ICE Detention Lawsuit Calls $10 Billion Procurement Rushed

US Immigration and Customers Enforcement task orders for emergency detention services shouldn’t move forward because of the procurement’s “defective structure,” a contractor said in a lawsuit.

ICE’s procurement is flawed because of ambiguous pricing terms and because the agency awarded over 40 contracts “when far fewer awards were anticipated,” the Active Deployment Systems LLC told the US Court of Federal Claims in a complaint made public June 20.

These flaws “were likely the result of ICE’s decision to rush through the procurement and evaluation process—a method that seldom results in clarity and reasonableness,” the complaint says.

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