Historic Preservation Support Services

The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform historic properties project review as defined in this Performance Work Statement (PWS), section 5 except for those items specified as government furnished property and services. Fort Benning has historic resources that include over 650 historic buildings, most within the Main Post Historic District, that continue to play a vital role in meeting the training and deployment mission of the installation as well as historic housing. Fort Benning has over 3569 archeological sites with 215 eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and 538 sites requiring evaluation for eligibility to the NRHP in Georgia and Alabama, many within an archeological district situated on either side of the Chattahoochee River. In 2016, Fort Benning had almost 2,000 actions reviewed under the NEPA/FB144r system. The objective of this contract is to identify, organize and report installation actions that might affect these resources. This contract will support accurate reporting to the State Historic Preservation Offices of Georgia (GASHPO) and/or Alabama (ALSHPO) during a yearly face-to-face meeting (with quarterly information provided to GASHPO. The information also supports biannual consultation with 13 federally recognized Tribes (Tribes) in face-to-face, government-to-government, good faith exchanges of views and concerns between Fort Benning and the Tribes on effects to Tribal ancestral historic/cultural resources and human remains.