Gray & Pape Inc.

Gray & Pape Inc., an SBA-certified Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, provides archaeological survey, cultural resources management, and historic preservation consulting services to civilian federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and through agency Blanket Purchase Agreements.

Gray & Pape's capability portfolio centers on Phase I and Phase II archaeological fieldwork, archival reviews, artifact analysis, site documentation, and historical context studies required to satisfy Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and related federal compliance mandates. The vendor operates across a distributed geographic footprint — recent work spans Lancaster, Massachusetts; Devils Tower, Wyoming; Lowell and Bar Harbor, Maine; Golden, Colorado; Wilmington, Illinois; the Isles of Scilly (United Kingdom); and Alaska's Outer Continental Shelf. Representative recent prime awards include a $366 thousand delivery order from the National Park Service Northeast Region (September 2023) for archaeological inventory at Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine with completion through June 2026; a $518.9 thousand definitive contract from the U.S. Forest Service (August 2023) for Phase I cultural resources survey of up to 962 acres at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois; a $423.9 thousand delivery order from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (September 2021) for coastal and submerged historic property identification on the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf; and a $141 thousand definitive contract from the Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (September 2023) to develop a historical context study of the National Defense Reserve Fleet.

Gray & Pape holds a $1 million GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract (valid through June 2026) that anchors 21 task orders carrying $3.9 million in combined potential value. The vendor also sits on a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA awarded in March 2026 by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions (ceiling value, single award through March 2033), though task-order activity against that vehicle to date has been minimal. More granularly, Gray & Pape was awarded a $600 thousand single-award BPA in March 2026 by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Massachusetts State Office for cultural resources investigations and management services through March 2027, and holds a $1 million single-award BPA with the NRCS West Virginia State Office (awarded November 2024, running through November 2029) under which two task orders have been issued to date ($258.6 thousand for 19 cultural resources surveys across West Virginia and $200 thousand for archival reviews and field investigations at 18 sites).

Customer concentration clusters in the civilian natural-resources and heritage-preservation space. The top five funding agencies account for 48% of recent awards by count and 98% by combined potential value. The Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service Northeast Region leads by award count (9 awards, $2.2 million combined potential value), but the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions dominates by dollar magnitude through the $50 million LMIR BPA. The Department of the Interior National Park Service Northeast and National Office regions collectively represent six awards and $962 thousand combined potential value. The Department of the Interior also includes awards from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Land Management. The Department of Transportation Maritime Administration and the Department of the Navy Chief of Naval Operations each hold one definitive contract. GSA Federal Acquisition Service appears as a contracting office for delivery orders against Gray & Pape's own MAS vehicle.

Gray & Pape competes exclusively as a prime (100% of recent awards), carrying no sub awards in the source data. The vendor's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 16 categories ranging from General Clerk III at $54.84 per hour to Senior Principal In Charge at $203.08 per hour, with specializations including Architectural Historian, Senior Archaeologist, GIS Specialist, and Project Manager roles requiring master's-degree education and multi-year experience in archaeology, history, and cultural resources management — none of the roles require security clearances. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor delivered 1.8 FTEs in FY2023 (invoiced $484 thousand), with zero recorded FTEs in FY2022 and FY2024; median government-paid hourly rates on those contracts ran around $586 per hour, with senior labor pricing through approximately $970 per hour. Activity has grown year over year, with six awards in 2026 (as of mid-July) following two in 2025 and five in 2024. Four awards face completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $285 thousand, presenting modest recompete exposure.

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.