Southeastern Archaeological Research, LLC

Southeastern Archaeological Research, LLC, doing business as Southeastern Archaeological Research, Inc. (SEARCH), is a woman-owned small business headquartered in Orlando, Florida, that specializes in cultural resource management, archaeological investigations, surveys, and heritage conservation services for federal agencies. The firm provides comprehensive expertise in conducting archaeological fieldwork, managing museum and archival collections, and delivering historic preservation consulting services that directly support federal infrastructure projects, environmental restoration efforts, and compliance with cultural resource protection regulations. SEARCH has established itself as a primary cultural resources partner for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies, with a robust portfolio of contracts and grants demonstrating its capacity to manage complex archaeological and heritage stewardship initiatives across diverse geographic locations and project types.

SEARCH has received numerous prime federal contract awards totaling several million dollars across multiple contract vehicles and funding agencies. The firm has served as the prime contractor on delivery orders and blanket purchase agreement calls issued under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' $41.5 million Cultural Resources and Curation Services Indefinite Delivery Contract, performing work including historic properties management planning, archaeological data recovery excavations, cultural resources surveys, and curation and inventorying services. Specific contract awards demonstrate SEARCH's technical capabilities: a $1.826 million blanket purchase agreement call for cultural resource mitigation at the Everglades Agricultural Area A-2 Reservoir project; a $725,417.47 call for Phase II National Register of Historic Places evaluation, Phase III data recovery excavation, and Historic American Engineering Record documentation at the Rio Grande de Arecibo Flood Damage Reduction Project in Puerto Rico; a $591,801 contract for the Arecibo Phase 2 archaeological program; and a $479,003 delivery order addressing adverse and cumulative effects to historic properties at Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site in Colorado resulting from large-scale military training activities. SEARCH has also received awards from the National Park Service (a $66,676.72 delivery order for a Phase I administrative history and National Register update for Independence National Historical Park); the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (a $324,095 contract to prepare National Register nominations for 19th-century shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico); the Department of the Navy (a $6.561 million delivery order for artifact-related services in Washington, D.C., and a $138,840 contract for archivist support services); and NASA Kennedy Space Center (a $189,952.69 blanket purchase agreement call). Additionally, SEARCH has served as a subcontractor to Environmental Quality Management, Inc. for archaeological surveying; to Stantec Consulting Services Inc. for pier coring work supporting the U.S. Coast Guard; and to Serco Inc. for various services. The firm's contract awards include both set-aside designations (woman-owned small business and total small business set-asides) and competitive awards without set-aside provisions, reflecting its competitive standing in both targeted and open federal procurement environments.

SEARCH has received federal grant awards through sub-grant mechanisms, with the most significant award being a sub-award from The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., which is the recipient of a cooperative agreement with the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) for field investigations and recovery activities. Under this sub-award agreement, SEARCH conducts archaeological fieldwork including Phase I field surveys, Phase II field testing, and Phase III archaeological recovery operations to locate and recover remains of service members listed as missing in action. The cooperative agreement structure establishes SEARCH as a specialized partner performing terrestrial and underwater investigational and recovery efforts at the request of the DPAA, with work being coordinated through The Henry M. Jackson Foundation. This grant sub-award represents SEARCH's capacity to perform highly specialized and sensitive archaeological recovery missions supporting military casualty accounting and family closure objectives, demonstrating the firm's expertise beyond standard cultural resource compliance work on civilian infrastructure projects.

SEARCH maintains three significant federal contract indefinite delivery vehicles that serve as foundational platforms for task order awards across multiple federal agencies. The firm holds a $41.5 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Cultural Resources and Curation Services, which has been the source for numerous delivery orders and blanket purchase agreement calls from USACE district offices including the St. Louis District, Jacksonville District, and Kansas City District, covering projects ranging from archaeological surveys and historic properties management plans to data recovery excavations and artifact curation services. SEARCH also maintains a $30 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for nationwide cultural resource surveys and management services, which has supported projects across multiple states and geographic regions. Additionally, SEARCH holds a $7.5 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the International Development Finance Corporation for environmental and social services, structured with three pools to provide environmental and social due diligence, monitoring services during construction and operational phases, and specialized assessments related to projects under consideration for or within DFC's financing portfolio. These three IDVs collectively position SEARCH as a pre-competed vendor capable of rapidly responding to federal agency requirements for cultural resource management, archaeological services, environmental assessments, and heritage preservation work without requiring full and open competition for each individual task order, enabling efficient procurement and predictable service delivery across the federal government.

Southeastern Archaeological Research, LLC (SEARCH) is no longer a small business and no longer a woman-owned business.