ICE Shock Gloves: The $16.7M Compliant Technologies Award Hidden Behind "Conductive Energy Devices"
On Aug 26, 2026 ICE signed 70CMSW26C00000012 for $16,700,640 to Compliant Technologies LLC. Search shock gloves on USASpending and you get zero rows. The award text says conductive energy and de-escalation devices. Here is the PIID, the sole-source code, the Axon stack in the same office, and the Feb 27 2027 clock.
Search shock gloves. You get nothing.
That is the free aha, and it is why this award is going to get miscounted by every dashboard that treats the description field as a product catalog. On Aug 26, 2026, ICE signed 70CMSW26C00000012 for $16,700,640 to Compliant Technologies LLC. The public description does not mention gloves. It says the award is to purchase conductive energy and de-escalation devices for law enforcement agents under the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs.
Reporting on the award (FedScoop, CBS, Aug 27-28 2026) fills in the product: Compliant Technologies' G.L.O.V.E. (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter). About 6,000 to 6,650 units. About $2,495 a pair. A six-month buy. Sole source.
If you sell less-lethal gear, training, detention equipment, or anything into ICE OFTP, this is not a news story. It is a locked incumbent, a hidden keyword, and a Feb 27, 2027 clock.
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The award, from the record
Pulled from USASpending.gov award `CONT_AWD_70CMSW26C00000012_7012_-NONE-_-NONE-` on Sep 8, 2026.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| PIID | 70CMSW26C00000012 |
| Recipient | COMPLIANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC |
| UEI | FULMK571MMK5 |
| Amount obligated | $16,700,640 |
| Base and all options | $16,700,640 (no option tree on the record) |
| Date signed | 2026-08-26 |
| Period of performance | 2026-08-28 to 2027-02-27 |
| Awarding agency | DHS / ICE |
| Office | Mission Support Washington |
| Type | Definitive contract, firm-fixed-price |
| Extent competed | Not competed |
| Offers received | 1 |
| Authority | Only one source - other (FAR 6.302-1 other) |
| Solicitation procedure | Only one source |
| Set-aside | None |
| Commercial item | Yes |
| NAICS | 423850 (service establishment equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers) |
| PSC | 8470 (armor, personal) under FSC 84 (clothing, individual equipment) |
| Place of performance | Nicholasville, KY 40356 (Jessamine County) |
Recipient location on the award: 1191 Crenshaw Ln, Nicholasville, KY 40356. USASpending business categories include veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned, plus not designated a small business. The set-aside field is still none. They did not need a set-aside. They had only-one-source.
Why "shock gloves" never shows up
USASpending `spending_by_award` keyword search on shock gloves, electrocution gloves, stun gloves, and G.L.O.V.E. returned zero rows on Sep 8, 2026. Search Compliant Technologies or the PIID and the award appears immediately.
That is a capture failure mode, not a data-quality footnote. BD teams who monitor "less-lethal" or "gloves" will miss a $16.7M ICE buy coded as:
If your alert is built on product slang, this award never fires. If your alert is built on office + recipient + PSC 84, it does.
Same office, second conductive-energy stack
ICE did not replace Axon. It stacked a contact-shock glove on top of a TASER franchise that was already writing checks the same month.
Keyword TASER under ICE (2018 through Sep 8, 2026) returns about $18.5M across the first page of results. Recipients are mostly Axon Enterprise, Inc. and reseller Aardvark. Recent Axon ICE delivery orders from the same firearms / tactical shop:
| PIID | Amount | Date | What the description says |
|---|---|---|---|
| 70CMSW26FR0000045 | $17,766,998 | 2026-07-20 | Body-worn cameras for OFTP |
| 70CMSW26FR0000046 | $13,128,180 | 2026-07-17 | Body-worn cameras for OFTP |
| 70CMSW26FR0000055 | $5,777,050 | 2026-08-22 | TASER Core and sustainment |
| 70CMSW25FR0000132 | $3,846,870 | 2025-09-26 | TASER supplies / cartridges |
| 70CMSW25FR0000137 | $3,527,757 | 2025-09-30 | TASER weapons and replacement supplies |
| 70CMSW23FR0000113 | $3,762,500 | 2023-09-27 | Non-lethal CEW equipment, T10 |
The TASER Core order is Aug 22. The glove award is Aug 26. Four days. Same component. Same mission office. Different OEM.
That is the public-safety stack pattern again: Axon owns the field-to-evidence layer (camera + TASER). Compliant Technologies just took the hands-on contact layer. Cellebrite still owns the phone. None of those layers show up if you only search the brand the newspaper used.
What the sole-source code actually means
FAR 6.302-1 is only-one-source. ICE's justification, as reported by FedScoop, is that no other company sells this device. The FPDS fields match that story: not competed, one offer, only one source, no set-aside, plan not required.
So what for a bidder:
Company card
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Legal name | Compliant Technologies LLC |
| UEI | FULMK571MMK5 |
| HQ on the award | 1191 Crenshaw Ln, Nicholasville, KY 40356 |
| Product | G.L.O.V.E. (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter) |
| Federal book we can see | This award. USASpending recipient search on the name returns this $16.7M row as the live federal footprint. |
| Competition posture | Only-one-source OEM. Not an IDIQ vehicle you can ride. |
This is a Carbyne-shaped federal file with the opposite problem. Carbyne was strategically huge and almost invisible in USASpending. Compliant Technologies is one line, and that one line is the entire story until a follow-on posts.
Where BD still gets in
How to check this yourself in 10 minutes
Bottom line
A Kentucky LLC just became ICE's sole-source supplier for a contact electroshock glove, on a six-month $16.7M definitive contract, coded as personal armor, described as conductive energy devices, and signed four days after the same office bought TASER Core from Axon.
The newspaper story is the glove. The contractor story is the keyword trap and the Feb 27, 2027 clock.
Run the search. Compliant Technologies on Fed-Spend is free. Then score the OFTP adjacency or watch the UEI.
Primary sources: USASpending.gov award `CONT_AWD_70CMSW26C00000012_7012_-NONE-_-NONE-` (pulled Sep 8, 2026); USASpending `spending_by_award` keyword samples for shock gloves / G.L.O.V.E. / Compliant Technologies / TASER / AXON under ICE; FedScoop "ICE moves forward on procuring thousands of shock gloves" (Aug 28, 2026); CBS News (Aug 27, 2026).
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