Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a sub-agency of the Department of Homeland Security, is the principal criminal and civil enforcement component responsible for border control, customs, immigration, and trade enforcement, procuring contracts and funding grants to support detention operations, investigations, and field enforcement activities across domestic and overseas locations.

ICE's contract footprint is substantial and highly active. The agency awarded 39,594 federal contracts cumulatively since 1981, with a combined potential value of $68.83 billion and $46.23 billion obligated. Recent activity runs at 1,063 awards in 2022, 1,119 in 2023, 977 in 2024, 1,057 in 2025, and 949 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent recorded award date is October 19, 2026. Among 6,516 distinct prime contractors in the portfolio, competitive concentration by award count is fragmented—the top five primes hold 20 percent of recent awards—but concentration by potential value is highly concentrated. The GEO Group, Inc. and CoreCivic, Inc. dominate by dollar value, holding $2.49 billion and $896.4 million combined potential value respectively over the last five years, driven primarily by detention-related contracts. Fcn, Inc. ranks third by value at $204.1 million across 252 awards; Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. follows with $140.1 million across 241 awards; and Price Modern LLC rounds the top five with $110.4 million across 307 awards. The long tail of smaller vendors accounts for significant award volume, making the landscape highly fragmented at the award-count level.

Set-aside activity is minimal; 86 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation. Small business set-asides account for 9 percent of awards, with 8(a) sole-source awards at 2 percent, HUBZone at 1 percent, and competitive 8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, and other designations each under 1 percent.

Grant activity is negligible. ICE has awarded 14 grants cumulatively since 2007, with $16.7 million federal dollars obligated and no awards recorded since September 2023. The sole recent recipient is The National Center For Missing And Exploited Children, which received one award of $915 thousand in 2023. All grants are structured as Project Grants. Grant-making is not a material dimension of ICE's federal funding footprint.

Recent contract opportunities span operational support, technology modernization, and field services. Active solicitations include supply and delivery of packaged food products to the Atlanta Field Office Detention Intake Processing Unit (due November 5, 2026, small-business set-aside); a Request for Information for an enterprise SaaS eDiscovery platform with Super Intelligence and agentic AI capabilities for the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (due October 28, 2026, no set-aside); and passenger transport services (due October 26, 2026, small-business set-aside). ICE is also conducting market research on an Outcome-Based Rapid Business Integration and Technology (ORBIT) multiple-award IDIQ—the rebranded successor to the SWIFT vehicle—for integrated technology solutions across detention, investigations, and operations; an Industry Day was held October 22, 2026 with registration now closed to in-person attendance. Additional RFIs are open for SI-powered detention communications and video intelligence suites (due October 26, 2026) and enterprise AI, data, and technology architecture operations and maintenance services (submission deadline extended to October 23, 2026). Special notices reflect sole-source intent for telecommunications analysis software support to Pen-Link, Limited (HSI Technical Operations Center), forensic equipment and support to Parsons Government Service, Inc., and investigative software to Searchlight Cyber, as well as a notice of intent to modify the medical claims processing contract with Acentra Health, LLC.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement enforces federal laws governing border control, customs, trade, and immigration.