Maintain Digital Research Collection and Provide Oral History Support

The Office of History (CEHO) maintains a rich collection of documents, photographs, and oral history interviews that chronicle the history of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  In the past, the majority of the material accessioned into the office’s Research Collection consisted of textual records—primarily documents, transcripts, photographs, and maps—that needed to be integrated into the office’s existing collection. Nowadays, the majority of its records are created and transmitted electronically. Moreover, in a bid to make its historical content available to a wider audience, the office is digitizing significant portions of its holdings. Consequently, CEHO requires the services of a support contractor to help the office manage and grow its Digital Research Collection (DRC) and to organize and permanently store a wide variety of digital content.

CEHO also requires the services of a contractor to process, arrange, evaluate, track, and accession interviews into its oral history collection. Those interviews include: more than 25 interviews conducted about USACE’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, 14 interviews about Task Force Barrier’s and South Pacific Border (SPB) District’s efforts to replace and build the border wall, 5 Career and Subject interviews (hereafter Career interviews), 14 interviews conducted for the preparation of the Los Angeles District Update History, 2 interviews about the Wilmington Distract, and approximately 10 interviews with participants in Task Force Essayons, Middle East District, and Transatlantic Afghanistan District.

See the Attached Combined Synopsis Solicitation and Performance Work Statement for additional information.