State Department cuts $5.6 million from Kodiak firm's terminated New Mexico order

The State Department deobligated $5.6 million on Nov. 6 from an order with Kodiak-based Alutiiq Information Management, the largest of 329 contract actions that USAspending.gov lists for Alaska-based recipients from Nov. 3 to 10.

The order paid for program support services at the ILEA facility in Roswell, New Mexico. The Nov. 6 change is recorded as a requirement to terminate the contract for the convenience of the government.

Obligations are money the government has committed, not money it has paid, according to USAspending. A deobligation lowers that committed amount.

On Nov. 9, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention exercised a $12.3 million option on its NIOSH guard services contract with Anchorage-based Bering Straits Professional Services. An option lets the government extend a contract or buy more of the services it covers. The contract's total obligations now stand at about $33.5 million, and the work runs through Nov. 30, 2027.

The same day, the General Services Administration placed 230 orders, worth about $79,100 combined, with Anchorage-based ASCI Federal Services. They included mopping outfits for $682, a marker assortment for $380 and scouring pads for $6.

On Nov. 10, the US Patent and Trademark Office closed out a construction management order with Anchorage-based Koniag Professional Services, deobligating $143,855. The work, in Alexandria, Virginia, ran from September 2023 to June 2024.