ICE Awards Compliant Technologies $16.7M Contract for Electric Shock Gloves, Below the $20M Solicited

ICE’s Office of Training Tactical Programs signed a $16,700,640 contract (PIID 70CMSW26C00000012) with Compliant Technologies LLC on August 26, 2026 for what the award record describes as “conductive energy and de-escalation devices to support law enforcement agents” (the electric shock gloves of the August 10 solicitation) — $3.3 million below the up-to-$20 million DHS had solicited two weeks earlier (2026-08-10–ice-solicits-20m-compliant-technologies-electric-shock-gloves-sudden-death-warning). The award’s total obligation of $16,700,640 is confirmed directly from the USAspending API record for the award (re-pulled September 30, 2026); the contract description reads “conductive energy and de-escalation devices to support law enforcement agents for the Office of Firearms and Training Program.” The award was sole-sourced — USAspending’s competition fields record “ONLY ONE SOURCE-OTHER (FAR 6.302-1 OTHER),” solicitation procedure “SSS,” and one offer received — meaning the $20M-to-$16.7M gap reflects a negotiated/awarded quantity against a single vendor rather than competitive bidding driving the price down. Period of performance runs August 28, 2026 to February 27, 2027. Place of performance in the award record is Compliant Technologies’ own Nicholasville, Kentucky address (the vendor’s location, not a deployment site); the record carries no facility- or state-level breakdown of where the resulting gloves are issued.

Research into California’s subsequent ban on the device (AB 2760, signed September 29, 2026, 2026-09-29–california-bans-electrical-shock-gloves-ice-dhs-refuses-comply) confirmed this award as the procurement event behind the “6,000 pairs for $16.7 million” figure reported at the time of the ban. The award sits between the August 10 solicitation and the September 29 ban: DHS converted an up-to-$20M notice into a signed, sole-source $16.7M contract within sixteen days, and delivery continues past the date California’s ban takes effect in 2027 — meaning gloves procured under this award will still be arriving as the state prohibition is in force, setting up the DHS “will not abide” posture documented in the September 29 entry.