ICE Awards $25.1M No-Bid Iris-Scanning Contract to BI2 Technologies
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- The deal covers more than 1,500 mobile iris scanners for field deployment, access to BI2’s biometric mobile application, and continuing access to the company’s iris database, according to the procurement records posted on SAM.gov.
- The procurement is structured as a sole-source award, the no-bid mechanism that lets a federal agency contract with a single vendor without a competitive solicitation.
- The contract extends a pattern that ICE established in the months before this award.
- The new contract sits inside a broader expansion of biometric tooling across US federal immigration enforcement.
- The award gives ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division iris recognition capability in the field through devices that agents can carry, paired with a mobile application that lets them check captured iris images against BI2’s central repository.
- By placing iris‑recognition devices into agents’ hands and giving them mobile access to a multi‑million‑record repository hosted by a private vendor, the deal anchors the operational identification workflow on infrastructure that is built and managed outside the agency itself.
- ICE has separately been expanding its mobile iris-scanning capability for use in the field, and the new award scales both the device count and the central-repository access materially.
- The contract value is more than five times the value of the prior contract between the two parties from eight months earlier.
- The contract documentation does not require the system to clear the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program before deployment, and it does not describe any independent audit, congressional notification, or external review of how the iris system would be used.
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