ASM Affiliates Inc.

ASM Affiliates Inc., a Carlsbad, California-based cultural resources management firm, operates as a small business prime contractor (98% of recent awards) providing archaeological surveys, historic preservation documentation, National Historic Preservation Act compliance services, and environmental resource inventories to federal land management and infrastructure agencies across the western United States and Hawaii. The firm competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides; roughly half of recent awards carry that designation, with the remainder issued full-and-open on GSA Schedule vehicles and other federal contract mechanisms.

ASM Affiliates holds a commanding position on two anchor IDIQs that drive its customer concentration and revenue profile. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command Cultural Resources Multiple Award Services Contract, awarded May 30, 2025, carries a $99.99 million ceiling through May 2033 and covers Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah; NAVFAC accounts for 49 awards and $199.3 million in combined potential value (61% of the vendor's recent portfolio by dollars). The Army Corps of Engineers Cultural and Environmental Resources Services MATOC, awarded September 22, 2022, carries a $49 million ceiling through September 2027 and has generated four awards totaling $49.9 million. Beyond these two vehicles, the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (California and Idaho regions combined) represents 77 awards and $7.2 million, and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region has placed 14 awards worth $9.8 million. Across 42 distinct customer agencies, the top five by combined potential value account for 82% of the portfolio.

The vendor's labor footprint on GSA Schedule vehicles spans 17 active categories, ranging from Archaeological Crew I at $65.28 per hour (associate-level, entry experience) to Principal Investigator at $208.33 per hour (PhD, 20 years' experience); no security-cleared positions are offered. SCI-reportable federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold show modest invoicing — $458 thousand across FY2022–FY2024, with peaks in FY2023 ($408 thousand across 3.7 FTEs) and near-zero activity in FY2024. On those SCI-reportable prime records, government-paid rates averaged $116.29 per hour (median), ranging from $54.35 to $192.54 per hour across the percentile spectrum, and the vendor self-performed 97% of contractor hours with minimal subcontractor engagement.

Representative recent prime work demonstrates the capability scope: a $99.99 million NAVFAC IDIQ awarded May 30, 2025 for southwestern cultural resource services; a $49 million USACE MATOC awarded September 2022 for data recovery, geoarchaeological investigations, and monitoring (including a $379,572 delivery order for the Natomas West Drainage Canal project); a $931,820 Forest Service BPA call (April 2023) for 2023 heritage surveys across the Pacific Northwest; a $409,006 Forest Service Mt. Hood archaeological survey (May 2026, Total Small Business set-aside); and a $285,000 Forest Service Malheur National Forest survey (September 2024, Total Small Business set-aside). The firm also operates under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, which anchors 163 task orders worth $24.5 million combined potential value across interior and civilian agencies including the National Park Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Activity has remained flat at 13–14 awards annually from 2022 through 2024, with a sharp drop to five awards in 2025 and one award to date in 2026 — a trajectory suggesting either reporting lag or a shift in business cycle as large IDIQ seats transition to task-order execution. Five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $2.6 million, indicating modest near-term recompete exposure relative to the $99.99 million NAVFAC ceiling and $49 million USACE ceiling still active in the portfolio.

ASM Affiliates operates almost entirely as a prime (98% of awards) with minimal subcontractor engagement. The vendor appears as a subcontractor to Eastern Research Group Inc. (community grants evaluation, November 2025), Environmental Quality Management Inc. (lead removal work, May 2024), Aktarius LLC (archaeological monitoring at a temporary housing site in Hawaii, May 2024), and Trevet-Noreas JV LLC (aircraft mishap assessment and archaeological monitoring, May 2024). The firm's footprint reflects specialization in cultural resource compliance and preservation services rather than broad IT or defense contracting; over forty years of federal experience in western states positions it as a established feeder vendor to large defense and civilian infrastructure prime contractors requiring on-site archaeological expertise and permitting support.

Archaeological, historic preservation, architectural history, and history studies