Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc.

Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., a Lexington, Kentucky-based small business Subchapter S corporation, delivers archaeological surveys, cultural resource inventories, and historic preservation compliance services to federal land management and infrastructure agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing predominantly under total small business set-asides on GSA Multiple Award Schedule and indefinite delivery vehicles.

The company's capability portfolio centers on Class III archaeological surveys, cultural resource site investigations and evaluations, historic structure assessments, tribal consultations, and technical reporting to support federal compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act. Representative recent work includes a $71.6 thousand Armpit Cultural Survey for the U.S. Forest Service Idaho Region (April 2026, small-business set-aside BPA call), a $452.6 thousand USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service cultural resources site investigation contract across 16 Tennessee projects (August 2024), a $276.7 thousand 38-project Tennessee cultural resource survey for the USDA Southeast Region (February 2025), and a $263.5 thousand National Park Service archaeological preservation contract at Petersburg National Battlefield (September 2023). Work spans Forest Service regions nationwide (Rocky Mountain, Southern, Eastern, and Idaho regions dominate recent call activity), the Bureau of Land Management across Wyoming and Idaho, the National Park Service, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Bureau of Reclamation.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the U.S. Forest Service Southern Region (17 awards, $18.3 million combined potential value) and Eastern Region (32 awards, $4.3 million), which together anchor the top-customer list by potential value despite the Army Corps of Engineers' Eastern Region and Huntington District leading by award count (68 awards combined, though at sub-$1 million aggregate value). The Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Command places three orders worth $10 million combined, a notable outlier in an otherwise land-management and civil-agency customer base. The top five customers by potential value account for 33% of combined potential value across 276 awards.

CRA holds a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the USDA Forest Service for land management integrated resources services (awarded February 2024, performance through March 2033), a $7.5 million multiple-award BPA with the Forest Service Southern Region for archaeological and cultural heritage services (December 2021, expired December 2026), a $7 million single-award BPA with the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region for regionwide cultural resource surveys (April 2022, performance through March 2027), and a $1 million single-award USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service BPA for Tennessee archaeological site investigations (July 2024, performance through July 2027). Beyond these primary vehicles, CRA places task orders under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (67 task orders, $11.7 million combined potential value) and holds positions on Army Corps of Engineers IDIQs including DACW6903D0005 (31 task orders) and DACW6901D0006 (15 task orders).

Activity has averaged roughly 10–18 awards per year over the past five years; 2024 marked a peak at 18 awards before declining to 4 in 2026 year-to-date. Six awards carrying combined potential value of $762 thousand are scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing modest recompete risk on near-term task orders. The majority of awards carry firm fixed-price, total-small-business set-aside designations; a smaller cohort of full-and-open awards (primarily with the Army Corps of Engineers and Forest Service Eastern Region) lack set-aside language.

CRA's award portfolio is dominated by two NAICS categories: Environmental Consulting Services (108 awards) and Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (73 awards), with Historical Sites (51 awards) and All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services rounding out the portfolio. PSC-level detail shows Special Studies/Analysis—Archeological/Paleontological (169 awards) as the primary code family, followed by Support—Professional Other (18 awards) and Architect and Engineering—General Landscaping (13 awards). The GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 17 categories priced from $43.50 per hour (Archaeological Field/Lab Staff Step I, bachelor's, no clearance) to $149.25 per hour (Project Archaeologist Step II, master's, no clearance), with no security-cleared roles offered. Service Contract Inventory reporting shows minimal SCI-reportable activity—5 records across FY2022–FY2024 in the subcontractor capacity only—suggesting the vendor's federal work sits below the $150 thousand reporting threshold or operates outside the SCI scope; this represents a narrow window into what is a broader federal services footprint.

The corporate structure lists two named entities, both identified as Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. (for-profit Subchapter S corporations), with no material subsidiary capability segregation evident in the award record. Teaming appears minimal; CRA operates as a prime on 275 of 276 awards and as a named subcontractor on one Leidos prime (a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement contract at Ebbings Air National Guard Base, September 2024). The vendor's positioning is as a direct specialist provider to federal land and natural resources agencies rather than as a feeder to larger primes or a heavy user of subcontractors.

Full service archaeological, architectural history, and historic preservation consulting firm.