Which contracts specifically list Palantir, Clearview, PenLink, or CACI as ICE vendors and what are their award values?
Executive summary
ICE has publicly documented and widely reported contracts naming Palantir and Clearview AI with specific award values: Palantir was awarded a roughly $30 million modification to build an “ImmigrationOS” platform (Federal Contract ID 70CTD022FR0000170) [1] [2] [3] [4], and Clearview is reported to have a $9.2 million HSI contract for facial‑recognition services [5] [6]. Reporting also attributes roughly $5 million in purchases of PenLink tools to ICE, but primary contract documents for PenLink and any explicit CACI award values to ICE are not present in the provided sources [7] [8].
1. Palantir — ImmigrationOS / Investigative Case Management: a $30 million, sole‑source modification on record
Multiple contract notices and investigative reports identify a Palantir award tied to ICE’s Immigration Lifecycle Operating System (ImmigrationOS) and related Investigative Case Management (ICM) work: a mid‑April modification to the Palantir contract, listed under federal contract ID 70CTD022FR0000170, is described in contemporaneous coverage and contract summaries as a $30 million award to develop ImmigrationOS with an expected prototype delivery timeline in 2025 [1] [2] [3] [4]. Industry reporting and a SAM.gov procurement notice indicate ICE framed parts of the ICM procurement as sole‑source to Palantir due to interoperability and schedule requirements [9]. Some outlets also reference larger ceiling figures or program totals tied to multi‑award vehicles involving Palantir (for example, reporting of a deal “up to $157.5 million”), but the clearest specific, documented modification value present in the supplied sources is the $30 million award for ImmigrationOS/related ICM work [10] [4].
2. Clearview AI — a documented $9.2 million HSI award for facial recognition
Multiple independent outlets and contract trackers report that ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations entered into a $9.2 million contract with Clearview AI for facial‑recognition software — presented as Clearview’s largest government award to date and explicitly tied to investigative and identification use cases [5] [6]. Coverage frames the award as for HSI operations including agent‑assault investigations and broader identification tasks, and contract‑tracking summaries reiterate the $9.2 million figure [5] [6]. Some advocacy reporting and secondary articles cite other smaller Clearview transactions in previous years (e.g., $1.1M or $800k) but within the supplied sources the $9.2M HSI award is the principal explicit recent figure [11] [5].
3. PenLink — reporting ties roughly $5 million of tool purchases to ICE, but primary contract docs limited
Press coverage and investigative pieces attribute approximately $5 million in spending to PenLink for social‑media and open‑source intelligence tools (two products often named as Tangles and Webloc), and several reports cite Forbes and TechCrunch figures that ICE spent about $5 million on PenLink’s tools [7] [12]. Cybersecurity and advocacy writeups repeat similar totals and discuss PenLink’s role in aggregating communications and location intelligence for enforcement, but the supplied set does not include a direct ICE award document or federal contract ID for PenLink in order to independently verify line‑item award language or contract numbers [7] [8] [12].
4. CACI — no explicit ICE contract value in the provided reporting
Among the sources supplied there are references to contractors generally associated with surveillance ecosystems that have included companies like CACI, but none of the provided documents or news items contain an explicit ICE contract award listing CACI with a dollar value or a contract identifier; therefore this record set does not substantiate any specific CACI award amounts to ICE (the absence of a cited CACI contract in the provided sources is a limitation of the current reporting) [12].
5. Important caveats: different storylines, overlapping figures, and reporting gaps
The public record here mixes primary contract artifacts (a Palantir federal contract ID on usaspending and ICE PDF contracts referenced in reporting) with investigative and secondary press totals that sometimes aggregate program ceilings or multiple modifications into single totals (e.g., reporting that cites both $30M orders and larger program ceilings or prior smaller Clearview purchases) — readers should note that some outlets synthesize contract modifications, multi‑year ceilings, and procurement notices into headline figures, and the supplied sources sometimes repeat those synthesized numbers without attaching a direct federal award document to each claim [2] [10] [11] [4]. Where direct contract IDs or government procurement pages are cited (e.g., Palantir’s 70CTD022FR0000170 reference), that strengthens the attribution; where only press reporting or advocacy trackers are cited (PenLink, some Clearview histories), the exact procurement instrument or award line‑item is not included in the supplied sources and thus cannot be independently confirmed here [2] [7] [5].
Bottom line
Based on the provided materials, Palantir is explicitly tied to a roughly $30 million ICE modification to build ImmigrationOS/ICM under federal contract ID 70CTD022FR0000170 [1] [2] [3] [4], Clearview AI is reported to have a $9.2 million HSI contract [5] [6], and PenLink is repeatedly reported as costing ICE about $5 million for social‑media/OSINT tools though primary contract documents were not supplied here [7] [8] [12]; the supplied sources do not include an explicit ICE award listing CACI or a corresponding award value [12]. Further confirmation would require direct procurement records or award documents beyond the articles and trackers supplied.