Grand River Archaeological Inc.

Grand River Archaeological Inc., doing business as Grand River Institute, operates as a small business prime contractor delivering Class III cultural resource inventories, paleontological excavation, and National Register of Historic Places nomination services to federal land management agencies, with 100% of its recent award footprint held as prime contracts under total small business set-asides. The Grand Junction, Colorado-based firm is structured as a partnership or limited liability partnership and competes exclusively under the total small business set-aside category across its federal portfolio.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on pedestrian archaeological surveys, cultural site identification and documentation, artifact recording, feature mapping, and comprehensive environmental compliance reporting in support of federal land management activities. Representative recent work includes a $80,950 Class III inventory across 1,619 acres in Rio Blanco County, Colorado for the BLM White River Field Office (awarded February 2026, due December 31, 2026), a $63,000 National Register of Historic Places nomination for fourteen rock art sites in Big and Little Dominguez Canyons near Grand Junction for the BLM Colorado Region (awarded September 2025, due September 30, 2026), and a $110,132 Class III inventory across 5,006 acres in Rio Blanco County for the BLM White River Field Office (awarded March 2024, due January 31, 2025). The vendor also performs paleontological excavation work, as evidenced by a $6,695 contract with the BLM Colorado Region for paleontological excavation in Meeker, Colorado (completed December 2023).

Customer concentration is heavily tilted toward the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, which accounts for all but one award across the recent footprint. The BLM Colorado Region (10 awards, $409 thousand combined potential value) and BLM Idaho Region (9 awards, $692 thousand combined potential value) together represent 62% of the award count. The single outlier is a recently awarded $50 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions for Land Management Integrated Resources services, which flips the potential-value ranking decisively — the USDA vehicle alone represents 97% of combined potential value across the entire portfolio, while all BLM purchase orders total approximately $1.2 million. The vendor holds an active SAM.gov registration dating to 2003 and maintains Colorado permits for archaeological investigations.

Activity has been episodic rather than trending: two awards in 2022, four in 2023, three in 2024, three in 2025, and two in 2026 to date, with a combined potential value of $51.4 million across thirty-four total awards. Only two awards face completion within the next twenty-four months, representing $144 thousand in combined potential value and minimal recompete pressure in the near term. The June 2026 USDA Forest Service BPA with an eight-year performance period (June 2, 2026 through March 6, 2033) and $50 million ceiling anchors the vendor's forward pipeline and represents a material expansion beyond its historical BLM focus into nationwide USDA land management work. Primary NAICS coding spans Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (14 awards) and Environmental Consulting Services (13 awards), with PSC framing dominated by Special Studies/Analysis — Archeological/Paleontological (28 awards).