HHS Awards Palantir $12M SHARE BPA Task Order for ACF Unaccompanied Children Bureau Expansion — Task Order 75P00124F37005

The HHS Program Support Center issued task order 75P00124F37005 to Palantir Technologies — total contract value $12,052,896, initial action obligation $4,000,000, period of performance September 21, 2024 through September 20, 2026 — under the $90M SHARE BPA (parent IDV 75P00122A00010). The task order’s scope was “HHS CARES – ACF UCBC Expansion and Support.”

ACF UCBC is the Administration for Children and Families Unaccompanied Children Bureau — the HHS unit administered by the Office of Refugee Resettlement that holds custody of unaccompanied immigrant minors. Per ORR, the UC program has placed over 800,000 unaccompanied children with sponsors since inception. The Bureau’s data holdings include each unaccompanied child’s personally identifiable information, the adult sponsor’s name and address, and the sponsor’s own immigration status as declared in the sponsorship process.

Awarded under the Biden administration, the task order extended Palantir’s Foundry platform to the ACF UCBC dataset — the sponsor-household data layer that would become operationally significant in 2025 under the second Trump administration’s deportation-targeting architecture. HHS’s own AI Use Case Inventory subsequently documented Palantir in more than 15 HHS use cases with the majority concentrated within ACF, including an “agentic AI” deployment specifically related to unaccompanied children in government care.

The data integration pathway: ACF UCBC holds sponsor-household data → Palantir Foundry (under this task order) ingests and integrates it → the integrated dataset becomes queryable alongside CMS Medicaid data (per the July 2025 CMS-ICE data-sharing agreement) → Palantir’s ELITE tool uses the combined dataset for deportation targeting of both unaccompanied minors and their sponsor households.

The task order was issued by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration (ASA) Program Support Center with only one bidder competing. The single-bidder pattern across all documented SHARE task orders makes substantive procurement competition structurally absent from the BPA’s task-order architecture. See hhs-palantir-cluster for the personnel-level pattern under which the BPA operates.