in accordance with the Joint Travel Regulations. Unless otherwise noted, the Contractor will provide all of the equipment necessary to perform the work under this contract. The cost of material and ancillary support costs (copying, shipping documents, etc.) shall be established in each Delivery Order. Close contact between the Contractor and the COR during each assignment is required to ensure prompt and acceptable accomplishment of work.

2.0 General Requirements

This section describes the general requirements for this effort. The following sub-sections provide details of various considerations on this effort.

2.1 Non-Personal Services

The Government shall neither supervise Contractor employees nor control the method by which the Contractor performs the required tasks. Under no circumstances shall the Government assign tasks to, or prepare work schedules for, individual contractor employees. It shall be the responsibility of the Contractor to manage its employees and to guard against any actions that are of the nature of personal services, or give the perception of personal services. If the Contractor believes that any actions constitute, or are perceived to constitute, personal services, it shall be the Contractor's responsibility to notify the Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO) immediately.

2.2 Business Relations

The Contractor shall successfully integrate and coordinate all activity needed to execute the requirement. The Contractor shall manage the timeliness, completeness, and quality of problem identification. The Contractor shall provide corrective action plans, proposal submittals, timely identification of issues, and effective management of subcontractors. The Contractor shall seek to ensure customer satisfaction with and professional and ethical behavior by all contractor personnel.

2.3 Contract Administration and Management

The following subsections specify requirements for management and administration of contracts and personnel.

2.3.1 Contract Management

The Contractor shall establish clear organizational lines of authority and responsibility to ensure effective management of the resources assigned to the requirement.

2.3.2 Contract Administration

The Contractor shall establish processes and assign appropriate resources to effectively administer the requirement. The Contractor shall respond to Government requests for contractual actions in a timely fashion. The Contractor shall have a single point of contact between the Government and contractor personnel assigned to support contracts or task orders.

2.3.3 Personnel Administration

The Contractor shall provide the following management and support as required. The Contractor shall provide for employees during designated Government non-work days or other periods where Government offices are closed due to weather or security conditions. The Contractor shall maintain the currency of their employees by providing initial and refresher training as required to meet the PWS requirements. The Contractor shall make necessary travel arrangements for employees. The Contractor shall provide necessary infrastructure to support contract tasks. The Contractor shall provide administrative support to employees in a timely fashion (time keeping, leave processing, pay, emergency needs).

2.4 Subcontract Management

The Contractor shall be responsible for any subcontract management necessary to integrate work performed on this requirement and shall be responsible and accountable for subcontractor performance on this requirement. The prime contractor will manage work distribution to ensure there are no Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) considerations. Cross teaming may or may not be permitted.

2.4.1 Subcontracting Requirements

A small business set-aside is anticipated for this requirement: In accordance with FAR 52.219-14 Limitations on Subcontracting, the Contractor shall perform at least 50 percent of the required services.

2.5 Contractor Personnel, Disciplines, and Specialties

The Contractor shall accomplish the assigned work by employing and utilizing qualified personnel with appropriate combinations of education, training, and experience. The Contractor shall match personnel skills to the work or task with a minimum of under/over employment of resources. The Contractor shall ensure the labor categories as defined in the Labor Categories document (see Appendix A), labor rates, and man-hours utilized in the performance of each task order issued hereunder will be the minimum necessary to accomplish the task.

2.6 Location of Work

The Government anticipates that much of the work required will be in the Washington metropolitan area. Services provided in the District of Columbia, as well as in the neighboring jurisdictions in Maryland and Virginia, including the Office of History’s office in Alexandria, Virginia, will be considered local and the Contractor will not be reimbursed for travel expenses in those areas. The cost of travel outside of the Washington metropolitan area will be set forth in each task order and reimbursed in accordance with the Joint Travel Regulations. Unless otherwise noted, the Contractor will provide all of the equipment necessary to perform the work under this contract. The cost of material and ancillary support costs (copying, shipping documents, etc.) shall be established in each Delivery Order. Close contact between the Contractor and the COR during each assignment is required to ensure prompt and acceptable accomplishment of work.

2.7 Travel / Temporary Duty (TDY)

Travel to government facilities or other locations may be required and will be specified in the individual task order PWS. All travel requirements (including plans, agenda, itinerary, or dates) shall be pre-approved by the Government (subject to local policy procedures), and travel is on a strictly cost reimbursable basis. Costs for travel shall be billed in accordance with the regulatory implementation of Public Law 99-234 and FAR 31.205-46 Travel Costs.

3.0 Performance Requirements

The following section specifies the Performance Objectives and Performance Elements for the contract.

3.1 Historical Support Services

3.1.1 The Contractor shall host a task order kickoff meeting for each task order issued under this contract.

The task order kickoff meeting will be a conference call between USACE and Contractor to discuss schedule and to review document availability and roles. Meeting will be held within five (5) business days after task order award as designated by the Government.

3.1.2 The Contractor shall develop and provide a draft and final work plan for the task order.

The Contractor shall prepare draft and final work plans that describe the processes for executing each task order. The Contractor shall manage each task order in accordance with the work plan to assure that all services are performed, reviewed, and provided in a manner that meets professional quality standards. Also included in each task order will be one conference call to discuss USACE comments on the draft work plan.

The draft work plan will be required to be provided to USACE within five (5) business days after kickoff meeting. USACE will have five days to review the plan. The Contractor will submit a final work plan within five days of receiving USACE’s comments.

3.1.3 The Contractor will conduct primary and secondary research at archives, libraries, and other repositories that the Government may designate.

Based on that research, the Contractor may survey an assigned body of records and produce an inventory of those records to include: notes on the size of the collection; description of the types of records in the collection and their condition; and an assessment of the historic value of the collection. Where applicable the Contractor may be instructed to obtain paper or digital copies of those records or the applicable finding aids to be accessioned into the CEHO Research Collection. The Contractor may conduct research in assigned repositories to obtain visual materials (e.g., photographs, maps, plans and drawings, film, videotape, slides) and provide paper, film, or high resolution digital copies along with the applicable captions, credits, and a descriptive metadata entry for each file. The digitization standards for all materials produced under the resulting contract will be specified in the individual task orders.

3.1.4 The Contractor will research and write an essay, study, or monograph on a specified topic or subject related to the history of the Corps of Engineers.

The narrative shall be comprehensive, analytical, and balanced. It shall be written in a clear, crisp style attractive to the general public, shall reflect the careful research and thought necessary to find acceptance in the scholarly community, and shall include the appropriate footnotes, glossary, index, and bibliography. Where appropriate, in addition to the text, products will include film, paper, or high resolution digital copies of proposed photographs, maps, and illustrations, complete with captions and credits and a metadata entry for each digital file. For digital images, the minimum resolution/size will be 600 ppi at four by six inches. The digitization standards for all materials produced under the resulting contract will be specified in the individual task orders. When necessary, the Contractor will also provide the necessary photo releases for use of those images by the Government.

3.1.5 The Contractor will provide graphic design, layout, and publication support services for historical products such as reports, brochures, books, and posters.

Adhering to industry standards, the Contractor will perform desktop publishing and layout to produce innovative, attractive, and inviting designs for the various products. Larger projects, such as book-length manuscripts, are anticipated to contain prefatory material (foreword, preface, etc.), manuscript text, end notes, bibliography, and appendices. Some products will require the Contractor to design and produce maps, charts, or diagrams based on original sources in a standard, publication-wide format. For each product, the Contractor will produce a final electronic package that conforms to all current industry-standard specifications for printing and publication (including web publishing). The Contractor may also be required to format new or existing layouts for e-books. The Contractor may also be tasked with publishing historical products.

3.1.6 The Contractor will provide an array of editing services to improve written products that range from image captions and credits to book-length manuscripts.

Services requested may include substantive editing of written works of history with the goal of maintaining an author’s voice while at the same time identifying inconsistencies, logical faults, information gaps, or other errors in the substance of the work; clarifying language or organization of the narrative; and conforming the work to accepted style guidelines. For other projects, the Contractor may be tasked only with proofreading and copyediting—applying consistent style and usage; correcting spelling, grammatical, typographical, and other obvious errors; and basically ensuring a clean manuscript. Services may be tasked at a level falling anywhere along this range of editing services and may apply to any type of historical product produced by the Office of History or other USACE elements.

3.1.7 The Contractor will provide archival support services for both analog and digital collections, including the review, arrangement, conservation, and description of historic materials such as documents, photographs, audio recordings, and electronic data for accession into USACE historical holdings such as the Office of History’s Research Collection.

Materials to be inventoried and accessioned may include paper, photographs, or electronic records. Where applicable, the Contractor will prepare finding aids in accordance with professional standards and of sufficient detail and clarity to describe the collection and promote historical research. New material may be added to CEHO’s historical holdings as separate collections or may be integrated into its existing file architecture. In the case of electronic records, the documents will be arranged and stored on CEHO’s shared drive and backed up on another storage medium. Paper records and photographs will be arranged and stored in archival containers.

The contractor will be responsible for arranging and describing born-digital archival materials in accordance with professional standards and practices to ensure the long-term preservation of collections. Contractors will screen out restricted, personal, classified and proprietary information such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, classified data, medical records, etc. in digital archival files and will create and/or maintain metadata.

3.1.8 The Contractor will digitize a variety of material including photographs, slides, documents, monographs, maps, motion picture film, and audio recordings.

The Contractor will also transfer existing digital material to new digital formats. All digitization formats, as well as the required resolution, will be established in the individual task orders. The Contractor will also provide the Government with the necessary metadata to enable the material to be accessioned into the Office of History’s Research Collection.

3.1.9 The Contractor will provide curatorial support services including: conduct object inventories; perform basic preservation and conservation; label, rehouse, and photograph historic artifacts; and update catalog records in the Office of History’s collection of historic artifacts.

The Contractor will also create and update artifact records and perform research where necessary. In addition, the Contractor may be called upon to move artifacts to new storage locations and to construct a proper storage environment for museum artifacts.

3.1.10 The Contractor will develop historical displays (both physical and online virtual exhibits) using artifacts, images, and text from CEHO’s Historical and Research collections and augmented with material from other collections as required.

The Contractor will conduct the necessary historical and archival research, select appropriate artifacts and photographs, and prepare the necessary explanatory text, captions, credits, and visual material. After review and approval by the Government, the Contractor will design, produce, and install the exhibit. Installation may include the fabrication of display cases, mounts, signage, and lighting.

3.1.11 The Contractor will prepare for and conduct oral history interviews on the entire career or some specific portion of the career (such as an assignment) of an active duty or retired engineer officer or civilian employee or someone significant to the history of the Corps of Engineers.

Interviews will be conducted following procedures outlined in the U.S. Army Center of Military History’s guide to oral history and CEHO’s oral history procedures. All interviews will be conducted using high quality digital recorders with external XLR microphones and will be recorded in uncompressed WAV format. Contractor will prepare a list of key words to facilitate the preparation of the transcript.

3.11.12 The Contractor will develop web pages or web sites related to Army engineer history using industry standard software tools that are compatible with existing web sites maintained by the Office of History or other government entities.

The web-based content, including text, illustrations, graphics, and audio-video material, may be prepared using government- or contractor-supplied information. The pages and sites will be well organized, visually appealing, and easy to use. The formats and specifications for web pages or sites produced under the resultant contract will be specified in the individual delivery orders.

3.11.13 The Contractor will provide library services for CEHO’s book and print collections.

The contractor will review CEHO/USACE monograph and print collections to assess relevance to the collections, catalogue and accession as required and affix metadata to digital work processes. The contractor may also be required to make suggestions for collection development.

3.11.14 The Contractor will provide archaeological support services to include field work and the preparation of detailed resources reports.

The contractor will conduct and/or supervise archaeological or cultural resources field work and prepare in-depth reports documenting anthropological/archeological resources and compliance with federal cultural resource directives.

3.2 Program/Project Management.

3.2.1 The Contractor shall participate in meetings for program management as deemed necessary by either party.

At the discretion of the Government, the meetings may be held virtually, at Headquarters USACE in Washington, D.C., or at the Humphreys Engineer Center in Alexandria, Virginia, or at another facility that the Government may designate.

3.2.2 The Contractor shall provide program management for work assigned.

Program management will include a single POC with contracting authority. The Contractor must have the ability to handle multiple task orders and subcontractors simultaneously as well as the ability to hire and retain personnel associated with work assigned.

4.0 Special Requirements

This section describes the special requirements for this effort. The following sub-sections provide details of various considerations on this effort.

4.1 Security

4.1.1 Access and General Protection/Security Policy and Procedures All contractor and all associated sub-contractor employees shall comply with applicable installation, facility, and area commander installation/facility access and local security policies and procedures (provided by government representative). The Contractor shall also provide all information required for background checks or background investigation and to meet installation/facility access requirements to be accomplished by installation Provost Marshal Office, Director of Emergency Services, or Security Office. Contractor workforce must comply with all personal identity verification requirements as directed by DOD, HQDA, and/or local policy. In addition to the changes otherwise authorized by the changes clause of this contract, should the Force Protection Condition (FPCON) at any installation or facility change, the Government may require changes in contractor security matters or processes.

4.1.2 Operational Security (OPSEC) Standing Operating Procedure/Plan The Contractor shall develop an OPSEC SOP/Plan within 90 days of contract award. The OPSEC SOP/Plan must be reviewed and approved by the requiring activity (RA) OPSEC Officer. The SOP/Plan will include the Government's critical information, why it needs to be protected, where it is located, who is responsible for it, and how to protect it. In addition, the Contractor shall identify an individual who will be an OPSEC coordinator.

4.1.3 OPSEC Training.

All new contractor employees will complete Level I OPSEC Training within 30 calendar days of their reporting for duty. Additionally, all contractor employees must complete annual OPSEC awareness training. The Contractor shall submit certificates of completion for each affected contractor and subcontractor employee to the COR or to the contracting officer (if a COR is not assigned), within 5 calendar days after completion of training. OPSEC awareness training is available at the following websites: <https://www.iad.gov/ioss/> or <http://www.cdse.edu/ catalog/operations-security.html>; or it can be provided by the RA OPSEC Officer in presentation form which will be documented via memorandum.

4.1.4 Pre-screen candidates using E-Verify Program

The Contractor must pre-screen its employment candidates using the E-verify Program website <http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify> to meet the established employment eligibility requirements. The Contractor must ensure that the candidate has two valid forms of government-issued identification prior to enrollment to ensure the correct information is entered into the E-verify system. An initial list of verified/eligible candidates must be provided to the COR no later than 3 business days after the initial contract award. When contracts are with individuals, the individuals will be required to complete a Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, with the designated government representative. This form will be provided to the Contracting Officer and shall become part of the official contract file.

4.2 Quality

This section describes the Quality Control components for this effort. The following sub-sections provide details of various considerations on this effort.

4.2.1 Quality Control

The Contractor shall develop a quality control plan (QCP) and maintain an effective quality control program to ensure services are performed in accordance with the IDIQ contract and this PWS. The Contractor shall develop and implement procedures to identify, prevent, and ensure non-recurrence of defective services. The Contractor’s QCP is the means by which he assures himself that his work complies with the requirement of the contract.

The finalized QCP will be accepted by the Government 30 days after date of the contract award. The Contracting Officer may notify the Contractor of required modifications to the plan during the period of performance. The Contractor then shall coordinate suggested modifications and obtain acceptance of the plan by the Contracting Officer. Any modifications to the program during the period of performance shall be provided to the Contracting Officer for review no later than 10 working days prior to effective date of the change. The QCP shall be subject to the Government’s review and approval. The Government may find the QCP "unacceptable" whenever the Contractor’s procedures do not accomplish quality control objectives. The Contractor shall revise the QCP within 10 working days from receipt of notice that the QCP is found "unacceptable."

4.2.2 Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP)

The Government shall monitor the Contractor’s performance under this contract and each task order in accordance with the Government’s QASP.

5.0 Deliverables

The Contractor shall provide deliverables as described in subsequent task orders. Deliverables shall be specified by the Government. Format and delivery schedule for deliverables are outlined CDRLs and/or as stated in the applicable section of the applicable task order PWS.

The Contractor shall develop and implement procedures to identify, prevent, and ensure non-recurrence of defective services.

Performance Requirements Summary

N/A

Re-perform at no cost to the Government.

APPENDIX

LABOR CATEGORIES

This request anticipates, but is not limited to the following labor categories:

Project Manager

· Must have a master's degree from an accredited college or university in a social science or humanities field.

· Must have five years' experience as project manager of research projects involving historical research and writing and oral history interviews.

· Must have ability to deal effectively and diplomatically with individuals and groups, such as active duty and retired military and civilian personnel, the historical profession, individuals from foreign nations, and the general public.

Supervisory Archivist

· Must have an American Library Association (ALA) accredited Master of Library Science (MLS) or Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) with a concentration in archival studies, library sciences, or a related field. Must have three years’ experience processing archival materials to include: arranging, describing, preserving, and cataloging archival and digital materials and preparing finding aids.

· Must have three years’ experience digitizing a wide variety of historic material and preparing the related metadata.

· Must be familiar with, and able to supervise work in Encoded Archival Description (EAD) including working knowledge of XML-related tools such as Oxygen.

· Must also have three years’ experience working with large quantities of digital records, including image capture, data migration and metadata creation, and converting existing material to digital formats.

· The supervisory archivist must also have a years’ experience overseeing archival operations, supervising archivists, and exercising quality control over projects.

· An undergraduate degree in a related field may be substituted for a master’s degree provided the candidate has five years’ experience processing archival materials, digitizing material, and working with large quantities of electronic records.

· Must provide three finding aids and detailed descriptions of digitization projects for evaluation.

Archivist

· Must have an ALA-accredited MLS or MLIS with a concentration in archival studies, archival management, or records management.

· Required minimum of two years’ experience processing archival collections to include original arrangement, description, and preservation of collections in accordance with professional best practices

· Experience with historical research in order to conduct biographical and historical context research as applied to archival collections

· Two years’ experience digitizing a wide variety of historical materials, including applying metadata to ensure interoperability and discoverability

· Experience with Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and XML-related tools such as Oxygen.

· Must provide two sample finding aids with detailed DACS elements, and which demonstrate historical research and writing ability

· Aptitude for complex, analytical work with excellent attention to detail

· Ability to lift materials weighing up to 20 pounds

Digital Archivist

· Must have an ALA-accredited MLIS with a concentration in digital archiving, or a related field in information management, or Society of American Archivists (SAA) Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) certification

· Demonstrated knowledge of digital preservation standards and best practices for born-digital content

· Knowledge of establishing and maintaining control, arranging and describing born-digital archival materials in accordance with professional standards and practices to ensure the long-term preservation of collections.

· Implement and/or create controlled vocabularies to facilitate arrangement and description

· Ability to screen out restricted, personal, classified and proprietary information such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, classified data, medical records, etc. in digital archival files

· Experience with migration strategies to preserve digital objects

· Ability to obtain/maintain Secret clearance

Librarian (Cataloging and Metadata)

· Must have an ALA-accredited MLS or MLIS degree

· Two years of professional original and copy cataloguing experience in a variety of formats including monographs, audio and visual formats, maps, manuscripts, rare books, etc.

· Knowledge of library automation/cataloging platforms such as EOS, OCLC, Library of Congress classification

· Support the ingest and digitization of USACE publications by ensuring metadata meets standards for interoperability and end-user discoverability

· One year experience with development and/or maintenance of metadata files

· Ability to identify errors in metadata

· Familiarity with common metadata standards, such as MARC, MODS, Dublin Core, etc.

· Aptitude for complex analytical work with excellent attention to detail

· Ability to lift materials weighing up to 20 pounds

· Expertise in handling older, delicate materials

Supervisory Project Historian

· Must have a doctorate in History or closely related field (such as American Studies or Political Science).

· Must have at least five years’ experience in research and writing on the history of the United States military or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

· The supervisory historians must also have two years’ experience overseeing historical research and writing.

· Must have publications and/or papers demonstrating knowledge and experience in conducting research at the National Archives and other government primary source repositories and in writing analytical and narrative historical studies.

· Must provide three writing samples for evaluation.

Project Historian

· Must have a master’s degree in History or closely related field (such as American Studies or Political Science).

· Must have at least five years’ experience in research and writing on the history of the United States military or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

· The supervisory historians must also have two years’ experience overseeing historical research and writing.

· Must have publications and/or papers demonstrating knowledge and experience in conducting research at the National Archives and other government primary source repositories and in writing analytical and narrative historical studies.

· Must provide three writing samples for evaluation.

Senior Historian

· Must have a master’s degree in History or closely related field (such as American Studies or Political Science).

· Must have at least four years’ experience in research and writing on the history of the United States Military or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

· Must have publications and/or papers demonstrating knowledge and experience in conducting research at the National Archives and other government primary source repositories and in writing analytical and narrative historical studies.

· Must provide three writing samples for evaluation.

Historian

· Must have a master’s degree in History or closely related field (such as American Studies or Political Science).

· Must have at least three years’ experience in research and writing on the history of the United States Military or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

· Must have publications and/or papers demonstrating knowledge and experience in conducting research at the National Archives and other government primary source repositories and in writing analytical and narrative historical studies.

· Must provide three writing samples for evaluation.

Historical Researcher

· Must have master’s degree in History or in a related field.

· Must have three years’ experience in conducting historical research in the National Archives, Federal Records Centers, or the Library of Congress.

Historical Research Assistant

· Must have bachelor’s degree in History or in a related field.

· Must have one year’s experience in conducting historical research in the National Archives, Federal Records Centers, or the Library of Congress.

Oral Historian II

· Must have at least a master's degree from an accredited college or university in a social science or related field.

· Must have formal oral history training and demonstrate three years of experience in conducting oral history interviews on topics related to United States military history.

· Must present a list of at least 20 recent oral history interviews and provide examples of five transcripts of interviews conducted within the last five years.

Oral Historian I

· Must have at least a master's degree from an accredited college or university in a social science or related field.

· Must have formal oral history training and demonstrate two year of experience in conducting oral history interviews on topics related to United States military history.

· Must present a list of at least 10 recent oral history interviews and provide examples of five transcripts of interviews conducted within the last two years.

Editor

· Must have a master's degree in History, English, Journalism, or a related field.

· Must have a year of professional editing experience ranging from substantive editing to proofreading and copyediting.

· An undergraduate degree in History, English, Journalism, or a related field may be substituted for a master’s degree provided the candidate has two years of experience in the editorial duties noted above.

Graphic designer

· Must have an undergraduate degree in Graphic Design, Architecture, Art and Design or a closely related specialty.

· Must have three years of professional design and production experience working on products similar to those stipulated in the performance work statement.

· Must also have three years’ experience using Adobe Creative Suite, including the current versions of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Bridge.

· Must provide three design samples for evaluation.

Museum Specialist

· Must have a master’s degree in History, Museum Studies, Archives Management, or in a related field.

· Must have three years’ experience working in the museum or archives environment, including basic care of historic documents or objects, knowledge of preservation materials and procedures, designing displays of historical documents and artifacts, and museum cataloging and administration.

· Must provide three samples of previous historical displays for evaluation.

Archaeologist

· Must have a Masters’ Degree that includes course work in: History of archeology; archeology of a major geographical area, regional archeology, archeological cultures, or sites in a specific part or portion of a major geographical area; theory and methods of archeology, including but not limited to typology, classification, sampling, cultural evolution, diffusion, dating, and analytical techniques; and archeological field school. Six semester hours of related course work in: geography, geology, or cultural geography; history, historiography, or historical archeology; environmental studies; scientific writing (nonfiction English composition); and/or surveying.

· Acceptable related curriculum: degree in anthropology (with emphasis on ethnology, physical anthropology, or scientific linguistics), history, American studies, or a related discipline provided the academic course work was similar to those listed above and included archeological field school

· Four years of experience that demonstrates thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles and theories of professional archeology.

· Field experience should include a combination of experience in archeological survey, excavation, laboratory analysis, and preparation of written materials

· Experience conducting anthropological/archaeological/historical studies of cultural resources

· Ability to supervise field work

· Ability to prepare in-depth reports documenting anthropological/archeological resources and compliance with federal cultural resource directives

Exhibit Designer/Specialist

· Must have a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Museum Studies, Design, Architecture, or closely related field. Must have demonstrable 5 years’ experience designing exhibits for the museum or cultural resource preservation field.

· Must be able to meet all requirements expressed by client to design three-dimensional displays for housing objects, graphics panels, and multi-media components. Must have working knowledge of design and exhibit construction and the appropriate software to demonstrate the design and prepare it for fabrication.

AV Specialist

· Must have a Bachelor Degree and 5 years’ experience designing and constructing audiovisual, interactive, and multimedia programs

· Must be able to write interpretive text for audiovisual program, identify proposed audiovisual equipment types (i.e., LCD screen, computer touchscreen, etc.,) and identify possible source material.

· Must be able to identify and use appropriate software to produce the final AV product in accordance with client wishes.

Exhibit Fabricator

· Must have High School diploma and minimum 10 years’ experience constructing displays in the museum environment with a demonstrable track record or references.

· Must be able to read complete blueprints, construction drawings, apply standard measurements, specifications and instructions, and understand AV hookups and mounting techniques.

· Must be able to apply trims and finishes and install hardware, apply stains, varnishes, paints, and laminates.