ICE Posts Emergency SAM.gov Solicitation for 5,500 Detention Beds Across Seattle, Denver, Philadelphia, Miami — Courts Embedded On-Site

ICE published a solicitation on July 29 seeking contractors to stand up turnkey detention facilities near Seattle (1,500 beds), Denver (1,500), the Philadelphia field-office area (1,800), and Miami (700) — all required to be operational within 30 days of contract award. Each facility must include five immigration courtrooms and ICE attorney offices, embedding immigration courts inside the detention facility itself. The sub-week response window signals a no-competition IGSA acquisition method. The expansion is part of the administration’s $38.3B build-out targeting 92,600 total detention beds, alongside eight planned mega-centers of up to 10,000 detainees each.

The courtroom-embedded design is a due-process flashpoint: it moves immigration proceedings inside the carceral apparatus itself rather than through independent courts, echoing the same-week ICE arrest-record announcement (2026-07-29–ice-100k-bed-push-june-arrests-record-43000). Watch which for-profit operators (GEO Group, CoreCivic, Amentum, LaSalle) win the four contracts — that award pattern will indicate further consolidation in the detention-industrial complex the corpus already tracks through Camp East Montana (2026-07-27–ice-extends-amentum-no-bid-776m-camp-east-montana) and the Hudson, CO GEO Group contract (2026-07-09–geo-group-529m-hudson-colorado-big-horn-detention-contract).