Actually, somebody should call the Contracting Specialist listed in the announcement to find out if the contract has been awarded, and if so, to what company.
The Contracting Specialist was/is involved in Mission Essential Contracting for TSA and ICE. This means the contract was being tracked in their acquisition processes by senior management. The RFI prior to the solicitation means they were trying to implement the contract within seeks to months, and well before the end of the fiscal year.
This implies their management is reacting, instead of responding, to planned surge of “UACs” from another arm.
FWIW, the announcement was posted on some conservative websites back in February and March, so I suspect they’ve already been inundated with calls.
The real tell is simply to observe who is transporting the children now. If it’s the ‘brownshirts’, then instead of contracting out an apparantly required service beyond their staffing skill sets, it appears somebody is directing a prototype operation to hone their command and control operations over large bodies of people within their chain of command so they can extend their reach.
The scary thing is understanding their implied intentions for building such a machine.
Sure smells similar to organizing lines of communication and logistics for producing new concentration camps by the Obama Administration. Running metrics and testing the capacity of their systems.