Historical Research Associates, Inc.

Historical Research Associates, Inc., a woman-owned small business headquartered in Missoula, Montana, provides cultural resource management, archaeological surveys, historical research, and expert witness services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) under NAICS 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services) and related codes. HRA operates as a Subchapter S corporation established in 1974 and competes predominantly under total small business set-asides and woman-owned small business designations, with a secondary stream of full-and-open expert witness work for the Department of Justice.

HRA's customer concentration reflects deep specialization in Interior and Justice programs. The top five customer agencies account for 82% of combined potential value, anchored by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation (16 awards, $70.4 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division (56 awards, $18.6 million), the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers National Capital Region Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity (23 awards, $11.5 million), the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region (3 awards, $7.6 million), and the Justice Management Division (5 awards, $4.8 million). Award volume concentrates in expert witness services (88 awards across Justice litigation and environmental claims) and historical research and documentation (69 awards in special studies and analysis). HRA holds three active IDIQs: a $50 million multiple-award Environmental and Cultural Resources Services IDIQ with the Bureau of Reclamation (awarded July 1, 2026, covering 14 states in the Upper Colorado and Missouri Basin Regions); a $18.75 million single-award Environmental and Cultural Resource Services contract with Reclamation (covering the Pacific Northwest Region, issued July 15, 2025, with minimum task order values of $100,000 and maximum individual orders of $5 million); and a $499,985.73 single-award IDIQ with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 for cultural resource investigations across Regions 1 and 8 (awarded December 18, 2024). HRA also places work under The Professional Services Schedule (24 task orders, $1.5 million combined potential value), an Army Corps of Engineers blanket purchase agreement W912HQ21A0002 (8 task orders, $1.2 million), and other Corps and Interior vehicles.

Recent representative awards include a $509,434.63 labor-hours delivery order from the Bureau of Reclamation (September 15, 2026) for an irrigation district title transfer cultural resources survey under total small business set-aside; a $426,370.70 labor-hours delivery order from Reclamation (August 26, 2026) for Steamboat Rock archaeological monitoring under total small business set-aside; a $317,266.08 firm fixed-price modification from Reclamation (April 9, 2026) adding project manager hours to the Boise River Feasibility Study under total small business set-aside; a $366,498 time-and-materials purchase order from the Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division (July 21, 2023) for expert witness services with no set-aside; and a $233,941 total small business BPA call from the Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity (October 1, 2025) for digitization of 93,200 scans of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers historic materials. HRA has established relationships with multiple Interior bureaus, the Corps of Engineers, the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management across cultural resource and environmental compliance work.

Activity has grown from ten awards in 2022 to twenty-two in 2024, with seven awarded in 2025 and fourteen in 2026 year to date. Sixteen awards (combined potential value $7 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. HRA operates as a subcontractor on cultural resource and historical consulting work to Environmental Management & Planning Solutions LLC (four sub-awards for cultural resources surveys, monitoring, and consulting across Bureau of Reclamation and Forest Service programs), Parsons Government Services Inc. (one sub-award for cultural resources services), Doyon Management Services LLC (one historian sub-award at Fort Kodiak, Alaska), and EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc., PBC (one cultural surveys sub-award), representing roughly 3% of the total award footprint. Service Contract Inventory data captures minimal reportable activity (32 records, 25 as prime, 7 as sub) with near-zero invoiced revenue in the SCI dataset and low FTE trajectory (1.9 FTEs in FY2024, 1.4 in FY2025), reflecting that most HRA work is priced firm fixed-price or labor-hour rather than cost-reimbursable time-and-materials. HRA's capability portfolio centers on National Environmental Policy Act documentation, endangered species assessments, archaeological and historical surveys, cultural landscape inventories, historic structure assessments, ethnographic studies, interpretive content development, and expert witness testimony supporting federal litigation and agency compliance obligations across the Pacific Northwest, Upper Basin, and nationally.

HRA provides consulting services for public and private clients in cultural resource management (CRM), litigation support, and historical research. HRA has 21 Archaeologists who meet the Secretary of the Interior's professional qualification standards in Archaeology, 18 Historians who meet the qualification standards in History, and 6 Architectural Historians and Preservationists who meet the qualification standards in Architectural History. HRA's support staff includes two certified interpretive planners, GIS specialists, cultural resource laboratory specialists, information technology specialists, digital interpretation specialists, desktop publishers, and editors. Our company-wide computer network and in-house production capabilities enable us to deliver timely, competitive, and professional research services. Federal compliance projects (NHPA, NEPA, SEPA, 4(f) etc.), inventory and resource recordation.