Historical Research Associates, Inc.

Historical Research Associates, Inc. (Corporate Headquarters Division, doing business as Historical Researchassoci) is a woman-owned small business headquartered in Missoula, Montana, that provides cultural resource management, historical research, expert witness services, and archaeological consulting to federal agencies as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards). HRA was established in 1974 and operates as a Subchapter S corporation under NAICS 541620 (Environmental Consulting Services), with a secondary NAICS footprint in 541715 (Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities) and legal services codes reflecting its litigation-support work.

HRA's customer base concentrates heavily in Interior and Justice agencies. The top five funding agencies account for 48% of awards by count: the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division leads by far (56 awards, $18.6 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers National Capital Region Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity (23 awards, $11.5 million), and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation (14 awards, $69.5 million). The Reclamation contract represents the largest single dollar concentration, anchoring the vendor's portfolio and reflecting deep expertise in Pacific Northwest water-resource project support. When ranked by potential value, Reclamation dominates the top tier, while DOJ ENR consistently places work through discrete expert witness task orders that aggregate to substantial volumes over multi-year periods. The combined top five customers account for 82% of potential value across the portfolio.

Work spans civil litigation support, cultural resource inventories, archaeological surveys, NEPA documentation, cultural landscape assessments, historical research, exhibit design, and archival digitization. Representative prime awards include a $3.88 million time-and-materials expert witness services contract from DOJ Environment and Natural Resources Division (awarded August 2021, ultimate completion February 2028), a $50 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract from the Bureau of Reclamation for Environmental and Cultural Resources Services across the Upper Colorado and Missouri Basin Regions (awarded July 2026), and an $18.75 million single-award IDIQ from the Bureau of Reclamation for environmental and cultural resource services across the Pacific Northwest Region (awarded July 2025, with two delivery orders issued to date totaling roughly $195,000). HRA also holds a $7 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Army Corps of Engineers National Capital Region for historical support services (established 2021, through 2026) and a $7.5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S. Forest Service for cultural heritage services across Regions 6 and 10. A newer single-award $499,985.73 IDIQ from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 for cultural resource investigations across Regions 1 and 8 (awarded December 2024, ultimate completion December 2027) supports on-demand archaeological and historical work.

HRA's award portfolio is dominated by expert witness services (87 awards under PSC code Support—Professional: Expert Witness) and historical/archaeological special studies (69 awards under PSC Special Studies/Analysis—Historical, plus 39 under Archeological/Paleontological). These two service lines together represent the majority of the vendor's federal posture. Set-aside posture is characteristic: HRA competes predominantly under Total Small Business and Woman-Owned Small Business set-asides, with full-and-open expert witness awards to DOJ representing the exception. Award activity has grown from 10 awards in 2022 to 22 in 2024, though 2025 showed a dip to 7 and 2026 year-to-date (as of mid-July) reached 9 awards. Fifteen awards with ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $6.2 million and represent recompete exposure.

On the subcontractor side, HRA performs sub work under Environmental Management & Planning Solutions LLC (six named sub-awards from 2023 to 2024 covering cultural resources survey, monitoring, and consulting) and Parsons Government Services Inc. (one sub-award in November 2024 for cultural resources services). A sub-award from June 2025 was issued by an entity listed only as "EMARIS" for historical and archaeological research. HRA's own subcontracting activity on prime contracts is minimal: Service Contract Inventory data shows 0% average sub-hours share across prime contracts captured above the $150,000 threshold in FY2022–FY2024, and the SCI dataset reflects only 1.9 FTEs delivered in FY2024, indicating that HRA builds its own delivery teams rather than engaging significant subcontractor labor for federal service work.

The vendor's work is geographically distributed across the federal footprint—place-of-performance addresses in the recent award set include Missoula (corporate headquarters and default location), Portland, Boise, Seattle, Washington D.C., Omaha, and multiple National Park Service and Fish and Wildlife Service sites. The Bureau of Reclamation's new $50 million IDIQ explicitly names seven target regions spanning fourteen states from Arizona to Wyoming and Alaska, positioning HRA for substantial regional expansion in water-resource project support.

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.