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Biz Opps: ICE looking for Miami-area detention facility

By Louis Chunovic, Senior Editor

Published August 11th, 2008

Detention Center

The Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) unit is seeking a qualified source to provide an existing contractor-owned detention facility within 50 miles of the DHS/ICE Miami field office, located at 865 SW 78th Avenue, Plantation, FL. The facility will accommodate up to 700 non-criminal alien detainees, along with additional capacity to house up to 10 percent of the maximum population in a special segregation housing unit. The facility will need to be operational and capable of accepting detainees by April 1, 2009. The contractor will be responsible for all personnel, management, equipment, supplies and services necessary for performance of all aspects of the contract. Response date is Aug. 14, 2008. For additional information, contact, , contracting specialist, at 202-353-4019.


The U.S. Coast Guard is seeking a contractor to provide and operate a vessel that will support the USCG’s aviation training program at Air Station Miami, FL. Specifically, the contractor will provide all necessary management, supervision, personnel, labor, materials, fuel and equipment necessary for the vessel to support helicopter hoisting and fixed-wing aerial delivery by Air Station aircraft. The vessel will be used in Search and Rescue training, which includes helicopter hoists of equipment to/from underway vessels, helicopter delivery/recovery of rescue swimmers to/from the water and fixed-wing aerial delivery of de-watering pumps and other equipment to the water. The vessel shall be no smaller than 38 feet and no longer than 65 feet in length and shall have at least an 11-foot beam. The maximum draft of the vessel shall not exceed 4 feet. Gross vessel weight shall be a minimum of 10 tons. The vessel must be capable of easily recovering personnel from the water. The vessel must be capable of maintaining 10 knots transit speed for a minimum of three hours. Response date is Aug. 22, 2008. For additional information, contact, , supply officer, at 305-953-2193.


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