Post

Off topic, but... What is with every contract being sole sourced now? Back in the ancient days when I was doing government work for NASA and others you had to give up your first born to get the gov't to even consider sole sourcing a contract. Now they just hand them out to their friends willy nilly.

Question: isn’t $25M the ceiling for noncompete sole-source contracts under SBA 8(a), requiring ICE to provide a written justification to Congress? I wrote about a similar OMP contract awarded to Bering Straits here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/did-elon-j...

Sadly, in October 2025, they upped the new threshold to $30,000,000. www.acquisition.gov/threshold-ch...

Ah, thank you. And also AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH

If these facilities are actually mothballed, then it seems fine that Indigenous groups get some government money. But what happens if they ever get UNmothballed? At one time the infamous Tacoma ICE facility was supposed to be shut down...

So we're warehousing the warehouses now?