Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc.

Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Rensselaer, New York, provides Phase 1A and Phase 1B archaeological surveys, cultural resources management, and historic preservation consulting to federal agencies as a prime contractor, operating under small business designations on the majority of its work. The company competes almost exclusively as a small business (98% of its 99 recent awards are primes), with most work set aside for Total Small Business or issued without set-aside designation.

Hartgen's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Northeast Region, which accounts for 68 of 87 tracked awards (78% of award count) and $8.8 million of the $11.7 million combined potential value across all recent prime and sub work. The vendor serves eleven distinct federal agencies, but NRCS dominates the footprint by a wide margin. The Department of the Interior's National Park Service Northeast Region and Eastern Region (NPS) contributes a secondary customer base with 11 awards valued at $273 thousand combined. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 9 (Eastern Region) holds a $1.2 million BPA.

Hartgen holds a portfolio of single-award blanket purchase agreements under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule as the parent vehicle. The largest and most active is the $6 million NRCS Northeast Region BPA for cultural resources and historic preservation services across New York State (awarded October 1, 2024, running through September 30, 2029), which has generated 68 call orders ranging from $960 to $58,260 for Phase 1A/1B archaeological surveys supporting Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) conservation projects and agricultural conservation easements. A second $1 million BPA with NRCS Northeast Region covers Connecticut and Rhode Island cultural resources investigations (awarded November 27, 2023, through November 26, 2028), generating nine call orders to date including a $140,820 Rhode Island cultural resources management call (July 2025) and a $148,060 National Park Service archaeological and historic preservation call (February 2024). Hartgen also holds a $250,000 New Hampshire cultural resources BPA with NRCS Northeast Region (awarded June 26, 2023) and a $365,000 BPA for cultural resources services in New Jersey (awarded August 1, 2026). On the Forest Service side, Hartgen holds a $900,000 single-award BPA for Region 9 historic preservation services (awarded February 3, 2023, through February 2, 2028) and a $250,000 multiple-award Region 9 facilities BPA (awarded March 1, 2022, through February 28, 2032).

Hartgen's work pipeline shows consistent growth over the past five years, climbing from six awards in 2022 to eighteen in 2025, with nine awards in the first two weeks of 2026. The recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is modest — two awards valued at $187 thousand face completion. Hartgen's NAICS footprint is dominated by Environmental Consulting Services (88 of the vendor's 99 awards), with supporting work in Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (5 awards) and Engineering Services (4 awards). Primary PSC codes reflect the archaeological and environmental consulting focus: Special Studies/Analysis–Archeological/Paleontological (29 awards) and Environmental Systems Protection–Environmental Consulting and Legal Support (27 awards).

Hartgen subcontracts infrequently; recent sub work includes archaeological monitoring on an HDR-OBG joint venture architect-and-engineering project (June 2024) and NEPA consulting work under WSP USA Solutions (July 2023). The vendor's federal footprint is concentrated in the Northeast, with primary performance locations in Syracuse, New York and Rensselaer, New York, serving project sites across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. Individual call orders are modest in dollar value but numerous, reflecting Hartgen's specialist role as an on-call cultural resources provider supporting federal land management, conservation, and environmental compliance workflows.

Section 106 Compliance Services; Cultural Resource Management; Phase 1A, 1B, 2, and 3 archeological survey and documentation; Archeological monitoring; Archeological geophysical remote sensing surveys (Ground-penetrating radar and Magnetometry); Historic Resource Survey; National Register of Historic Places nominations; HABS (Historic American Building Survey); HAER (Historic American Engineering Record); HALS (Historic American Landscape Survey); Cultural Landscape Study; Cultural Resource Management Plans; Terrestrial Laser Scanning documentation.