A Fairbanks company owned by four Interior villages won a federal contract to replace a heat pump — in Boston

A Fairbanks company has won a $30,780 federal contract to replace a heat pump, and the heat pump is in Boston.

The General Services Administration awarded it Aug. 11 to KCORP Technology Services, a Fairbanks facilities firm owned — like the border-crossing contractor in the news this month — by K'oyitl'ots'ina, Limited, the Alaska Native village corporation of four remote Koyukon Athabascan communities along the Koyukuk River: Alatna, Allakaket, Hughes and Huslia. The record lists Fairbanks as the company's home and Boston as where the work happens, without naming the building.

The heat pump is one of three small GSA jobs signed this month to KCORP companies sharing a single Fairbanks address, totaling $57,140. The other two: $12,209 to the same firm tied to a Boston Intellectual Property Law Association event, and $14,151 to a sister company, KCORP Support Services, to replace a capacitor bank in Ann Arbor, Michigan. All are routine building-maintenance work — the everyday, unglamorous end of a federal facilities business that, through the same corporation, also runs the U.S.-Mexico border crossings in San Diego. Neither the agency nor the company says more about the Boston site in the records this account is drawn from.