A contractor based on Henrico County has joined a massive federal effort to expand the Executive Ordinance issued in January.
Acquisition Logistics LLC with headquarters in the Tuckahoe District from Henrico on July 18, a Treaty of the US Army was awarded a contract of the US Army in order to build up and operate a short-term prison of 5,000 beds in El Paso, Texas. The facility is said to have housed the people specified by US immigration and customs authorities.
While the contract was originally reported as USD 231.8 million, a correction issued by the US Department of Defense later submitted that the cumulative nominal value of the award was around 1.24 billion US dollars, which increased the operations and the scale of the work expected by the small Henrico company.
The Disaster Management Group is also a subcontractor who supports the project's competition. The company based in Florida belongs to Nathan Albers, who recently reported that Prublica had previously guilty for a schemeto setting from 2019 and that workers from federal immigration officers hide without papers.
The Disaster Management Group would help build the new facility and to receive a significant amount of the forecast 1.2 billion US dollars that the government has assigned to the project.
According to DOD, 13 offers were submitted to the contract, which is to be carried out by September 2027. If the project remains on schedule, the first prisoners can arrive in mid -2026.
The step takes place in the middle of a more comprehensive political shifts, the Executive Order 14159, which was created by President Donald Trump in January and the federal authorities, which demonstrates to expand immigration and to accelerate the deportation efforts.
The arrangement gives the US Ministry of Homeland Protection and ice width that are looking for and secure new detention areas, including in federal state and through contracts with private companies.
VPM News made several attempts to contact the acquisition president Ken Wagner and the COO Darrin Armentrout, but a representative of the company did not answer an interview before being published.
The large sum and the yardstick of this project are an important pivot point for acquisition logistics, which apparently seems to be identified by a residential address and contains little to no publicly available records on the management of immigration facilities.
The acquisition logistics were founded in 2008, according to the Virginia State Corporation Commission Commission. According to federal notes, it is as logistical support services for various government agencies as a minority ownership, veteran ownership and small businesses in the past.
The company received contracts between 380,000 and 15 million US dollars and worked with military branches and companies such as the Navy, the Air Force and the Ministry of Justice.
Fort Bliss's referee could accommodate more prisoners than many existing ice cream locations, and since it is located on the state, this project avoids some of the regulatory hurdles and zone conflicts that would otherwise slow its development. For comparison, the ice processing center in South Texas in Pearsall has a capacity of 1,904 beds.
The army and ice cream have also published no further details about the construction or personnel plan for the Fort Bliss facility. VPM News made calls and e -mails to public information officers in Fort Bliss and El Pasos ICE field office, in which further information about the project was requested.
A Fort Bliss spokesman refused to comment on the project, while repeated attempts to turn before the publication were not contacted with ICE representatives.