Anchorage firm has held FBI maintenance contract without competition since 2022

Two more facilities-maintenance orders worth a combined $61,786 went this month to Chugach Solutions Enterprise, LLC of Anchorage, both for work at the FBI's Washington Field Office. They are the latest calls against a GSA contract that federal award data codes 8(a) sole source.

The General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service awarded $44,921 on Aug. 12 for hatch and pit fall protection installation at the field office building, coded DC0463ZZ, with a performance period running through Dec. 10. A second order, $16,865 for garage floor drain water jetting, was awarded Aug. 17 and runs through Dec. 17. Both list the recipient's location as Anchorage. They are two of 14 orders the firm has taken there this year, worth about $463,000.

The contract behind them covers consolidated facilities management there and runs to Jan. 31, 2027. It is the third in a row. The firm has held this work continuously since November 2022, through an initial contract and a bridge contract, and federal records give all three the same coding: not available for competition, one source, one offer. About $13 million has been obligated across them. Orders against a single-award contract are not separately competed as a matter of routine; the coding that matters is the contract's.

The award record lists the firm as Alaskan Native Corporation owned and an 8(a) program participant, and the address it registers with the federal government also serves Chugach Alaska Corporation's government contracting subsidiaries. Alaska Native corporations are deemed socially and economically disadvantaged and their firms may participate in the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program; Congress has extended additional advantages to 8(a) ANC firms, including sole-source awards at any dollar amount. Chugach's government services arm says on its corporate site that it "leverages the SBA 8(a) program exactly as intended, to deliver speed, accountability, and continuity for government missions while advancing long-term Alaska Native self-determination." The records do not state why GSA chose it.