Hope Archaeology Inc.

Hope Archaeology Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Bozeman, Montana, provides archaeological site surveys, cultural resource inventories, heritage assessments, and National Register of Historic Places eligibility evaluations to federal land management agencies exclusively as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides and full-and-open competition. The company operates 100% as a prime — no subcontract footprint — and competes across both set-aside and unrestricted federal procurements, with total small business set-asides characterizing roughly half its recent award volume.

Hope Archaeology's customer base concentrates heavily on the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region (Region 2), which accounts for 60 awards and $19.3 million of the combined $21.6 million potential value across the company's 91 recent awards. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas Region is the second-largest customer, with 14 awards valued at $1.2 million combined. The U.S. Forest Service Northern Region (Region 1) accounts for 6 awards and $513 thousand, while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers holds 4 awards and $396 thousand. Together, these five customer entities represent 95% of awarded volume. The company's work footprint spans western federal lands — Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Montana — with administrative operations in Bozeman.

Hope Archaeology holds three active indefinite-delivery contracts anchoring its federal business. The most recent, awarded August 18, 2026, is a $4 million single-award IDIQ with the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region for cultural resource management services across the Black Hills National Forest, Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grasslands, and Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands, set aside for total small business and running through May 31, 2031. A $3.5 million multiple-award IDIQ with the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region for heritage surveys on the Bighorn and Shoshone National Forests was awarded September 30, 2025, also set-aside, extending through June 30, 2030. A $191,584 single-award IDIQ with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for site updates and Montana Cultural Site Record form compilation across the Libby-Jennings Archaeological District was awarded June 18, 2024, and runs through June 17, 2027. Task orders issued against the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region indefinite-delivery vehicles (contracts AG67T0C170028, 1240LP21D0008, and AG82X9C080096) comprise 41 task orders worth $1.9 million combined.

Representative recent work includes a $141,597 delivery order from the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region for Level I and Level III archaeological inventories covering 38,007 acres, site condition assessments of 35 historic properties, and evaluation of 11 unevaluated cultural resource sites within the Benchmark Vegetation Management project area (awarded September 30, 2025, completion October 15, 2026); a $213,231 purchase order from the Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas Region for cultural resource inventory and paleontological studies to support fuels clearance activities across the Eastern Montana/Dakotas District (awarded May 20, 2025, completion December 31, 2025); and a $224,775 purchase order from the Forest Service Northern Region for three cultural resource inventories on the Dakota Prairie Grasslands (awarded September 14, 2023, completion March 6, 2024). Work typically involves Class I, II, and III archaeological surveys, site monitoring and re-evaluations, pedestrian surveys across multiple acreage ranges (often 1,000 to 7,000 acres per task order), and National Register eligibility documentation.

Activity has fluctuated — eight awards in 2022, nine in 2023, four in 2024, six in 2025, and two in 2026 — with only $96 thousand in combined potential value reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating modest recompete exposure in the near term. The company derives NAICS classification primarily from All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (48 awards) and Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (18 awards), with PSC coding dominated by Special Studies/Analysis — Archeological/Paleontological (40 awards) and Natural Resources/Conservation — Other (19 awards).

All Cultural Resource Management (CRM) and historic preservation services that comply with local, state, and federal regulations.