U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District (CE LAD) IDIQ Contracts, Southern California and Nevada, Southeastern Utah, and Arizona
Cultural resource management services
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Los Angeles District
P.O. Box 2711
Los Angeles, CA 90053
Approximate Cost: $5 million
SRI has been the prime contractor or prime subcontractor on 15 IDIQ contracts issued from the CE LAD since 1987. These contracts have covered both civil and military projects in southern California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and Arizona. In that time, we have performed more than 100 delivery orders, averaging about 10 per year.
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| CE LAD projects performed by SRI since 1987 |
Services conducted on these projects have included cultural resource management plans, historic-preservation plans, historic contexts, literature reviews and searches, cultural resource overviews, paleontological overviews, treatment plans, data recovery plans, research designs, oral history, archival research, archaeological terrestrial surveys, traditional cultural property surveys, NAGPRA compliance, collections management, historic-properties surveys, historic-building recording, underwater surveys, underwater archaeological site evaluation, archaeological testing and data recovery for both prehistoric and historical-period resources, construction monitoring, exhibits, public brochures and popular reports, technical reports, Historic American Engineering Records, Historic Architectural Building Surveys, historic-structure maintenance guidelines, historic-building restoration, GPS training, GIS development, and predictive models.
In California, our projects have included survey, testing, and data recovery at Prado Dam and Whittier Narrows; testing and historic, rock art, and paleoenvironmental studies on San Nicolas Island; survey at Camp Pendleton and Fort Irwin; documentation and evaluation of the World War II-era Desert Training Center-California-Arizona Maneuver Area (in both California and Arizona); testing and historic documentation at Point Mugu Naval Air Weapons Station; testing and data recovery at Newport Bay; and underwater survey in Long Beach Harbor and Santa Monica Bay.
This contract is also frequently used by other CE districts and government agencies to procure SRI's cultural resource services directly. For the CE, Sacramento District, SRI is currently completing a site-disturbance evaluation, site monitoring, and HAER documentation of a historic bridge. For the U.S. Air Force, SRI is preparing an evaluation of Cold War properties at RTD&E installations throughout the United States, and for the Bureau of Land Management in California, SRI is completing historic context studies of various segments of historic Route 66.
Beyond the breadth of services provided by SRI to the CE and other government agencies, we have also learned to be extremely flexible. For example, between 1989 and 1997, SRI worked closely with the CE and the western ARNG to inventory and evaluate cultural resources for a proposed helicopter gunnery range in southern Arizona. Six separate, although sometimes overlapping, delivery orders were issued for this project over three IDIQ contracts. Our first task was to assemble over 2,000 site records into a detailed overview that covered most of southern Arizona. This work was conducted at the same time that SRI designed and executed a 75 percent Class II sample survey (10,500 acres) of the proposed target areas on the Barry M. Goldwater Range alternative. Redesign of the impact zone then led to additional Class III surveys in 1990 and 1994 (each about 2,000 acres). In all, these surveys recorded more than 100 sites, much more than had been anticipated. Rather than issuing separate reports, the CE requested that SRI synthesize all archaeological survey work in one document. Funds from three delivery orders, therefore, had to be managed to a common end. In addition, monies were allocated in 1992 for various unspecified tasks. Over the next 5 years, SRI used these funds to survey alternatives on the Florence Military Reservation, prepare maps for the ARNG, conduct an ethnographic survey of traditional cultural properties, and attend a variety of planning meetings. In 1994, a sixth order was issued to perform a Class III survey of small, discrete parcels distributed over much of southern Arizona.
To manage these disparate projects, SRI created a management chart for each. This chart specified the amount of time and money each labor category had been allocated on a particular delivery order. Direct costs, such as per diem, travel, supplies, and report costs, were also budgeted separately for each task. Each month, management charts were provided to the project team. Problems and issues that arose were brought up at project senior staff meetings. In this manner, issues were dealt with in the context of all ARNG projects at the most senior level of the company.
The cultural resource management aspect of the ARNG project has been widely acclaimed by regulatory agencies as a model of good research and good management. This end came about through a structure designed specifically to handle this type of multiple-delivery-order contract.