History Associates Incorporated

History Associates Incorporated, a for-profit small business based in Derwood, Maryland, provides historical research, archival processing, cataloging, exhibit development, and cultural heritage documentation services to federal agencies as a prime contractor. The vendor competes predominantly under small-business set-asides; roughly 53% of recent awards carry total small-business designations, with the balance issued full-and-open or under sole-source authority.

The National Park Service National Office dominates the customer base, accounting for 116 awards (35% of total) and $44.3 million in combined potential value—a concentration that reflects History Associates' core capability in historic resource studies, furnishings reports, and long-range interpretive planning for national historic sites and monuments. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers National Capital Region Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity ranks second in potential value at $10.1 million across ten awards, anchored by a $7 million blanket purchase agreement for historical support services running through August 2026. The National Institutes of Health and Library of Medicine contribute $5.6 million combined across seven awards, primarily for archival and historical research delivery orders placed against the GSA Multiple Award Schedule. Across the five largest customers, the vendor covers 80% of combined potential value. The distribution is granular: 50 distinct federal agencies have placed awards, and the top NAICS category (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services, NAICS 541990) covers 157 awards with PSC codes dominated by Support–Professional: Other (174 awards).

Representative prime work includes a $207,961 purchase order from the National Park Service Southeast Region (awarded July 2026) for historic furnishings reports documenting the Southern Christian Leadership Conference offices and Martin Luther King Jr. Family Home in Atlanta, Georgia—work running through March 2028 and evaluated 90% on technical capability. A $132,270 National Park Service award (August 2025) tasked History Associates with a two-year historic resource study for the William Howard Taft National Historic Site in Cincinnati; a $110,873 definitive contract from the National Park Service Southeast Region (August 2025) covers archival processing, conservation, and digitization of roughly 102.5 linear feet of historical maps and blueprints at Vicksburg National Military Park through December 2026. The vendor also holds task orders on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, including a $1.036 million delivery order from the National Library of Medicine (August 2024) for archival and historical research services running through August 2027, and a $722,961 delivery order from the National Institutes of Health (September 2022) for digital records transition support through December 2024.

History Associates sits on two major parent vehicles: a $7 million indefinite-delivery contract (INP11PC60583) with 115 task orders accounting for $13.8 million in combined potential value, and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 20 task orders worth $5.3 million. The vendor also maintains a $500,000 Federal Supply Schedule contract with GSA's Federal Acquisition Service (awarded February 2025, expiring February 2030) covering eight labor categories spanning information management specialists, project managers, and subject matter experts at hourly rates from $93.27 (entry-level project manager) to $259.09 (principal with nine years' experience), with no security-clearance requirements across the portfolio.

Activity has been modest and uneven over the past five years: eight awards in 2022, nine in 2023, three in 2024, seven in 2025, and two to date in 2026. Only six awards totaling $1.8 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete pressure. SCI-reported invoicing of service contracts (contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold) totaled $604 thousand across FY2022–FY2024, with the bulk delivered in FY2022 ($419 thousand across 2.8 FTEs) and a decline to $186 thousand in FY2024 (0.7 FTEs). Median government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran $74.27/hr, with the 90th percentile at $128.28/hr. History Associates performs all delivery internally; the SCI dataset shows zero subcontract hour-share on prime records, and the vendor holds no documented sub-awards in the federal portfolio, operating as a self-performing prime contractor exclusively. The company's specialty centers on cultural heritage documentation, interpretive planning, and archival services for the Park Service and allied heritage institutions rather than IT, management consulting, or large-scale industrial capabilities.

History Associates Incorporated (HAI)is a small business with 40 years of expertise in professional services, management consulting, program support, libraries & archives, educational support services, museums & historical sites. We specialize in research, discovery, and experience services to clients and partners within government and industry. We offer a distinct blend of professional skills, services, and expertise to leverage historical assets. Consulting and investigative health research services to support COVID19 response and recovery at local, state, and federal level