New South Associates, Inc.

New South Associates, Inc., a Women-Owned Small Business headquartered in Stone Mountain, Georgia, delivers archaeological surveys, cultural resource management, historic preservation assessments, artifact curation, and heritage documentation services as a prime contractor across federal civilian and defense agencies. The firm competes predominantly under small-business set-asides, with the woman-owned small business designation anchoring most prime work.

New South Associates operates as a pure prime contractor—609 recent awards total, 100 percent held as prime contracts or IDVs with zero subcontract activity. The customer concentration is extreme and defense-anchored: the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers dominates both award count and dollar volume, accounting for 231 awards (38 percent of the portfolio) and $226.5 million in combined potential value (58 percent of total), supplemented by the Corps' engineering districts in St. Louis (65 awards, $32.4 million), Jacksonville (38 awards, $12 million), and Mobile. Beyond the Corps, the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 8–Southern Region holds 47 awards worth $30.4 million, and the Department of the Interior National Park Service Southeast Region carries 31 awards at $11.9 million. These top five customers represent 68 percent of all awards and 80 percent of combined potential value. The vendor's service footprint spans 51 distinct federal agencies but clusters around land management and military installation compliance: archaeological Phase I and Phase II surveys, National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 reviews, artifact curation (including the Veterans Curation Program), tribal consultations, geophysical surveys, and heritage documentation.

Three major indefinite-delivery vehicles anchor the portfolio. A $41.8 million single-award IDC with the Army Corps of Engineers (awarded September 2024, running through March 2030) provides comprehensive cultural resource management services across the Corps' operational areas; two delivery orders totaling $4.8 million have been issued to date. A $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the USDA Forest Service (June 2023 through March 2033) covers land management integrated resources services across all Forest Service locations nationwide. A $40 million multiple-award IDC with the Army Corps of Engineers (awarded December 2025, running through May 2031, set aside for woman-owned small businesses) was established for curation and management of archaeological collections through the Mandatory Center of Expertise. A $500,000 GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (through September 2027) offers 15 labor categories—archaeologists, project managers, architectural historians, and specialized technicians—at hourly rates ranging from $46.80 to $159.92, with education requirements spanning bachelor's to master's degrees and no cleared positions.

The top three parent vehicles by task-order volume are the Indefinite Delivery Contract W912P917D0012 (135 task orders, $38.1 million), the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (82 task orders, $7.6 million), and the Cultural Resources and Curation Services vehicle (48 task orders, $22.2 million). Recent named work exemplifies the scope: an $8.1 million BPA call from USDA Forest Service for Hurricane Helene recovery archaeological surveys across 30,000 acres in North Carolina (December 2025); a $5.4 million Veterans Curation Program task order from the Army (September 2025); a $2 million archaeological survey BPA call from Forest Service Region 8 under the LMIR agreement for Phase I work and NRHP eligibility recommendations in Tennessee (October 2025); a $1.19 million Navy delivery order for museum planning and project management at the National Museum of the U.S. Navy under the Cultural Resources and Curation Services vehicle (September 2025); and a $420,000 Forest Service BPA call for 870 acres of Phase I archaeological survey in North Carolina under NHPA Section 106 compliance (February 2026).

Activity has remained steady: 31 awards in 2022, 34 in 2023, 38 in 2024, then 21 in 2025 and 4 in 2026 (as of mid-July). Twenty awards with combined potential value of $22.9 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure. SCI reporting captures partial federal service-contract activity: New South Associates invoiced $4.7 million across 31 FTEs in FY2023 and $4.3 million across 22.6 FTEs in FY2024 on reportable prime contracts above the $150,000 threshold. Government-paid median rates on those SCI contracts ran around $91.28 per hour, with rates ranging from $77.84 to $94.26 per hour across the 10th and 90th percentiles. The vendor self-performed all SCI-reportable hours with zero subcontractor engagement. SCI is a strict subset—it excludes goods, products, micro-purchases, classified work, and grants—so these figures represent a floor on federal service revenue and a much smaller slice of total enterprise revenue. The vendor's primary NAICS footprint sits in Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (287 awards) and Environmental Consulting Services (148 awards); the dominant PSC is Special Studies/Analysis–Archeological/Paleontological (364 awards).

We provide a full range of Cultural Resource Services. We routinely assist state and federal agencies as well as private firms in complying with the various state and federal regulatory processes regarding Historic Preservation.