# ICE Awards $25.1M No-Bid Iris-Scanning Contract to BI2 Technologies
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Publisher: ID Tech · published 2026-05-27 · read 2026-09-11

Original: https://idtechwire.com/ice-awards-25-1m-no-bid-iris-scanning-contract-to-bi2-technologies/

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## Who is named (7)

- [Inmate Identification and Recognition System](https://truthscore.com/entity/4ebf4a46)
- [ICE](https://truthscore.com/entity/617574d8)
- [Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program](https://truthscore.com/entity/6a9fffdb)
- [Enforcement and Removal Operations division](https://truthscore.com/entity/8ea47346)
- [BI2 Technologies](https://truthscore.com/entity/b6e37196)
- [Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System](https://truthscore.com/entity/f63035fb)
- [ICE Awards $25.1M No-Bid Iris-Scanning Contract to BI2 Technologies](https://truthscore.com/entity/f69c446f)

## Restated (already known — zero weight)

- [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded a $25.1 million no‑bid contract to BI2 Technologies for iris biometric recognition systems.](https://truthscore.com/claim/b4ce1560)
- [The contract value is more than five times the value of the prior contract between the two parties from eight months earlier.](https://truthscore.com/claim/dfe8b0d4)
- [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…](https://truthscore.com/claim/168a3a61)
- [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…](https://truthscore.com/claim/794b32ae)
- [The repository holds more than five million booking records, and ICE will have continuous access to it under the contract.](https://truthscore.com/claim/2a6a6794)
- [Deployment of the devices could begin by late June.](https://truthscore.com/claim/ecdecabf)
- [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…](https://truthscore.com/claim/2c891df3)
- [The contract documentation does not require the system to clear the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program before deployment, and it does not…](https://truthscore.com/claim/fef7a36c)
- [Civil liberties researchers and reporters covering the procurement have flagged the absence of those oversight mechanisms.](https://truthscore.com/claim/27f17b5e)
- [The contract extends a pattern that ICE established in the months before this award.](https://truthscore.com/claim/434bd190)
- [The agency previously signed a sole-source contract with BI2 in 2025 for iris biometric systems, including the Inmate Identification and Recognition System and…](https://truthscore.com/claim/d2ffba5d)
- [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…](https://truthscore.com/claim/d3e1ff25)
- [The new contract sits inside a broader expansion of biometric tooling across US federal immigration enforcement.](https://truthscore.com/claim/76823e82)
- [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…](https://truthscore.com/claim/d07d68ef)

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