History Associates Incorporated

History Associates Incorporated, a small for-profit business based in Derwood, Maryland, delivers historical research, archival processing, exhibit development, and cultural heritage documentation services to federal agencies exclusively as a prime contractor across 328 recent federal awards with a combined potential value of $87.4 million. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open, without set-aside designations on larger or repeat work, though a significant portion of National Park Service task orders carry total small business set-asides.

The National Park Service dominates the customer base, accounting for 53 percent of recent awards by count (116 awards, $44.3 million combined potential value) concentrated in the National Office, Midwest Region, and Southeast Region. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers National Capital Region Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity ranks second by dollar value with 10 awards totaling $10.1 million, anchored by a $7 million blanket purchase agreement for historical support services that runs through March 2025. The GSA Federal Acquisition Service follows with $6.9 million across two awards, including History Associates' $500,000 Federal Supply Schedule contract issued February 4, 2025, covering office management and information management services through February 2030. The National Institutes of Health and its National Library of Medicine represent the fourth-largest customer by dollars ($5 million across 7 awards), with work spanning records digitization, archival cataloging, and heritage asset assessment. Across the top five customers by potential value, 79 percent of combined potential value is concentrated, signaling high customer concentration risk offset by customer count diversity across 51 distinct federal agencies.

Capability work flows through two primary parent vehicles. An Indefinite Delivery Contract (INP11PC60583) with the National Park Service anchors 115 task orders valued at $13.8 million for historic resource studies, historic furnishings reports, interpretive plans, and archival processing at national monuments and historic sites nationwide — work includes a $207,961 task order for historic furnishings reports at the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Home and SCLC offices in Atlanta (July 2026), a $132,270 historic resource study for the William Howard Taft National Historic Site in Cincinnati (August 2025), and a $110,873 archival processing and cataloging task order for the Vicksburg National Military Park Maps and Blueprints Collection (August 2025). The GSA Multiple Award Schedule generates 20 task orders totaling $5.3 million, including a $1.035 million delivery order from the Administration for Children and Families for archival and historical research services through August 2027, and a $722,961 delivery order from the National Institutes of Health for records digitization and transition from physical to digital record-keeping processes through December 2024. Recent non-vehicle work includes an $78,650 definitive contract with the Smithsonian Institution for oral histories of women in the U.S. Postal Service (August 2026) and a $29,039 sole-source purchase order from the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs for design, fabrication, and installation of a temporary exhibit at NATO Headquarters in Brussels (May 2026, awarded under FAR Part 6.104-2 based on unique capability and prior security-clearance access to NATO facilities).

Activity has contracted sharply in recent years — eight awards in 2022, nine in 2023, three in 2024, seven in 2025, and three in 2026 — signaling either a shift in how work is being captured in the source or material decline in new task order volume. Five awards with combined potential value of $1.7 million face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure but insufficient to drive major cash-flow cliff risk. History Associates performs all delivery internally; across SCI-reportable service contracts, the vendor engaged zero percent subcontracted hours, indicating a fully internal staffing and delivery model.

The GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans eight categories, priced from $93.27 to $259.09 per hour in the initial contract year, with education requirements ranging from bachelor's degree (entry-level Project Managers and Information Management Specialists) through master's degree (senior specialists and subject-matter experts). No labor categories carry security-clearance requirements, reflecting the vendor's focus on unclassified cultural heritage and administrative work. SCI-reported invoicing totaled $604 thousand across FY2022 through FY2025 (FY2022: $419 thousand, FY2024: $186 thousand), with workforce scale of 4.7 FTEs in FY2022 declining to 0.7 FTEs in FY2024, indicating that SCI-reportable service contract work represents a small slice of the vendor's federal footprint; most federal activity flows through task orders against standing IDVs and vehicles that fall below or near the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold on individual orders. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts ranged from $42.12 at the tenth percentile to $128.28 at the 90th percentile, with a median of $74.27 per hour, positioning History Associates as a cost-efficient provider of archival and records-management labor relative to large systems integrators.

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