Espinoza Cultural Services, LLC

Espinoza Cultural Services, LLC, doing business as Espinoza Consulting Services, is a Colorado-based HUBZone-certified, women-owned small disadvantaged business that provides archaeological surveys, cultural resource inventories, historic property assessments, and National Historic Preservation Act compliance documentation to federal land management and defense agencies as a prime contractor. The company holds SBA certifications for HUBZone status, Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), and Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB), and is self-certified as a small disadvantaged business and Hispanic American-owned. Espinoza competes predominantly under set-asides across its prime footprint—Total Small Business, HUBZone Sole Source, and 8(a) Sole Source designations recur across recent awards—though several larger master contract vehicles carry no set-aside restrictions.

Espinoza's customer base concentrates heavily on land and resource stewardship agencies. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 79% of recent awards, led overwhelmingly by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region (76 awards, $10.3 million combined potential value). The same customer ranks third by potential value dollars, but the distribution shifts dramatically when accounting for master contract ceilings: the USDA Forest Service Washington Office's $50 million single-award Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA (LMIR) anchors 34% of Espinoza's combined potential value, followed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District's $49.4 million Cultural and Environmental Resources Services Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (MATOC). The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Colorado Region (34 awards, $3.4 million) and the Forest Service Southwestern and Southern Regions (12 and 4 awards respectively, each carrying $14.9 million potential value) round out the top five. Across all 28 distinct customer agencies, the portfolio is almost entirely civilian—Forest Service, BLM, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Western Area Power Administration dominate—with one notable defense outlier: a $2.55 million 8(a) Sole Source contract awarded by the Army Southwest Region in 2021 for cultural resource surveys at Fort Irwin National Training Center in California, running through September 2026.

Capability work spans Phase I and Class III archaeological surveys, site documentation and delineation, test excavations, National Register of Historic Places eligibility determinations, Section 106 NHPA compliance support, and technical report preparation. Representative prime awards include the $14.3 million Croatan Landscape Archeological Survey Project (awarded March 17, 2025, under LMIR with ultimate completion June 30, 2030) covering archaeological survey and cultural resource documentation across Forest Service lands in North Carolina; a $1.1 million cultural resource survey for Waurika Lake, Oklahoma, awarded by the Army Corps of Engineers on May 12, 2025, without set-aside; and a $500 thousand delivery order from the Forest Service Southwestern Region for archaeological survey supporting the Four Forest Restoration Initiative Phase II in Arizona (awarded August 1, 2024, under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule). Smaller discrete surveys and heritage assessments populate the 76 Rocky Mountain Region awards, with ceiling values typically ranging from $15 thousand to $450 thousand per task. Espinoza also performs specialized work—unidentified bone analysis for NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) compliance, heritage database entry and GIS updates, and conservation specialist support for threatened and endangered species programs.

Espinoza holds or operates under three primary master contract vehicles. The $50 million LMIR single-award BPA with the USDA Forest Service (awarded April 4, 2024, running through March 6, 2033) is the largest and most actively ordered against—nine task orders under this vehicle carry $15.9 million in combined potential value and cover archaeological surveys and site documentation across Forest Service locations nationwide. The $49 million Cultural and Environmental Resources Services MATOC with the Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District (awarded September 22, 2022, ultimate completion September 21, 2027) funds archaeological surveys, environmental assessments, and mitigation support across USACE projects, with two task orders totaling $1.1 million combined potential value visible in the source. Espinoza also holds a $7 million single-award BPA with the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region (awarded April 1, 2022, running through March 31, 2027) for forestwide cultural resources surveys. Beyond these, Espinoza maintains positions on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, placing 21 task orders worth $9 million combined potential value, and holds older Forest Service indefinite delivery contracts (AG82CSC160001 and AG82CSC140004) with 24 and 13 task orders respectively, though these appear to be winding down or transitioning toward the new LMIR vehicle.

Activity peaked in 2022 (15 awards) and has declined since—2023 saw only four awards, 2024 recovered to eleven, 2025 dropped to seven, and 2026 shows two awards to date. Across the full dataset (stretching back to 2012), Espinoza has received 169 prime awards totaling $159.6 million in combined potential value, of which only $21.2 million (13%) has been obligated to date, reflecting the structure of master indefinite delivery vehicles with large ceilings but modest near-term drawdown. Eleven awards with combined potential value of $5 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure. The award portfolio is 100% prime contracts and indefinite delivery vehicles—Espinoza operates solely as a prime contractor with no subcontract relationships evident in the source.

Espinoza's labor portfolio on the GSA Schedule spans 28 unique categories ranging from archaeology laborers at $38.25 per hour (associate's degree, one year experience) to QA/QC specialists at $134.88 per hour (master's degree, seven years experience). Mid-range technical roles include Architectural Historians at $56.25–$85.50 per hour, GIS Specialists at $68.63 per hour, and Regulatory Compliance Specialists at $95.64 per hour. No security-cleared positions are offered. The rate spectrum reflects field-intensive archaeology and technical compliance work rather than IT or strategic consulting. Primary NAICS codes are 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services) and 541360 (Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities), with secondary codes covering forestry support, professional services, and archaeological surveying. Across the portfolio, work performance is geographically dispersed—contracts span Arizona, Colorado, California, Mississippi, Georgia, Wyoming, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and other states, with administrative headquarters in La Jara, Colorado.

Environmental Services; Cultural and Natural Resource Management; NRHP Evaluations and Nominations; Ethnographic and History Studies; Buildings Surveys, Evaluations, Assessment; Section 106 and ARPA mitigation; Environmental Assessments; Environmental Impact Statements; Tribal Consultation and TCP Studies; Meeting Facilitation; Remediation; Environmental Studies; Planning Documents; Feasibility Studies; Special Materials Experts; Forestry Management; Accounting; Technical Staffing