By Greg Hazley
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has pulled the plug on a planned RFP for PR services to support its Office of Secure Communities initiative.
Agencies were notified on Jan. 5, just two days after the ICE set a Jan. 11 date to release the RFP.
A Dept. of Homeland Security official overseeing the search told O’Dwyer’s that ICE management determined that the work could be performed in-house by government personnel at this time.
The Secure Communities program combines data from the Dept. of Homeland Security and Dept. of Justice to identify aliens arrested by local authorities and has drawn a legal challenge and some criticism since it was implemented in 2008. The program is slated to go national in 2013.
The federal agency first notified firms in December that it planned to conduct the search for PR help on a contract that could stretch five years.
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