Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a sub-agency of the Department of Homeland Security, is the federal civilian agency responsible for enforcing immigration and customs laws; it acquires and contracts for detention operations, transportation and guard services, facility construction and maintenance, medical support, investigative technology, and border security equipment across domestic and international locations.

ICE has awarded 38,970 federal contracts since 1981 with a combined potential value of $63.32 billion and $42.51 billion obligated (67% of potential). The agency closed 1,062 awards in 2022, 1,119 in 2023, 977 in 2024, 1,043 in 2025, and 340 year-to-date in 2026. Among the 6,430 distinct prime contractors in the portfolio, competitive concentration is highly fragmented by award count and moderately concentrated by dollar value. Over the last five years, Price Modern LLC leads by award count with 309 awards valued at $107.3 million combined; Fcn, Inc. follows with 261 awards ($190.1 million); and Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. placed third with 219 awards ($133.4 million). By potential value, The GEO Group, Inc. dominates with 53 awards worth $2.32 billion combined, reflecting ICE's reliance on a single large contractor for detention-facility operations. The remaining top-five primes by value each hold under $200 million combined potential. Eighty-seven percent of awards carry no set-aside designation. Small-business awards (including 8(a) sole source, HUBZone, and competitive 8(a)) comprise 12 percent of the portfolio; the remainder includes reserved and preferential categories each representing less than one percent of awards.

Recent contract opportunities reflect ICE's core mission areas and infrastructure needs. A solicitation closed 2026-08-14 seeks a Single Award Construction Contract (SACC) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) for new construction, renovation, repair, and demolition at Service Processing Centers (SPCs) nationwide and internationally, restricted to large businesses, with anticipated award by 2026-09-25. ICE posted a Sources Sought notice (due 2026-07-31) for aviation security screening equipment installation and support at three international airports (Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa). A pre-solicitation for detention facilities (due 2026-07-17) addresses turnkey Contractor Owned/Contractor-Operated facilities in the Denver, Miami, Seattle, and Philadelphia areas of responsibility. A market-research notice (due 2026-08-07) seeks surface and structured vehicle parking at 14 locations nationwide. ICE also posted opportunities for armed guard transportation services (due 2026-07-24 for the Baltimore–Washington corridor), aircraft operations and maintenance support for government-owned deportation and crisis-response aircraft (pre-solicitation, due 2026-07-22), teleradiology services (due 2026-08-07, small-business set-aside), and medical support services including pre- and post-employment testing across all 50 states and select U.S. territories (pre-solicitation, due 2026-07-02). Several sole-source notices post to Special Notice channels, including forensic software, drone training, data analytic support services, parking at ICE Headquarters, and child exploitation detection platforms.

Grant activity at ICE is minimal and sporadic. The agency has awarded 14 grants totaling $16.7 million in federal dollars obligated since 2007, with the most recent award closing 2023-09-30. All grants are Project Grants. The National Center For Missing And Exploited Children holds 100 percent of recent grant awards by count and 5 percent by federal dollars obligated, reflecting a narrow, mission-specific funding relationship centered on child-exploitation investigations. No recent grant opportunities are recorded.

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