Non-personal investigative delivery services for the John S. McCain III National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution’s (National Center)’s West Coast Tribal Cultural Landscape Assessment

This will be a sole-sourced RFQ, issued in accordance with FAR Part 13 – Simplified Acquisition Procedures.  This is a Request for Quote (RFQ) to provide non-personal investigative delivery services for the John S. McCain III National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution’s (National Center)’s West Coast Tribal Cultural Landscape Assessment (TCLA). A TCLA is an assessment that identifies best practices and general resources significant to Tribal communities. This may include a guide describing processes for identifying Tribal Cultural Landscapes (TCLs), including common terminology; best practices for consultation; conducting limited case studies identifying TCLs within separate communities; and a final report detailing the process for identifying TCLs. (It is important to note that data collected from the case studies will be treated as sensitive information; individual Tribes will define what data is shared with the National Center and BOEM.) This effort will implement a holistic cultural landscape approach, which integrates environmental science with historical, archaeological, and Indigenous traditional knowledge to provide a robust, transparent, and cost-effective process to document places and resources of past and present significance to affected Tribal Nations. The cultural landscape approach recognizes that places and cultural heritage resources can have different or multiple meanings and levels of significance based on how people from different cultures, times, or backgrounds have interacted with the respective landscapes. Implementing this approach brings equity and visibility to Tribes. It increases the likelihood that cultural heritage resources will be recognized and appropriately respected as decisions are made about offshore wind energy projects' siting and potential effects.