Archaeological Consultants Of The Carolinas, Inc.

Archaeological Consultants Of The Carolinas Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in Clayton, North Carolina, provides cultural resource management and archaeological surveying services to the federal government as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), competing predominantly under total small business set-asides. The firm is a Subchapter S corporation certified as a self-certified small disadvantaged business and woman-owned small business, with primary work spanning NAICS 541712 (Environmental Consulting Services) and 113110 (Support Activities for Forestry), and PSC codes centered on archaeological and paleontological studies and natural resources conservation.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency-dependent. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 99% of award count and 100% of combined potential value across recent awards. Within USDA, the Forest Service Southern Region (Region 8) dominates with 64 awards totaling $20.9 million in combined potential value, while the Washington Office Acquisitions BPA holder adds one award carrying $50 million in potential value. The remaining federal customer base consists of isolated Army Corps of Engineers and Army Installation Management Command awards totaling $125 thousand combined potential value.

Archaeological Consultants' primary vehicle position is the $50 million single-award Land Management Integrated Resources National Blanket Purchase Agreement (LMIR BPA), awarded by USDA Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions in February 2024 and running through March 2033. Task orders under this vehicle support cultural resource surveys across national forests in the southeastern United States. The vendor also holds multiple subordinate archaeological survey BPAs issued by Forest Service Southern Region, including a $1.4 million archaeological support services BPA and several narrower regional archaeological survey agreements. Recent representative work includes a $232,877 firm fixed-price task order awarded April 2026 for post-harvest archaeological surveys and National Register evaluations on timber stands affected by Hurricane Helene damage; a $268,517 total small business set-aside call in June 2023 for cultural resources survey of approximately 3,739 acres proposed for silvicultural treatments on the Enoree Ranger District, Sumter National Forest; and a $179,960 task order in June 2024 for comprehensive cultural resources survey covering 2,226 acres and 1.4 linear miles on the Enoree Ranger District of Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests.

Activity has been sparse and declining. The vendor placed five awards in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026, down from a historical baseline that included two awards in 2022 and three in 2023. Only three awards with combined potential value of $313 thousand reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing minimal near-term recompete risk. The vendor holds one grant sub-award as a sub-recipient to the University of South Carolina under a Department of the Army Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit agreement for archaeological testing and evaluation of ten sites on Fort Liberty Training Land, North Carolina, in support of the Fort Liberty Cultural Resources Management Program.

Archaeological Consultants operates exclusively as a prime contractor across its federal footprint, with no material subcontract or prime teaming relationships visible in recent awards. The firm's capability portfolio centers on intensive pedestrian archaeological surveys, site delineation and Phase II evaluation, heritage assessments, cultural resources inventories, and National Register of Historic Places eligibility determination to support federal land management and historic preservation compliance across southeastern national forests, particularly in South Carolina.

cultural resources investigations, compliance with cultural resource regulations