A heating and plumbing business headquartered in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, will pay $1.35 million to settle allegations it failed to follow the terms of a contract for servicing fire and life safety systems at seven VA facilities nationwide. Media Plumbing and Heating, doing business as Kinetix, participates in the VA’s service-disabled veteran owned small business program. Under terms of its contracts with the VA, the company was supposed to hire sub-contractor companies that also qualified as service-disabled veteran owned to service the fire and life safety systems. However, between January 2016 and December 2022, Kinetix failed to do so, and instead hired non-compliant subcontractors to do the work. The VA OIG investigated this case.
