Posted on 06/24/2014 10:37:36 AM PDT by blam
Mac Slavo
June 23rd, 2014
The White House would have us believe that the massive flood of immigrants on our southern border was a surprise that no one could have predicted.
But a government contract posted in January of 2014 by the Department of Homeland Security tells a shockingly different story. According to the FedBizOpps.gov web site the government was seeking personnel who could provide escort services for “Unaccompanied Alien Children” in anticipation of an event that would leave up to 65,000 minors on our southern border without their parents or guardians.
ICE is seeking the services of a responsible vendor that shares the philosophy of treating all UAC with dignity and respect, while adhering to standard operating procedures and policies that allow for an effective, efficient, and incident free transport. The Contractor shall provide unarmed escort staff, including management, supervision, manpower, training, certifications, licenses, drug testing, equipment, and supplies necessary to provide on-demand escort services for non-criminal/non-delinquent unaccompanied alien children ages infant to 17 years of age, seven (7) days a week, 365 days a year.
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There will be approximately 65,000 UAC in total: 25% local ground transport, 25% via ICE charter and 50% via commercial air. Escort services include, but are not limited to, assisting with: transferring physical custody of UAC from DHS to Health and Human Services (HHS) care via ground or air methods of transportation (charter or commercial carrier), property inventory, providing juveniles with meals, drafting reports, generating transport documents, maintaining/stocking daily supplies, providing and issuing clothing as needed, coordinating with DHS and HHS staff, travel coordination, limited stationary guard services to accommodate for trip disruptions due to inclement weather, faulty equipment, or other exigent circumstances. In emergency situations, the Contractor shall be called on to provide temporary shelter
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The estimate of the children who have entered the US illegally recently is 65,000.
Imagine that.
Bawney Fwank opening his basement for such services as we speak.
Because words, conscious nor the law are gonna.
Ah yes, the Cloward and Piven immigration strategy.
If it was posted on FedBiz Ops in January, there is a paper trail showing when the solicitation or pre-solicitation was generated after a decision was made to orchestrate this border over-run.
This would indicate that this event, starting at the first of June, was planned in the fall of last year by the Obama Administration. Therefore, six to eight months where the event could have been stopped by responsible members of an Executive Branch were wasted as they planned to first allow it and then to pay for its impact by allowing the cost to hit our Treasury.
I’m betting that there were and are a lot hard drive crashes at DHS today. Or as this administration has done before they could be using their own personal computers to transact government business of the official record.
How in the world were this many unaccompanied children allowed to come across the border? Did ICE escort them over?
Why didn’t they just redirect their normal budget for escort services?
Oh wait, that was National Security not Homeland Security.
I am also of the opinion that this is why the Feds were (are?) buying up a lot of the MRE and long term food storage products.
For the first half century after the American Revolution started, we used to get fewer than that many immigrants, per decade!
The really telling ones: the toddlers that magically appear with “nobody around”.
How in the world were this many unaccompanied children allowed to come across the border? Did ICE escort them over?
I can’t imagine a sane parents pushing their children north 1000 miles through Mexico with out a secure transport. Probably from Obama’s people.
Please post the solicitation number. Even if it is archived, you should still be able to see the solicitation.
uh, ping....
I thought “alien” was racist.
I guess it is “illegal” that is...
Homeland Security is the thug arm of the Democrat party...
Leased Parking Spaces-Jersey City
REQIG-14-00045
X — Lease or rental of facilities Department of Homeland Security
DHS Office of the Inspector General
DHS Office of the Inspector General Combined Synopsis/Solicitation (Modified) Mar 21, 2014 Apr 08, 2014 4:53 am
Leased Parking Spaces-WFO
REQIG-14-00104
X — Lease or rental of facilities Department of Homeland Security
DHS Office of the Inspector General
DHS Office of the Inspector General Combined Synopsis/Solicitation (Modified) Mar 21, 2014 Apr 08, 2014 4:53 am
Mass Transit tickets/passes for San Francisco, San Diego, and Boston
HSIGAQ-14-Q-00001
V — Transportation, travel, & relocation services Department of Homeland Security
DHS Office of the Inspector General
DHS Office of the Inspector General Combined Synopsis/Solicitation (Modified) Jan 22, 2014 Feb 08, 2014 4:45 am
TeamMate Software License Renewal
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D — Information technology services, including telecommunications services Department of Homeland Security
DHS Office of the Inspector General
DHS Office of the Inspector General Special Notice Jan 02, 2014 Jan 22, 2014 4:42 am
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This is all I got...Parking space leasing requests...So some more info would be nice.
Wouldn’t it be criminal for me to support this, and the the other multitude of illegal acts committed by this administration, by paying my income taxes?
Ok found this under
“Procurement Type: Request for Information (RFI)/Sources Sought
Title: Escort Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children
Classification Code: V- Transportation/Travel/Relocation
NAICS code: 561612
Primary POC: Rachel Ali, Contract Specialist/ Rachel.Ali@ice.dhs.gov
Secondary POC: Tony Ross, Contracting Officer/ Tony.Ross@ice.dhs.gov
A. Introduction
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has a continuing and mission critical responsibility for accepting custody of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) from U.S. Border Patrol and other Federal agencies and transporting these juveniles to Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters located throughout the continental United States. ICE is seeking the services of a responsible vendor that shares the philosophy of treating all UAC with dignity and respect, while adhering to standard operating procedures and policies that allow for an effective, efficient, and incident free transport. The Contractor shall provide unarmed escort staff, including management, supervision, manpower, training, certifications, licenses, drug testing, equipment, and supplies necessary to provide on-demand escort services for non-criminal/non-delinquent unaccompanied alien children ages infant to 17 years of age, seven (7) days a week, 365 days a year. Transport will be required for either category of UAC or individual juveniles, to include both male and female juveniles. There will be approximately 65,000 UAC in total: 25% local ground transport, 25% via ICE charter and 50% via commercial air. Escort services include, but are not limited to, assisting with: transferring physical custody of UAC from DHS to Health and Human Services (HHS) care via ground or air methods of transportation (charter or commercial carrier), property inventory, providing juveniles with meals, drafting reports, generating transport documents, maintaining/stocking daily supplies, providing and issuing clothing as needed, coordinating with DHS and HHS staff, travel coordination, limited stationary guard services to accommodate for trip disruptions due to inclement weather, faulty equipment, or other exigent circumstances. In emergency situations, the Contractor shall be called on to provide temporary shelter locations (such as trailers) with shower facilities for juveniles who are pending placement with HHS when bed space is unavailable nationwide for extended periods of time. The Contractor shall provide temporary guard services and other support as necessary during these emergencies.
In addition, the Contractor shall have personnel who are able to communicate with juveniles in their own designated language(s). While this may not require each employee to be fluent in all of the encountered languages, personnel should have access to and knowledge of translation services.
B. ICE Standards/Special Requirements
The contractor is required to perform in accordance with the ICE Performance Based National Detention Standards (PBNDS 2011), all ICE policies related to the transportation of juveniles (see the ICE Family Residential Standards at http://www.ice.gov/detention-standards/family-residential/) as well as the Flores Settlement Agreement, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, and the Homeland Security Act of 2002. In cases where other standards conflict with DHS/ICE Policy or Standards, DHS/ICE Policy and Standards will prevail. ICE Inspectors will conduct periodic inspections to assure compliance of the aforementioned standards.
Personnel shall have the knowledge and experience to transport individual children with special needs. Often times, children with special needs may require a transportation method that is time saving and direct, i.e. by commercial airline. Contractor shall also provide for accompanying medical care. Additionally, due to exigent circumstances, the Contractor shall be required to transport juveniles via ground to HUB airports or other staging areas that are not located within the area of initial apprehension.
The Contractor shall follow a fully developed training curriculum and transporting staff shall have the highest level of competency possible. Areas of training shall include, but are not limited to the following: Airport rules and regulations for travelers, crisis intervention, child development, working with and transporting youth with special needs, transporting youth with behavioral problems, CPR & First Aid training, non-secured UAC policy and procedures and the implementation of contingency plans in the event of a crisis during transport, which include de-escalation techniques.
• Background Investigations and Suitability Screenings will be conducted on all Contract Employees by the Office of Professional Responsibility and Personnel Security Unit (OPR-OSU).
• The Contractor shall agree that each employee working on this contract will successfully pass the DHS Employment Eligibility (E-Verify) program operated by USICS to establish work authorization and U.S. Citizenship.
• Employees must reside in the United States.
C. Contract Type
The Government anticipates awarding a five (5) year Fixed Price Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle consisting of a one year base period, and four (4) option years. The Service Contract
Act is applicable to this acquisition. All required clauses, provisions will be included in the solicitation and resulting contractual instrument.
The anticipated release date of the solicitation is March 3, 2014. The solicitation closing date will be thirty (30) days after release of the Request for Proposal (RFP).
Projected Set-Aside: All business sizes are welcome to participate; however, ICE is trying to determine small business interest, particularly HubZone companies. All information received in response in to this notice will be used to determine the appropriateness of any small business set-aside for this requirement.
D. Place of Performance:
Service Area: Throughout the Continental United States (US)
The area(s) or region(s) serviced may occur either with a phased approach over a period of several months to a full year. Alternatively, the Contractor shall perform the entire transportation function upon full funding. For example, the following two circumstances may occur: (1) The contractor could initially provide transportation services only in the Southwest Region of the U.S. for those juveniles who are apprehended in the state of Texas; or, (2) The Contractor may be required to provide transportation services for all juveniles who are in DHS custody throughout the continental U.S.
E. RFI Purpose/Requirements
The purpose of this RFI is to obtain market information and capabilities for planning purposes and to determine appropriate strategies to meet the Agency’s requirements. This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a commitment for an RFP in the future. Responses to this notice are not considered offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responders are advised that the Government will not pay for any information or administrative cost incurred in response to this announcement and information submitted in response to this RFI will not be returned.
Interested parties are instructed to submit the following information: (Note: Please do not exceed 5 pages per RFI submission)
• POC information (name, title, phone number, address, email address, etc.)
• Socio-economic status
• Brief Company Capability statement (to include addressing all special needs as stated above)
F. Submissions and Point of Contact Information
Submit written or electronic submissions via email to Rachel.Ali@ice.dhs.gov by 1:00pm EST on Monday, February 19, 2014.
End of RFI”
Listed as:
Escort Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children
BERKS-RFI
V — Transportation, travel, & relocation services Department of Homeland Security
Immigration & Customs Enforcement
ICE-OAQ-DM Sources Sought Jan 29, 2014 Mar 06, 2014 4:45 am
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