Specifications include, but are not limited to: The South Dakota Department of Education’s Division of History (“State”) seeks a qualified vendor to provide professional services on behalf of the State of South Dakota (“Consultant”) for the purpose of writing a cultural resource context and National Register evaluation guidance for structures and sites related to conveying and managing water that were historically built in South Dakota up to 1980, as further specified in Section 2 below. The context and guidance shall provide State staff, Tribal Historic Preservation Offices (THPOs), federal and state agencies, cultural resource professionals, and the interested public with information to assist in the effective and consistent evaluation within the National Register of Historic Places criteria for these resources that are commonly encountered but also have specialized technical and/or vernacular characteristics.
