National Park Service, Columbia Cascades Support Office, 909 First Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98104-1060

B -- PRODUCE AN ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY FOR BIG HOLE NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD HISTORICAL PARK, LOCATED IN WISDOM MONTANA SOL 1443-RQ9000-97-008 DUE 082097 POC Beth A. Faudree, Contracting Officer, (206)220-4041, or Lynne McPhaden, (206)220-4047 WEB: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, HTTP://WWW.NPS.GOV. E-MAIL: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, LYNNE_MCPHADEN@NPS.GOV. The National Park Service (NPS), Columbia-Cascades Support Office, is seeking qualified professional historians to provide historical research and writing services for the purposes of completing an administrative history for Big Hole National Battlefield, a unit of Nez Perce National Historical Park, located in Montana. This is a specialized study that focuses on the establishment of the park and discusses how the park has been managed and administered since its creation and later inclusion within the larger Nez Perce National Historical Park in 1992. This study will function as a key management tool for future NPS administrators of the park, identifying and discussing the persons, events, and policies that led to the park's creation and subsequently shaped its development. It will also provide an informed context for contemporary and future decision-making processes. The preparation of this document requires research and collection of information and materials, organization of materials, synthesis andinterpretation of information, and narrative writing. This document is required for all NPS units as set forth in NPS-28, Cultural Resource Management Guidelines. Required services will include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. The Contractor shall plan and conduct intensive historical research on BIHO using primary and secondary resources. Research may be accomplished by examining the files, records, and archives of the government agencies involved in managing the park since it was set aside as a protected area, archival and library collections, the collections of private individuals, and physical objects. Oral evidence such as unwritten eye-witness accounts of events or statements by participants will also be necessary to collect, review, and synthesize, particularly from all available previous park managers and superintendents involved with administration, other park and NPS employees, Nez Perce tribal members, United States Forest Service staff, Bureau of Land Management staff, and others as determined necessary. 2. The contractor shall develop the scope of the research in consultation with the System Support Office Historian and the Park staff. This research and writing will address the movement to set aside, protect and preserve BIHO and trace how the area has been managed, operated, and administered over the years by the various agencies and individuals charged with stewardship. The history will provide important comparisons and contrasts to the history of other national battlefields within the national park system. 3. The Contractor shall follow the Scope of Work and schedule as outlined in the package, and prepare a detailed and comprehensive outline for the subject report and compile a list of potential research repositories and individuals to contact. Research will require trips and/or contact with the following (but not limited to the following): Big Hole National Battlefield, Yellowstone National Park, Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS, Nez Perce NHP (Spalding, Idaho), National Archives and Records Administration repositories (War Department records), United States Forest Service records (Missoula, MT or Denver, CO), National Park Service central office records (Denver, CO and Seattle, WA), local and state historical societies (Montana Historical Society; Beaverhead County Courthouse), among other repositories. The Standard Industrial Code Classification for this procurement is 8733 and the size standard is $5.M. Responses must be received by the close of business, 2:00 P.M. (PDT) Wednesday, August 20, 1997. (0195)

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