- The five-year agreement drew one bidder
- ICE withdrew a sole-source plan for the same work in August after industry pushback
- Work will support screening, vetting and investigative analytics for Homeland Security Investigations
Thomson Reuters Special Services, or TRSS, has won a five-year blanket purchase agreement worth up to $125 million to provide data analytic support services to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, OrangeSlices AI reported Thursday.
The award drew a single bidder. It runs against a General Services Administration schedule contract.
The agreement follows ICE’s August withdrawal of a plan to award the same work to TRSS without competition, Biometric Update reported.
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What Led to the Competitive Award?
ICE posted a request for information in May 2025 seeking companies able to support screening and vetting, lead development, and criminal analysis, and said at the time it anticipated competing the work as a single-award blanket purchase agreement.
The agency received more than 50 responses and identified seven small businesses and 10 large businesses as capable of the general type of work, according to a justification document.
ICE subsequently revised the requirement around proprietary capabilities and concluded that only TRSS could meet it. The agency updated its notice Aug. 12 to state it no longer intended to sole-source the work, citing industry feedback, and removed the justification document.
What Does the ICE Contract Work Cover?
A prior DHS acquisition forecast detailed plans for a labor-hour BPA running through September 2031 to support Homeland Security Investigations with screening, vetting, lead generation and criminal analysis. The withdrawn justification outlined requirements for continuous monitoring of up to 1 million entities, event-driven alerts, risk-scoring models, automated data ingestion and graph-based anomaly detection, Biometric Update reported.
That document cited TRSS products, including CLEAR, the company’s investigative research platform that consolidates public and proprietary records from government sources, private data providers and data brokers.
