JACKSON, Miss. -- It looks like Mississippi is getting left out when it comes to hurricane rebuilding contracts.

A federal report released by Homeland Security shows only 6 percent of FEMA contracts for relief went to companies in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

AWashington Post investigation revealed $2 billion worth of government contracts given out, but only 3.8 percent are done by companies in Alabama, 2.8 percent in Louisiana and just 1.8 in Mississippi.

Added together, it's less than $200 million or a $2 billion pool.

Kent Adams thinks that's just fishy.

Adams Home Center in Yazoo City thought it had two sub-contracts to supply 450 portable classrooms to the Gulf Coast but an Alaskan Management Company pulled the rug out from under them.

"We were ready and capable of doing this project and it was taken away from us," said Adams.

Adams said the Akima Corporation, which has no experience supplying classrooms, was going to do a $24 million deal with Kent Adams' Yazoo City business to buy and set up the portables.

But Akima, out of Alaska, cut him out of the deal but took the contracts to his suppliers in Georgia and California.

"With us not only being from Mississippi and Yazoo county, you take somebody from thousands of miles away and they end up with the money," said Adams. "We could have created numerous jobs with this."

Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson said similar scenarios are playing out across the state and is asking the Federal Department of Homeland Security to investigate.

"That's not the intent of any relief in any community -- it's to give people locally the first shot at anything from a development standpoint," said Rep. Bennie Thompson.

Since Katrina, Gov. Haley Barbour has made similar pleas for locals to be a part of the rebuilding process.

Some in Yazoo City community feel they're being left out.

"I just do not understand the concept of an Alaskan company coming in and usurping us like this," said Aubry Bent Jr., who lives in Yazoo City.

The Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg set up the deal with Akima and said because of the time delays involved in fulfilling contracts with several companies, it felt it would be quicker to use the Alaskan company to put portables in the Gulf South.