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ICE Seeks to Buy NII Systems

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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Federal Protective Service (FPS), seeks two Non-Intrusive Inspection Systems, including one relocatable cargo screening system on rails and one mobile vehicle system for low-density cargo. Additionally, the agency seeks training and maintenance of the systems for a base year period and four one-year options. The systems are to enable the FPS to perform NII of conveyances, including trailer trucks, pallets, trailer-mounted cargo containers and other vehicles for contraband such as drugs, weapons and firearms. The…

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