GSA awards Fairbanks firm $30,780 for heat pump replacement

A Fairbanks company has won a $30,780 federal contract to replace a heat pump, though the record does not say where the equipment will be installed. The General Services Administration awarded the contract Aug. 11 to KCORP Technology Services, Inc., an Alaska Native-owned small disadvantaged business based in Fairbanks, with a performance period running through Feb. 9, 2028.

The record lists Fairbanks as KCORP's recipient location, the city where the company is based, and names no project facility. GSA lists the Fairbanks Federal Building as an active federal property with assigned points of contact, but the award record does not tie this contract to that building or any other site.

Heating reliability is not a small matter in Interior Alaska, where Fairbanks design temperatures reach 50 below zero. Federal rules require agencies to run building systems as necessary during extreme weather to protect the structure, and occupants' day-to-day comfort depends on that upkeep.

KCORP holds GSA schedule GS-21F-0111Y for facilities maintenance on federal real property, with an option period ending May 22, 2027, and a contract end date of May 22, 2032. The heat pump award is one of three GSA contracts to Fairbanks-based KCORP entities totaling $57,140: $12,209 for a Boston Intellectual Property Law Association event and $14,151 for a capacitor bank replacement in Ann Arbor, Michigan.