Past Matters LLC

Past Matters LLC, a woman-owned and minority-owned small business based in Baltimore, Maryland, provides artifact preservation, conservation assessment, and museum collection management services to the National Park Service as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides. The firm operates as a sole proprietorship and has self-certified as a small disadvantaged business and woman-owned small business; all forty awards in the source data are prime contracts, with no subcontract footprint or parent vehicle participation beyond one five-task-order Blanket Purchase Agreement.

Past Matters delivers conservation and collections-management work grounded in on-site assessment, condition survey, preservation treatment, and artifact rehousing for museum and historical park sites. Recent representative work includes a $71,637 firm-fixed-price purchase order from NPS Southeast Region (awarded June 2026, performance through June 2027) for a 100 percent inventory and rehousing of approximately 170,000 artifacts at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, encompassing American Revolutionary War weapons, equipment, and archeological materials across on-site work in Greensboro, North Carolina, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, and North Carolina State University; a $32,637 collection condition survey and preservation rehousing for ceramic vessels and ethnographic materials at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park (awarded August 2023, completed September 2024); and a $23,080 preservation contract with Stones River National Battlefield for stabilization of approximately 38 military documents including personal papers, muster rolls, and military records (awarded June 2022, completed February 2024).

Customer concentration is heavily concentrated in the National Park Service across multiple regions. The top five customer offices account for 93 percent of awards by count and 92 percent of combined potential value ($1.2 million across all awards). NPS Southeast Region dominates with fourteen awards carrying $512 thousand in combined potential value, followed by NPS Intermountain Region (six awards, $191 thousand), NPS National Office (seven awards, $174 thousand), NPS Northeast Region (two awards, $102 thousand), and the Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (four awards, $95 thousand). The Maritime Administration work centers on heritage asset repair and restoration of vessels and statuary. Activity has been intermittent — two awards in 2021, five in 2022, one in 2023, two in 2024, and one in 2026 — with only one award carrying an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, minimizing near-term recompete exposure. Work is performed in multiple states including North Carolina, Missouri, and various NPS regional jurisdictions; NAICS framing spans All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (fifteen awards), Museums (thirteen awards), and support services, with primary PSC coding under Support-Professional and Natural Resources/Conservation categories.