ASM Affiliates Inc.

ASM Affiliates Inc., a small-business cultural resources management firm based in Carlsbad, California, operates as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) on federal archaeological surveys, historic preservation documentation, and environmental compliance work for land management and infrastructure agencies nationwide. The firm competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides; roughly two-thirds of recent prime awards carry that designation, with the remainder full-and-open.

ASM Affiliates holds three major federal vehicle positions anchoring its work: a $99.9 million indefinite-delivery Cultural Resources Multiple Award Services Contract with Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) awarded May 2025 through May 2033, a $49 million Cultural and Environmental Resources Services Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) with the Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District through September 2027, and a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources BPA with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service established August 2026 through March 2033. These three vehicles alone carry combined potential value exceeding $198 million and structure the majority of ASM Affiliates' customer reach. The firm also places 166 task orders against the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and holds smaller IDICs with Navy regional commands.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward defense and Interior. The top five funding agencies account for 52% of awards by count but 71% of combined potential value. NAVFAC dominates dollars ($199.3 million across 49 awards), followed by the Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District ($49.9 million across 4 awards). The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management California Region and Idaho Region each account for roughly 39 awards but only $3.4–3.9 million combined potential value—a pattern of numerous small task orders. The Marine Corps accounts for 53 awards ($3.8 million), and the broader Department of the Navy carries 39 awards ($367 thousand). The concentration signal is bifurcated: NAVFAC and Army Corps anchor most dollars through large IDICs and high-value delivery orders; BLM and Forest Service drive award frequency but with lower individual task order ceilings.

Representative recent prime work includes a $379,572 Army Corps delivery order (September 2023) for Task 6 data recovery and geoarchaeological investigations on the Natomas West Drainage Canal Cultural Resources Inventory project in Sacramento County, California; a $409,006 Forest Service BPA call (May 2026) for Mt. Hood National Forest East Zone heritage surveys in Sandy, Oregon; a $285,000 Forest Service BPA call (September 2024) for Upper Bear Lake archaeological survey services within the Malheur National Forest in John Day, Oregon; and a $1,752,745 Bureau of Reclamation labor-hour contract (March 2022, extending through March 2027) for cultural resource support services under the San Joaquin River Restoration Program. Awards span archaeological surveys, Class III cultural inventories, Section 106 National Historic Preservation Act compliance, geoarchaeological investigations, historic property determinations of eligibility, archaeological monitoring during construction, and GIS and drone documentation services.

ASM Affiliates operates as a prime on 412 of 419 recent awards (98%), with only seven sub-awards in the portfolio. Across SCI-reportable service contracts, the firm self-performs substantially all work (average sub-hours share 2% with only one named subcontractor), indicating a model built on direct delivery rather than subcontracting. The limited sub-award detail shows ASM Affiliates performing archaeological monitoring and site labor under primes including Eastern Research Group, Aktarius LLC, Environmental Quality Management Inc., Trevet-Noreas JV, and EA Engineering Science and Technology. Activity has remained relatively stable year-over-year (14 awards in 2022, 13 in 2023, 14 in 2024), with notable slowdown in 2025 and 2026 (5 and 4 awards respectively in incomplete years), though the $50 million Forest Service BPA award in August 2026 and the $99.9 million NAVFAC IDIC in May 2025 represent major vehicle wins that will drive future task-order volume. Only six awards (combined potential value $2.7 million) face completion in the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete pressure.

The GSA Schedule portfolio includes seventeen active labor categories spanning archaeological crew ($65.28/hr, associate degree, one year experience) through Principal Investigator roles ($208.33/hr, PhD, twenty years experience). Mid-range pricing clusters around senior archaeologist ($130.55/hr) and project manager ($138.17/hr) positions, both requiring master's degrees and ten to twelve years of experience. No security-cleared roles are offered. SCI-reported invoiced revenue totaled $1.4 million across FY2022–FY2025 (FY2023 peak at $408 thousand), with government-paid median rates around $116.29/hr and a spectrum from $54.35/hr (entry field crew) through $192.54/hr (senior analyst roles). FTE delivery on SCI contracts ranged from 0.1 to 3.7 FTEs annually, indicating light staffing on SCI-reportable work relative to the firm's overall federal footprint—a signal that most ASM Affiliates work sits below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold or is structured as firm-fixed-price delivery orders rather than labor-hour pricing.

Capability concentration reflects pure-play archaeological and cultural resources focus: NAICS 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services) dominates with 174 awards, supplemented by 105 awards under NAICS 541690 (Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services) and 64 under NAICS 541600 (Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities). PSC code R425 (Special Studies/Analysis—Archeological/Paleontological) carries 174 awards; PSC R420 (Special Studies/Analysis—Historical) adds 64 awards. The portfolio carries no IT, engineering, logistics, or administrative support work; ASM Affiliates operates in a narrow but deep horizontal slice of federal procurement serving agencies' statutory obligation to assess and preserve cultural resources on public lands and federal construction sites.

Archaeological, historic preservation, architectural history, and history studies