National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Inventory and Assessment of Buildings on Fort Hood | W9126G 23 2 SOI 2179

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The Department of Defense, through the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Fort Worth District, issued a grant opportunity for a cooperative agreement focused on historic preservation compliance work at Fort Hood. The project is titled "National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Inventory and Assessment of Buildings on Fort Hood" and centers on documenting and evaluating a large group of existing buildings and other built resources located on land managed by Fort Hood. The opportunity was posted on Grants.gov as Funding Opportunity Number W9126G 23 2 SOI 2179 under CFDA 12.005, with an anticipated single award and an award ceiling of $170,500.

This notice is specifically a request for a Statement of Interest (SOI), not a full technical proposal and not a detailed budget submission. At this stage, the government is asking interested parties to demonstrate qualifications, past performance, and capability to perform similar work. In practical terms, that means an organization should use the SOI to show it has the right expertise (for example, architectural history, historic architecture, cultural resources management, and NRHP compliance experience), the capacity to complete fieldwork and documentation at the required scale, and a track record producing defensible NRHP evaluations and associated reporting.

The scope of work is an inventory and assessment of 155 built resources that are 45 years old or older. Alongside the inventory, the awardee is expected to evaluate these resources for significance and potential eligibility in relation to the National Historic Preservation Act, to the maximum extent possible during the inventory effort. The opportunity lists three core objectives: (1) built resource inventory and evaluation, (2) literature review, and (3) NRHP documentation. The inventory and evaluation component typically implies systematic field identification, description, and characterization of each resource, including construction dates, architectural style and integrity, alterations, associations, and contextual information. The literature review implies use of existing installation records, prior cultural resources studies, historic maps, archival sources, real property records, and other background materials needed to place the resources in context. NRHP documentation indicates the project will produce written products suitable to support NRHP eligibility determinations and, where appropriate, more formal NRHP-level documentation consistent with federal standards (as defined in the full Statement of Objectives located in the Related Documents tab).

The period of performance is 18 months from the date of award, and the announcement states there are no follow-on periods. That timeline signals the government wants a complete, end-to-end deliverable within a year and a half, including research, fieldwork, analysis, and reporting. Because this is on an active military installation, an SOI that highlights experience working in secure or operational environments, managing access coordination, and meeting government schedule and quality requirements would be directly relevant.

Administrative details in the posting include that SOIs must be posted for 30 days on Grants.gov before the government decides whether to request full proposals. The SOI due date listed is May 20, 2023, and the opportunity originally opened April 20, 2023. Interested parties were instructed to submit their Statement of Interest to the listed USACE Fort Worth District points of contact: Sandy Justman, Grant Specialist (sandra.justman@usace.army.mil), and Chanley Jenkins, Project Manager (chanley.r.jenkins@usace.army.mil; mobile 918-798-9628). The eligible applicant category is listed broadly as "Others" with additional eligibility clarification referenced in the posting, and the opportunity category is labeled "Other" while the activity category is "Science and Technology and other Research and Development," reflecting the applied research and documentation character of cultural resources inventory and evaluation work.

• The Department of Defense, Fort Worth District in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Inventory and Assessment of Buildings on Fort Hood" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 12.005.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 20, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 20, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $170,500.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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