Border Patrol adds $1.9 million to Anchorage company's transportation and guard order

U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Oct. 30 added $1.9 million to an Anchorage company's order for ground transportation and facility guard services for the U.S. Border Patrol.

That brings the order with TrailBoss Enterprises to about $9.4 million so far, out of a potential $30.3 million. It runs from Sept. 30 through April 30 and was set aside for small businesses, drawing three bids. It was the largest federal contract action for an Alaska-based company recorded on USAspending.gov between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2.

The award record describes the work only as "ground transportation & facility guard services," and federal records don't make clear where it happens. They list Anchorage as the place of performance. Two earlier TrailBoss orders from Customs and Border Protection also list Anchorage, even though their descriptions say the work was in Texas and New Mexico.

One of those, an order that ran from April to September, was described as "Ground transportation services provided in Texas (TX) and New Mexico (NM)" and obligated about $22.2 million.

Other Alaska companies got more federal money the same day, much of it for work far from Alaska:

• Arlluk Technology Solutions of Anchorage got another $915,000 from the Labor Department to support the online portals of the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, with the work listed in Washington, D.C.

• Ahtna Integrated Services of Anchorage got another $822,868 from the Department of Homeland Security for protective security officers at an Internal Revenue Service facility in Andover, Massachusetts.

• Coho Consulting Group of Anchorage got another $761,645 from the State Department for overseas school support, exercising an option and adding a position.

• Tatitlek Federal Services of Anchorage has an order for work at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico that was moved between two General Services Administration offices. Only $28,986 has been obligated so far, but the order's potential value is up to $32.6 million.