ICE's Nationwide Co-Working Solicitation Has Advanced — and the Agency Says the Space Isn't for Law Enforcement
New documents show ICE's co-working push has become a live contract, with a targeted June start date and 330 personnel whose job functions the solicitation does not identify.
A federal solicitation reviewed by Project Salt Box shows that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has moved well beyond preliminary planning in its effort to place hundreds of employees in commercial co-working spaces across the country — and a key clarification buried in the procurement record complicates the picture.
Co-working spaces are shared commercial offices — operated by companies like WeWork or IWG — that rent desks and private offices to individuals and organizations on flexible, short-term terms rather than traditional multi-year leases. Tenants typically share common areas, Wi-Fi, and amenities with other businesses and may occupy the same floor as unrelated private-sector companies.
As Project Salt Box previously reported, ICE published a request for information in March seeking flexible office space for more than 300 personnel in nearly 100 cities across 42 states and Puerto Rico. That market research has since become a live solicitation — number 70CMSW26Q00000009 — issued through ICE’s Office of Asset and Facilities Management.
ICE is seeking space for 330 full-time employees across 90 locations, from Houston, where 22 workers would be placed, to more than a dozen cities where a single desk would suffice. Vendors who win the contract would have 15 business days from award to stand up all locations simultaneously. The period of performance runs from June 1, 2026 through May 31, 2027, with leases covering a desk or private office, Wi-Fi, and printing access, and the ability to scale headcount up or down at any location after award.
But a question-and-answer document appended to the solicitation cuts against the most obvious explanation for the expansion. Asked whether the spaces are intended for uniformed officers, administrative staff, or a combination, the government’s answer was unambiguous: “This requirement is not intended for law enforcement officers.”
Use the map below to see each requested location and the number of employees ICE has slated for it, according to documents attached to the submission.
Geographically, the solicitation is broad. Locations include predictable urban enforcement hubs — New York, Miami, Houston — alongside smaller cities with no immediately apparent connection to immigration operations, among them Savage, Mont., Concho, Ariz., and Bryan, Texas.
Two listed locations, Crawford, R.I., and Maynes, Wis., do not correspond to any recognized municipalities.
Vendors have some flexibility on location. An alternative facility may be substituted for any listed city, provided it falls within 45 driving miles. Specific facility names and addresses are required at the time of quote submission, but those details are not made public through the solicitation itself.
Bids are being solicited under North American Industry Classification System — or NAICS — code 531120, which covers operators of nonresidential buildings, with an applicable size standard of $34 million in average annual receipts. Companies that did not respond to the original March request for information remain eligible to bid. Any changes to the location list or headcount after award would be handled through negotiated contract modifications. The solicitation does not include a contract ceiling or cost estimate. A pricing template attached to the documents breaks out costs by city and headcount, but no figures have been disclosed.
ICE has not said publicly who the 330 personnel are. This is, by the government’s own account, without precedent. Asked about past performance on similar workspace contracts, the contracting office stated that no previous comparable contracts have been awarded.
Folks who are looking to push back, we've got a sample letter you can send to co-working space owners and their agents demanding they not sign contracts with ICE and CBP: https://susanrogan.substack.com/i/192679680/ice-agents-at-the-next-desk-at-wework
So ICE wants to use another companies WiFi, integrate into the company’s network system and physical infrastructure and what? SPY on Americans?
Appears the Epstein strategy has taken a new spin.