Gray & Pape Inc.

Gray & Pape Inc., an SBA-certified Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business based in Cincinnati, Ohio, delivers Phase I and Phase II archaeological fieldwork, cultural resources management, and historic preservation consulting to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and single-award Blanket Purchase Agreements. The vendor competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on most task orders, with recent work split between set-aside and full-and-open delivery orders.

Gray & Pape operates a specialist capability portfolio anchored in Section 106 National Historic Preservation Act compliance work. Concrete representative work includes a $366,193 delivery order from the National Park Service Northeast Region (awarded September 2023, extended through June 2027) for Phase I and Phase II archaeological inventory at Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Patten, Maine; a $518,900 definitive contract from the U.S. Forest Service for Phase I cultural resources survey across 962 acres at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Wilmington, Illinois (August 2023); a $141,021 definitive contract from the Department of Transportation Maritime Administration for a historical context study of the National Defense Reserve Fleet (September 2023 through March 2025); and a $84,894 marine archaeological survey of the USS Jacob Jones wreck site off the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom, awarded by the Chief of Naval Operations (September 2023, extended through September 2025). The vendor's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 16 active categories ranging from General Clerk III at $54.84 per hour through Senior Principal In Charge at $203.08 per hour, with specialist roles including Architectural Historian ($80.20/hr), Senior Archaeologist ($83.32/hr), GIS Specialist ($102.06/hr), and Project Manager ($130.18/hr), reflecting a team-delivery model across archaeological, architectural, and project-management specializations. No security clearances are offered.

Customer concentration is extreme by dollar value. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions anchors 97% of combined potential value through a single $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) multi-award BPA awarded March 17, 2026, with completion through March 6, 2033. By award count, the Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service Northeast Region leads with 14 awards worth $2.3 million combined potential value, followed distantly by the Department of the Army (6 awards, value not specified in source), the Department of Agriculture generally (4 awards), and the National Park Service Northeast and National Offices (3 awards each worth $576 thousand and $386 thousand respectively). These top five customers account for 51% of total award count but span a much larger share of dollar potential; the LMIR ceiling alone dominates the portfolio.

Gray & Pape holds position on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (31 task orders, $4.3 million combined potential value), the LMIR multi-award BPA ($50 million ceiling), a $1 million single-award BPA with USDA NRCS West Virginia State Office running through November 14, 2027 (established November 15, 2024), and a $600,000 single-award BPA with USDA NRCS Massachusetts State Office running through March 26, 2027 (awarded March 27, 2026). The Massachusetts BPA reflects stringent performance requirements, mandating draft reports within 15–40 federal business days and final reports within 7 federal business days of government comments, with a maximum of 5 documentable errors per task order enforced through a Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan.

Activity has accelerated materially. The vendor recorded 1 award in 2022, 8 awards in 2023, 5 awards in 2024, 2 awards in 2025, and 13 awards in 2026 through late September, reflecting growth driven primarily by initial placement on the LMIR vehicle and subsequent task orders. Within the next twenty-four months, nine awards carrying combined potential value of $838 thousand reach ultimate completion and face recompete exposure. Service Contract Inventory data captures only a partial federal-services footprint: SCI-reportable invoiced revenue totaled $484 thousand across 1.8 FTEs in FY2023, with zero FY2022 and FY2024 SCI-reportable revenue in the source, indicating that most of Gray & Pape's federal revenue flows through delivery orders and BPA calls rather than service contracts above the SCI reporting threshold. Government-paid hourly rates on the SCI records showed a median of $586.07 per hour, with rates spanning the 10th percentile ($201.88/hr) through the 90th percentile ($970.25/hr), consistent with senior archaeological and principal-investigator-level delivery.

Gray & Pape operates exclusively as a prime on all 59 awards in the source; zero sub-awards appear. The vendor's primary customer agencies span the Department of Agriculture (NRCS, Forest Service), the Department of the Interior (National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management), the Department of Transportation Maritime Administration, the Department of the Navy, and the General Services Administration. Geographic scope of performance is distributed across the continental United States, with recent work in Massachusetts, West Virginia, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Illinois, and offshore. The vendor maintains a distributed footprint across multiple federal customer regional offices and holds no subcontractor relationships on recent awards.

Gray & Pape, Inc. is a WOSBE with over 35 yrs providing cultural heritage management services nationwide and internationally. We support public- and private-sector clients through state and federal permitting processes, including compliance with NHPA Section 106 and related requirements.

Our multidisciplinary team helps clients achieve project and program goals while identifying and managing cultural heritage responsibilities and opportunities. Services include archaeology, architectural history, preservation planning, maritime archaeology, disaster response and recovery, community engagement, public interpretation, and collaboration with sovereign tribes. We advise international clients on alignment with the Equator Principles and the International Finance Corporation's Environmental and Social Performance Standards.

Our staff meets the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualification Standards (36 CFR 61) and is listed on SHPO consultant rosters.