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ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies
Key takeaways
- The figure is more than five times what ICE spent on its first contract with the Massachusetts company eight months ago.
- It gives ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations division continuous access to Bi2's database of more than five million booking records.
- The procurement did not require the system to clear FedRAMP, the government’s security review for cloud systems handling sensitive data, before deployment.
Michael Wriston May 23, 202651523Share ICE has finalized the no-bid iris-scanning contract that Project Salt Box reported on this month, awarding Bi2 Technologies $25.1 million on May 22, according to a contract award posted to SAM.gov. The figure is more than five times what ICE spent on its first contract with the Massachusetts company eight months ago.
The award describes the purchase as covering iris biometric recognition technology and access to a biometric information system "to allow ICE agents to quickly authenticate the identity of subjects during field operations."
It gives ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations division continuous access to Bi2's database of more than five million booking records.
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