Katmai leaves the 8(a) program Sept. 30

Anchorage's Katmai Integrated Solutions picked up four General Services Administration repair orders worth about $174,000 at federal buildings in Florida, all signed Sept. 2. The company's spot in the federal government's 8(a) small-business contracting program, which sets aside work for disadvantaged firms, ends Sept. 30.

The largest, $127,602, covers domestic water pumps with variable-frequency drives at the Bryan Simpson U.S. Courthouse in Jacksonville, starting Sept. 4. Three more at Miami's Wilkie D. Ferguson Federal Building begin Sept. 7: $23,246 for a fuel monitor, $12,022 for a west gate door and $11,130 for a bollard motor and pump.

The fuel monitor drew seventeen offers with no set-aside used; the pump job was fully and openly competed.

GSA lists Katmai as an Alaska Native corporation-owned, tribally owned small disadvantaged business. The company is owned by Ouzinkie's village corporation. It holds 247 federal awards worth $28.7 million.

A 2009 Senate analysis found that only 21% of the dollar value of Alaska Native corporation contracts awarded from 2000 to 2008 was actually performed in Alaska. Kevin Berry, a University of Alaska Anchorage economist, said profits still flow home: "that's where we see money come into the Alaska economy."