https://bordercontracts.org/changes/Entries added to or corrected in the Border Contracts register.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://bordercontracts.org/contracts/angola-api-pnr-gateway-sita/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/angola-api-pnr-gateway-sita/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSITA said ANAC deployed its API PNR Gateway at Dr. António Agostinho Neto International Airport in a company statement dated 11 December 2025. The statement describes a passenger information centre in Luanda and an adjacent data centre. It identifies API as passport and identity data and PNR as itinerary and booking information. The contract itself was not available in the opened record. Price, signing date, duration, funding, procurement route and ownership terms remain not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/argentina-passport-ecovers-ipesa-hid/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/argentina-passport-ecovers-ipesa-hid/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTArgentina's government announced an award to IPESA, identified as HID's local representative, for electronic-passport covers with copper-wire antennas. The announcement identifies public tender 05/2017 and says the covers are components used with the chip to store biometric and biographical information. This is not an award for every part of the passport system. The government projected annual savings above ARS 60 million, but did not report audited realised savings. The release does not establish the contract price, quantity, duration, signing date or supplier access to personal information.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/argentina-mobile-dni-hid-2019/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/argentina-mobile-dni-hid-2019/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHID announced its selection to supply goID technology for the mobile version of Argentina's national identity document in December 2019. The government-developed Mi Argentina application provided the platform, with Renaper participating in identity verification. The supplier described offline access to the credential and a process to revoke it after loss of a phone. This is a mobile identity programme, distinct from HID's passport component work already recorded in this register. The announcement names the public participants but leaves price, contract term, tender method and contractual data rights unpublished.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/australia-digital-passenger-declaration-accenture/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/australia-digital-passenger-declaration-accenture/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHome Affairs appointed Accenture to deliver a Digital Passenger Declaration intended to replace the paper incoming-passenger card and the earlier COVID-19 declaration. The announced scope included collecting travel and vaccination information before boarding. The government removed the COVID-19 declaration requirement from 6 July 2022 and acknowledged usability concerns. The broader Permissions Capability agreement ended by mutual agreement on 12 August 2022. ANAO later identified procurement shortcomings, its report records both Home Affairs' delivery concerns and Accenture's position on how the contract ended. This is separate from the earlier cancelled Global Digital Platform tender.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/australia-global-digital-platform-visa-tender/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/australia-global-digital-platform-visa-tender/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHome Affairs went to market in 2018 for a platform under which private firms would process visas, detect fraud and recommend decisions, taking a share of each visa fee. Two groups bid: Australian Visa Processing, whose members included PwC and Qantas Ventures, and Australia Post with Accenture. Acting Minister Alan Tudge ended the tender in March 2020. The Canberra Times reported in August 2021 that the plan cost nearly AUD 100 million before it was dropped, and that the replacement permissions capability contracting process would cost AUD 74.9 million, according to Senate estimates evidence. ANAO later documented its cancellation as background to the successor procurement audit.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/australia-passenger-name-records/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/australia-passenger-name-records/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTAustralia's Department of Home Affairs collects passenger name records for international flight risk assessment under section 64AF of the Customs Act 1901. Its official guidance describes crime-related uses, privacy safeguards and disclosure conditions. Passengers can request access to or correction of their records. The page describes the public programme, not a supplier contract. It does not publish a vendor, procurement award, contract price or operating term. No assumption about private ownership or a passenger levy is made from the existence of PNR collection.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/australia-smartgate-contracts/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/australia-smartgate-contracts/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTAustralia runs automated SmartGates at international airports. Vision-Box has supplied departure gates since 2015 and renewed support through 2026 in a 2019 agreement (company statement reported by ID Tech). Amadeus, which owns Vision-Box, announced a multi-year extension on 22 July 2025 covering ten airports and a mid-life upgrade. iTnews reported in November 2019 that a next-generation contactless arrivals trial was paused and that IDEMIA won a AUD 30 million five-year contract to refurbish arrivals gates. ANAO lists a contract-management audit due in March 2027, not a completed adverse or favourable finding.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/bahamas-immigration-integrated-cbn-2016/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/bahamas-immigration-integrated-cbn-2016/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe Bahamian immigration minister's 2017 budget contribution confirms a Canadian Bank Note contract for integrated immigration management. It reports border-system installation at four airports in May 2016 and passport-control kiosks at Nassau in July. Identity, detainee and document-management modules remained in development. The minister described watchlist improvements and outstanding screening and regulatory work. This entry groups the modules in one programme rather than counting each phase separately. The speech does not publish the contract price or term, and departmental budget totals are not treated as this contract's value.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/bahrain-app-evisa-pnr-sita/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/bahrain-app-evisa-pnr-sita/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSITA's 2022 activity report names Bahrain as a customer renewing advance passenger processing and eVisa services, with PNR and risk assessment added. The NPRA website links to the official eVisa service. That link does not identify the supplier or confirm that the 2022 contract remains in force. The status shown here refers to the dated company record. The opened sources do not publish the signing date, price, term, payment arrangement, ownership or data-control clauses.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/bahrain-epassport-hid/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/bahrain-epassport-hid/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHID describes an award for Bahrain's electronic-passport system, covering enrolment, personalisation and issuance software with chip operating technology. Its English release prints 13 March 2022, but the Spanish version prints 13 March 2023. This entry uses the later dated award announcement without treating either publication date as the signing date. The company describes biometric and biographical information held on the passport chip, not a published central-database retention policy. Contract value, procurement route, operating term and independent acceptance are not established by these releases.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/bangladesh-epassport-egates-veridos/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/bangladesh-epassport-egates-veridos/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTVeridos, a joint venture of Giesecke+Devrient and state-owned Bundesdruckerei, announced on 19 July 2018 a contract worth about EUR 340 million with Bangladesh's Department of Immigration and Passport. The 12-year deal covers e-passport enrolment, personalisation and local booklet assembly, public key infrastructure, a verification platform and 50 eGates at airports, seaports and land ports. Germany's Minister of State Niels Annen spoke at the signing. The company statement did not say how the contract is funded or how it was procured.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/bangladesh-border-management-securiport-proposal/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/bangladesh-border-management-securiport-proposal/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSecuriport approached Bangladesh in July 2026 with a plan for an integrated border management network covering API and PNR, e-visa and travel authorisation, biometric checks, watch lists and Interpol links. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved evaluation on 9 September 2026 and the Ministry of Home Affairs set up a steering committee with a fee-rate committee. The proposed route is direct procurement needing Cabinet approval. No value or fee was published. A full technical and financial proposal was due by 22 October 2026.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/barbados-epassport-hid-2022/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/barbados-epassport-hid-2022/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHID announced a three-year supply agreement for Barbados electronic passports in February 2022. It covered a redesigned booklet, issuance software and personalisation equipment, plus a recovery issuance site at the airport and support for the main site. The home affairs minister described the remaining design and recovery-site work in the supplier announcement. This entry dates the award evidence to that release, without assuming that the three-year agreement remains active. The publication describes encryption but does not disclose contract price, procurement method, system ownership or detailed data-access terms.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/belgium-digital-wallet-certificates-zetes/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/belgium-digital-wallet-certificates-zetes/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTZetes announced on 30 June 2026 that it would issue electronic-signature certificates and host a signature environment for Belgium's MyGov.be wallet. It describes a government signing service and a planned transition to the EU Digital Identity Wallet. This record covers the announced certificate service, not an immigration-clearance system or evidence of complete wallet deployment. The contracting agency, award value, procurement route and term are not published. The vendor's privacy and security descriptions are not independent findings. Detailed contractual data rules remain not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/belgium-eid-zetes-2018/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/belgium-eid-zetes-2018/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTZetes announced two Belgian Ministry of the Interior contract awards on 8 October 2018. One covers production and personalisation of electronic identity cards, children's cards and residence documents. The other covers their authentication and signature certificates. The company describes a ten-year arrangement extending card supply through 2028. This entry groups the two awards announced together and does not count the separate digital-wallet programme. The source is a company statement, not a public acceptance report. It does not disclose prices, payment terms, asset ownership or retention periods.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/belgium-passport-zetes-thales-2022/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/belgium-passport-zetes-thales-2022/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBelgium's Foreign Affairs ministry named Zetes and Thales as manufacturers of the passport launched on 27 January 2022, with availability scheduled for 7 February 2022. Zetes describes a seven-year contract, renewable for three years, following a 2019 tender. Its release displays 27 January 2021, conflicting with the government's 2022 launch date and its own 2022 page address. This entry uses the government's date without silently correcting the supplier's text. Applicant charges are published, but the contract value, supplier payment formula and contractual data provisions are not.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/benin-caiss-securiport/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/benin-caiss-securiport/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe Paris Court of Appeal records a 20-year airport-security contract signed in stages in November 2015 and January 2016. The CCJA text has a separate 2015 versus 2016 date discrepancy. Benin challenged the contract and alleged corruption. The companies denied the allegations. An ICC award followed on 24 January 2019. The Paris court rejected annulment on 27 October 2020, finding the asserted corruption indicators insufficient. This was review of the award, not a general clearance of every contract issue. A later CCJA appeal was dismissed as late.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/brazil-passport-casa-da-moeda-2022/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/brazil-passport-casa-da-moeda-2022/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTFederal Police contract 40/2022 covers electronic travel-document production, personalisation, delivery and systems integration, with emergency-passport support. Its fourth extension provides for up to 2,515,000 passports in the 2025/26 period. A December 2025 adjustment raises the annual amount from BRL 292,802,521.23 to BRL 307,947,351.00. This is not a lifetime contract total or a passenger fee. The opened records do not confirm a further extension after September 2026, final delivery, ownership or personal-data retention terms.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/brunei-api-pnr-gateway-sita/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/brunei-api-pnr-gateway-sita/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSITA's 2022 activity report identifies Brunei as an adopter of its API PNR Gateway. The report does not identify the contracting agency. Brunei's immigration website separately lists an E-Arrival Card service. That government page does not connect the arrival-card portal to SITA's gateway. The programme status refers to the company record for 2022. It is not a confirmation of a current contract. The opened sources do not publish price, signing date, duration, procurement route or system ownership.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/cameroon-passport-augentic-incm/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/cameroon-passport-augentic-incm/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTAUGENTIC announced a ten-year passport partnership with Portugal's INCM and later reported production starting on 1 July 2021. The supplier describes private financing followed by infrastructure transfer to DGSN. CAMERCAP-PARC questioned the foreign-supplier model but recorded shorter passport delivery times. PassCam's published terms reserve passport decisions to DGSN and describe separate processing responsibilities. These positions do not establish a data breach or independent clearance. The signed contract, verified revenue schedule and eventual transfer remain unavailable in the opened records.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/cameroon-national-id-augentic-2024/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/cameroon-national-id-augentic-2024/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTAUGENTIC announced a fifteen-year agreement to renew Cameroon's national identity infrastructure, distinct from its passport partnership. Planned work includes 68 additional citizen offices, three personalisation centres and renovation of more than 200 enrolment offices. These figures describe planned scope, not verified completion. CAMERCAP-PARC later questioned the foreign-supplier model and its implications for domestic capacity. The supplier's announcement emphasised local training and knowledge transfer. The opened sources do not establish final acceptance, contractual data control, a current fee schedule or adjudication of the policy concerns.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/canada-arrivecan-cbsa/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/canada-arrivecan-cbsa/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe Auditor General estimated ArriveCAN cost CAD 59.5 million but could not determine an exact total. The 2024 audit found procurement, invoicing and testing failures, including GC Strategies' role in preparing requirements for a later competition. It recognised continued use for customs and immigration declarations after health collection ended. CBSA questioned CAD 12.2 million of the estimate. The auditor maintained that those costs arose under ArriveCAN task authorizations. CBSA accepted recommendations and described procurement changes. This is a dated audit record, not a finding about every supplier or present contract performance.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/canada-electronic-travel-authorization/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/canada-electronic-travel-authorization/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTCanada's eTA is an online entry requirement for visa-exempt foreign travellers who fly to or transit through a Canadian airport. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada runs the programme and charges CAD 7 per application, according to its official page last modified on 5 June 2026. Dual Canadian citizens need a Canadian passport instead. No contract, vendor, system cost or audit finding for the eTA was found in the sources reviewed. The entry is kept as a fee reference point next to the UK ETA and EU ETIAS.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/central-african-republic-caiss-securiport/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/central-african-republic-caiss-securiport/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSecuriport announced on 15 January 2020 that it had signed a contract with the Central African Republic for its Civil Aviation and Immigration Security Services, including biometric screening at M'Poko International Airport in Bangui. The company statement said the systems were due to go live in the first half of 2020. EcoMatin, writing in November 2025, referred to the January 2020 contract for biometric border and immigration control. The signatories, contract length, value and funding model were not published. Whether the system went live was not confirmed in sources opened.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/chile-metropolitan-biometric-migration-abis-tender-2024/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/chile-metropolitan-biometric-migration-abis-tender-2024/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTChile announced a CLP 4.9 billion regional ABIS tender for migration control and criminal investigations on 25 September 2024. The Metropolitan Regional Government was to fund it and the investigative police, PDI, were to operate it. Planned functions included fingerprint, face and voice matching against government and Interpol records. These are the ministry's intended capabilities, not verified delivery results. This entry records the dated tender announcement rather than a current award. The opened source does not identify a selected vendor, contract term, final price or retention schedule.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/colombia-civil-registry-idemia-2017/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/colombia-civil-registry-idemia-2017/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIDEMIA announced that Colombia's national civil registry had selected it to upgrade an existing identification platform in October 2017. The supplier described capacity, technical and functional changes, including a facial-recognition component. The release quotes national registrar Juan Carlos Galindo supporting continuation of the relationship. This is a company announcement distributed by Business Wire, not a contract, audit or acceptance certificate. It does not establish the total price, procurement procedure, delivery date or current operating status. Those fields remain unconfirmed rather than inferred from the older registry programme.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/colombia-passport-ci005-2026/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/colombia-passport-ci005-2026/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTContract CI005-2026 between Colombia's Foreign Ministry and national printer covers passport production, personalisation, custody and distribution, plus visa labels. Procuraduría identified it as a fourth instrument with a similar subject and questioned its missing start date. The ministry later said the contract had insurance coverage after amendments and consultation with La Previsora. The COP 185,374,493,464 figure belongs to this domestic contract, not the entire Portugal cooperation programme. Final delivery, detailed data terms and a final oversight disposition remain unconfirmed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/colombia-passport-portugal-cooperation/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/colombia-passport-portugal-cooperation/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTColombia announced cooperation with Portugal's state printer to supply passport books and transfer production capabilities to its own national printer. The government planned implementation from 1 April 2026, but that announcement alone does not prove delivery. Procuraduría questioned planning, budget authority and the selection route. The Foreign Ministry defended the agreements and later reported a refusal of interim suspension. The opened records do not establish final resolution of the legal challenge. This cooperation is distinct from the 2026 domestic production and distribution contract.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/comoros-biometric-documents-semlex-2007/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/comoros-biometric-documents-semlex-2007/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTComoros contracted Semlex for biometric passports and identity documents under a BOT arrangement in 2007. Parliamentary examination of the economic-citizenship programme later raised control concerns but stated limits to its evidence and remit. Semlex's response said it had no authority to decide passport eligibility. The record distinguishes the supplier's document-production role from citizenship decisions. It records the historical agreement, not current operating status. Later termination, replacement and judicial outcomes remain primary-source verification gaps. No programme-wide citizenship receipts are treated as the supplier's contract price.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/costa-rica-biometric-passport-veridos/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/costa-rica-biometric-passport-veridos/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTVeridos says it and GSI Sertracen were contracted by Costa Rica's migration authority to supply biometric passports and personalisation hardware and software. Its case study dates issuance to March 2022 and says government stores applicants' biometric details. The source does not publish a contract value, procurement route or duration. The status date records the reported start of issuance, not verification of the current supplier term. Claims about security performance are company claims, not an independent audit finding. Detailed retention and access terms remain not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/cote-divoire-electoral-biometrics-safran-2016/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/cote-divoire-electoral-biometrics-safran-2016/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSafran's 2016 filing reports electoral-roll work and MorphoTablet deployment for Côte d'Ivoire's October referendum and December legislative election. This records the supplier's account of services performed, not an election-observer assessment or a finding about electoral results. The filing does not identify the contracting authority in this passage or publish the procurement procedure, price and duration. These remain unconfirmed. No conclusion about the wider election process or the vendor's present contractual position is drawn from the reported deployment.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/cote-divoire-myoneci-semlex/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/cote-divoire-myoneci-semlex/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSemlex reported that ONECI launched MyONECI+ on 23 April 2025 with its technical support. The application draws on the national register of natural persons and makes identity documents available on a smartphone. The company described activation through an NFC-capable phone or an ONECI agency. This entry records the reported service launch, not independent approval of its security claims. The statement does not publish a separate application contract, award value, term or procurement route. Contractual ownership, access and retention clauses remain not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/drc-biometric-passport-semlex/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/drc-biometric-passport-semlex/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSemlex signed a five-year contract with the DRC on 11 June 2015 to produce biometric passports, as reported by Reuters. The passport cost applicants USD 185, of which Reuters reported USD 65 went to the state and USD 60 to a UAE company. Semlex produced the passports until 2025. On 1 September 2026 a Brussels court ordered Semlex and 13 others to trial on corruption, money laundering and tax fraud charges, which remain unproven. Semlex rejected the reporting in 2017, as reported by Reuters.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/drc-security-immigration-system-securiport/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/drc-security-immigration-system-securiport/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe DRC Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Transport signed a public-private partnership with Securiport for an integrated security and immigration system at airports, border posts and ports. Leaked excerpts reported by Ecofin Agency in November 2025 show a USD 30 fee per international air passenger, paid into a joint account and split 85% to Securiport and 15% to the state. Ownership of the system passes to the state at the end of the contract. The government said the fee was already in ticket prices and is partly redirected from other agencies. Signing date, duration and contract value were not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/drc-voter-registration-zetes-2005/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/drc-voter-registration-zetes-2005/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTZetes' October 2005 prospectus identifies UNDP and IAPSO as the contracting parties for its Congolese voter registration project. The company describes mobile workstations that register applicants and immediately print voter cards using administrative details, fingerprints and photographs. It reported an award in the second quarter of 2005 and partial execution during that year. This is a historical delivery record, not evidence that the same contract operates today. The cited disclosure does not establish final government acceptance or a contract-specific audit outcome. Funding shares and data-retention terms remain unconfirmed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/denmark-epassport-veridos-idpeople/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/denmark-epassport-veridos-idpeople/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTDenmark's Ministry of Justice recorded that the National Police contracted with idpeople and Veridos in late 2020 for a new passport series. Its August 2021 plan scheduled production from 1 October 2021. This is a dated production plan, not a confirmation of delivery. Veridos said the public-tender award covered seven years. It would design and manufacture the documents for Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Its partner idpeople would personalise and distribute them from Skovlunde and support Danish authorities. Neither cited publication gives the contract price or data-retention terms.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/denmark-border-control-idemia/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/denmark-border-control-idemia/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIDEMIA announced a ten-year Danish border-management award on 24 November 2021. It named Rigspolitiet as buyer and Systematic and Biometric Solutions as local partners. The scope included national border software and options for kiosks, eGates and biometric equipment. The statement described a competitive selection but did not publish the contract value or detailed ownership terms. This entry records the dated award, not verified current deployment. The release's anticipated European EES timetable is not used as evidence of the system's eventual launch date.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/equatorial-guinea-border-security-securiport/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/equatorial-guinea-border-security-securiport/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSecuriport ran border security systems in Equatorial Guinea for about ten years under a build, maintain and transfer contract. It said in January 2020 that the government chose the transfer option and took over the systems. The company statement cited an INTERPOL commendation for work around the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. On 4 November 2025 Securiport proposed a USD 100 million upgrade covering three international airports, which the vice-president said the government would review. Start date, value and funding of the original contract were not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/estonia-eid-certificates-zetes/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/estonia-eid-certificates-zetes/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTZetes announced an agreement with Estonia's Police and Border Guard Board on 16 May 2024 to supply certificates for electronic identity documents. It described a ten-year term, split into five years of issuance and five of maintenance. Its 30 June 2026 statement says certificate supply to Estonian citizens began in late 2025. The operational status records that company statement, not an independent acceptance finding. The earlier announcement covers national ID, e-residence, residence-permit and diplomatic cards. Price, exact signing date, ownership and detailed data-control terms are not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/estonia-epassport-hid/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/estonia-epassport-hid/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHID Global reported delivery of redesigned electronic-passport booklets and issuance software to Estonia's Police and Border Guard Board in May 2021. It said the authority had begun issuing the new books. The release describes personalisation, chip encoding and inventory tracking within the existing issuance system, and quotes an authority official on the new production process. This is a supplier deployment statement, not an independent audit clearance. The stated document validity is not a contract duration. Price, procurement route, signing date and personal-data retention clauses remain unconfirmed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/eu-entry-exit-system-eulisa/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/eu-entry-exit-system-eulisa/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe EES registers non-EU short-stay travellers at Schengen external borders with fingerprints and facial images in place of passport stamps. The Commission's 2016 revised proposal estimated development at EUR 480 million, against EUR 1.1 billion set aside in 2013 for EES and a traveller programme. An MEP question in July 2022 said start-up had slipped to May 2023. The system started on 12 October 2025 and became fully operational on 10 April 2026. In June 2026 a consortium led by Sword Services Greece was ranked first for a four-year development and maintenance contract estimated at EUR 93 million (company statement). The Commission's 2022 reply attributed delays to contractor milestones.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/eu-eurodac-maintenance-s3b-2017/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/eu-eurodac-maintenance-s3b-2017/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTeu-LISA's 2017 award publication records Eurodac maintenance under framework LISA/2016/RP/02 with the S3B consortium of Steria BE, Bull and Gemalto. It lists EUR 1,901,234.00 for specific contracts aggregated under that framework during the reporting year. This is not a statement of the framework ceiling or final expenditure. The same table separately lists an older Eurodac Recast implementation framework, so its amount is not combined with this maintenance entry. Signature date, term, ownership provisions, procurement competition details and present service status are not established by this annual list.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/eu-etias-travel-authorisation/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/eu-etias-travel-authorisation/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTETIAS is not operating and applications are not being accepted, according to its official website checked on 19 October 2026. The Commission's announcement of 17 July 2025 set a EUR 20 application fee and expected operations in the last quarter of 2026. The current site says a specific launch date will be announced several months before launch. It does not confirm the 2027 date previously carried in this register. Supplier, contract value and procurement terms remain not published in the opened sources.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/eu-shared-biometric-matching-system-idemia-sopra-steria/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/eu-shared-biometric-matching-system-idemia-sopra-steria/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTeu-LISA chose a consortium of IDEMIA and Sopra Steria in 2020 to build the shared biometric matching system that sits under several EU border and police databases (company statement). The framework contract runs four years with an option to extend up to six. The system first serves identification for the Entry/Exit System and is to support the Schengen Information System, the Visa Information System, Eurodac and ECRIS-TCN. The vendors said it would hold fingerprints and facial images of over 400 million third-country nationals. The release did not state a contract value, and no audit finding on sBMS was found in the sources reviewed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/eu-vis-bms-bridge3-2016/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/eu-vis-bms-bridge3-2016/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTAccenture announced the Bridge3 award for application and infrastructure services for the Visa Information System and its biometric matching system in September 2016. It described a tendered four-year term with an option for two more years. Accenture led programme management, Safran supplied biometric work and Atos supplied infrastructure. eu-LISA's annual list identifies the same consortium under LISA/2015/RP/02 and reports EUR 15,889,444.76 in aggregate orders. That annual figure is not the lifetime contract value. Current operation, option exercise and final expenditure are not established by these records.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/finland-passport-id-thales-2022/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/finland-passport-id-thales-2022/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTFinland's National Police Board signed a document supply contract with Thales DIS Finland Oy on 31 January 2022 after competitive bidding. The award covers passports, identity cards and residence documents, including design, production, personalisation, checking and delivery. The announced production term was five years from 13 March 2023. The source confirms the award, not completion of that future commissioning programme. Its notice does not publish a contract price, funding allocation, data-retention schedule or asset-transfer provisions. Those terms remain unconfirmed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/france-ccaf-idemia-sopra-steria/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/france-ccaf-idemia-sopra-steria/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSopra Steria announced selection of its consortium with IDEMIA to design, build, deploy, maintain and update France's central border-control system, CCAF. The announcement planned deployment during 2021 and connected the programme to a then-expected European Entry/Exit System launch in 2022. Those were forecasts, not evidence that either timetable was met. This entry concerns France's national system, not the separate eu-LISA central contracts. The opened release gives no price, signed date, service term, detailed data provisions or independent acceptance finding. Later delivery remains unconfirmed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/france-digital-identity-idemia/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/france-digital-identity-idemia/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIDEMIA announced its selection for France's national digital identity programme in September 2021. Its release describes smartphone authentication using the chip in the national identity card, with the citizen's consent. It presents ANSSI certification as a future step, so this entry does not count a completed certification or audit clearance. The programme director's quoted objective was to prevent transactions being centralised or traced. That statement is not the full contract. Award price, procurement route, service duration, contractual data controls and subsequent delivery remain unconfirmed here.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/georgia-kutaisi-border-egates-sita/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/georgia-kutaisi-border-egates-sita/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTKutaisi Airport reported seven SITA arrival eGates operating in test mode on 19 September 2025. It scheduled full launch for October and put project investment at GEL1.6 million. The stated scope was adult Georgian citizens entering through passport and biometric checks. That announcement does not establish a completed October launch. SITA's case study describes gates installed by United Airports of Georgia, with exceptions referred to border officers. The supplier reports processing in 18 to 20 seconds. These are operator and supplier descriptions, not an independent audit of performance.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/ghana-card-nia-identity-management-systems/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/ghana-card-nia-identity-management-systems/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTGhana Card is the national biometric ID card, run by the National Identification Authority under a public private partnership with Identity Management Systems. NIA said in 2018 that the one-year issuance phase cost USD 293 million, with the state paying USD 124 million from the consolidated fund and IMS USD 169 million, and that about USD 1.2 billion was projected over 15 years. The card carries an e-passport profile for ECOWAS travel. In March 2019 NIA rejected a Minority call for a forensic audit. NIA's site says L.I. 2523, requiring verification instead of photocopying, takes effect on 2 November 2026.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/guinea-bissau-national-id-semlex/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/guinea-bissau-national-id-semlex/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSemlex announced renewal of its identity-card collaboration with the Ministry of Justice in November 2021, describing a relationship dating to 2006. It said it financed the Bissau production centre and regional equipment. Its March 2026 statement reports the opening of a São Domingos enrolment centre on 26 February 2026. These are company accounts of renewal and operation, not an opened contract or independent acceptance report. The renewal term, revenue mechanism and price are not published. No conclusion about data ownership follows from the equipment financing.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/hong-kong-contactless-echannel/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/hong-kong-contactless-echannel/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHong Kong's Immigration Department announced contactless e-Channel clearance for residents, with an initial launch scheduled for 1 December 2021 at the airport, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and Shenzhen Bay. Enrolment enabled QR-code entry and facial verification, conventional counters and fingerprint-based clearance remained available. In July 2023, the department announced eligibility expansion to foreign domestic helpers, non-local students and imported workers from 21 July. These government releases establish a programme and subsequent extension, not a supplier award. Neither identifies the vendor, contract price, procurement route or data-retention schedule.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/india-aadhaar-biometric-core-2010/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/india-aadhaar-biometric-core-2010/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIndia's Planning Commission announced three consortium awards for Aadhaar's core biometric identification system in July 2010. The planned first phase covered deduplication of 200 million residents, not a reported delivery total. Later CAG oversight found duplicate-number problems and recorded UIDAI's accuracy and remedial explanations. Those findings concern the programme over subsequent years and cannot be assigned to one of the original suppliers from this evidence. This entry records the initial awards without treating their two-year first phase as a contract still operating today. Price and detailed contractual data rights remain unconfirmed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/india-bangalore-biometric-path-vision-box/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/india-bangalore-biometric-path-vision-box/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTPortugal's government recorded the signing of a contract between Bangalore International Airport and Vision-Box in Lisbon on 5 September 2018. The scope was installation of biometric passenger-management technology, with facial identification intended to replace repeated presentation of boarding passes and identity documents along the passenger route. The government said companies from different countries had competed for the contract. This source establishes the award, not completed deployment. It does not publish the price, contract duration, data-retention schedule or ownership provisions. This airport-specific supplier record is separate from India's national Digi Yatra programme.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/india-digi-yatra-foundation/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/india-digi-yatra-foundation/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTDigi Yatra lets domestic air passengers in India pass airport checkpoints using facial recognition linked to Aadhaar-verified credentials and a boarding pass. It is run by Digi Yatra Foundation, a not-for-profit joint venture of Airports Authority of India and private airport operators, with AAI holding 26 percent. AAI airports launched it from 1 December 2022 at Varanasi, with more airports on 7 June 2024, and about 6 million passengers had used it at AAI airports by mid-2024. The ministry told the Lok Sabha on 8 February 2024 that data stays on the passenger's phone and airports purge it 24 hours after departure.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/india-epassport-inlays-iris/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/india-epassport-inlays-iris/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIndia Security Press records a contract for 15 million electronic contactless inlays with operating system, described as in two-up format, for passport manufacture. This is not a count of issued passports. The official record dates the award and contract to 6 August 2022. IRIS's 2021 annual report describes a September 2020 award for the same quantity and product. The opened sources do not reconcile those dates. The scheduled completion date is not proof of actual delivery. No separate second award is inferred.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/indonesia-immigration-control-system-securiport/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/indonesia-immigration-control-system-securiport/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTMIGA describes a cooperation agreement signed on 1 March 2022 for a 20-year border-system partnership in Indonesia. It covers seven airports, five training centres and two data centres. Government immigration staff operate the border controls. Securiport applied for USD 100 million in political-risk cover for a shareholder loan, for up to 15 years. Both MIGA pages label the guarantee Proposed and the board date estimated. They do not establish issuance. MIGA describes expected development benefits, not measured results. The revenue mechanism remains not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/indonesia-jakarta-bali-autogates-2024/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/indonesia-jakarta-bali-autogates-2024/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIndonesia's Directorate General of Immigration reported 78 automated gates at Soekarno-Hatta Airport and 30 at Ngurah Rai Airport in the first quarter of 2024. Its April release describes passport scanning followed by facial verification connected to border-control management. Eligible foreign visitors needed an electronic passport and an Indonesian electronic visa or electronic visa on arrival. The authority's processing-time estimate was 15 to 25 seconds, not an independent acceptance finding. This dated programme record does not identify the supplier, contract price, award method or retention terms. It is not attributed to Securiport's separate immigration-control project.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/iraq-id-document-factory-veridos/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/iraq-id-document-factory-veridos/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTVeridos says Iraq's Ministry of Interior signed an agreement to build and operate a security-document production facility near Baghdad International Airport. The case study describes passport production equipment, future card-production capacity and continuing vendor services and maintenance. It has no visible publication date. The entry's status records the reported agreement as checked on 19 October 2026, not confirmation of current completion. Price, signing date, contract term, procurement route and detailed asset-ownership clauses remain not published. Statements about local production do not establish the legal ownership terms.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/ireland-passport-processing-hid/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/ireland-passport-processing-hid/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIreland's award notice names HID Global Ireland Teoranta as the contractor for the Passport Issuance and Processing System, with three tenders received. The system covers back-office applications and passport-holder records, with implementation, maintenance, support and training. HID's January 2022 statement identifies AG2, Inpute Technologies and WorldReach Software as partners. The notice records one contractor rather than a consortium award. Its total excludes VAT. The opened records do not establish final acceptance, system ownership, retention periods or the exercise of extension options. The award is separate from later passport-book production procurements.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/jamaica-digital-travel-declaration-sita/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/jamaica-digital-travel-declaration-sita/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTJamaica adopted SITA's Digital Travel Declaration in 2021, according to the company's activity report. PICA publishes arrival-document requirements including the C5 immigration and customs form. That government page does not identify SITA or establish that the current C5 service is the same platform. This entry records the company's historical deployment statement. The contracting agency and signing date are not confirmed. Price, term, procurement, ownership and data-retention clauses are not published in the opened sources.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/japan-face-recognition-gates-panasonic/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/japan-face-recognition-gates-panasonic/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTJapan's Immigration Services Agency first chose Panasonic facial recognition gates in October 2017, and three units began operating at Haneda on 18 October 2017 (company statement). By 2018, 137 units were in use at five major airports. An additional order announced on 30 August 2019 brought the total to 203 units at seven airports, 123 of them for foreign nationals on departure. The gates match the traveller's face against the passport chip photo without prior enrolment. Panasonic cited the ministry as saying about 80 percent of Japanese travellers use the gates. No contract value or audit finding was found.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/japan-joint-immigration-customs-kiosks-nec/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/japan-joint-immigration-customs-kiosks-nec/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTNEC announced an award for joint immigration and customs kiosks at Haneda Terminal 2 on 25 January 2024, with a pilot planned from 31 January. The equipment combines passport and Visit Japan Web QR-code information with biometric capture and shares information with the two agencies. The Finance Ministry's 14 May 2025 briefing records full operation from April at Haneda, Kansai and Narita Terminal 3. That establishes programme rollout, but does not assign every later terminal installation to the original Haneda award. The reviewed records do not disclose its price or duration.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/japan-narita-haneda-face-express-nec/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/japan-narita-haneda-face-express-nec/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTNEC announced facial-recognition passenger processing for Narita and Haneda airports on 25 March 2021. Face Express links a passenger's face with passport and boarding-pass information, allowing checks at subsequent airport touchpoints without repeatedly presenting those documents. Japan Airlines reported that trials had run from April and announced full implementation from 19 July 2021 at Narita Terminal 2 and Haneda Terminal 3. Its 16 July release is evidence of the trial and a future launch date, not confirmation that launch had occurred. The contract price, term and procurement method are unpublished in these releases.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/kenya-ecitizen-eta-webmasters-pesaflow/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/kenya-ecitizen-eta-webmasters-pesaflow/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTeCitizen is the Kenyan government payment portal. Kenya's official ETA site carries eCitizen branding and lists fees from USD 30. The Star reported on 6 August 2025 that an Auditor General special audit found the government paid KES 492 million and USD 414,299.60 to a company outside the agreement between the ICT Authority and the Webmasters Kenya consortium. The audit found KES 6.2 billion in an unapproved collection account, KES 127.9 million moved from the state paybill to private entities on 25 January 2024, and convenience fees charged at a flat KES 50 in breach of the gazette notice. MPs were reviewing the report.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/kenya-epassport-veridos/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/kenya-epassport-veridos/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTVeridos announced a Kenyan government award for new electronic passport security features on 20 May 2025. The company describes colour portraits on polycarbonate and document-design changes. Its statement quotes the Director General of Immigration Services describing the planned passport. This is evidence of an announced award, not independent acceptance of delivered books or confirmation of shorter processing times. The release does not state the signing date, contract value, term, procurement route, unit price, ownership or personal-data clauses. Those details remain unconfirmed rather than inferred from the announcement.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/kenya-kiems-idemia-2017/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/kenya-kiems-idemia-2017/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe court record describes IDEMIA's supply of KIEMS kits used in Kenya's 2017 elections. Parliament later questioned company registration and recommended investigation, conditional debarment and recovery of payments. IDEMIA challenged those recommendations. The High Court granted limited relief against retrospective application of legislation and Parliament's recovery direction, but rejected the company's procedural unfairness argument. This entry records that dispute, not a finding that every aspect of the procurement was lawful. The opened judgment does not establish a later procurement-regulator disposition or current service status.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/kenya-maisha-namba-digital-id/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/kenya-maisha-namba-digital-id/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTKenya's Interior Ministry began piloting Maisha Namba, a lifelong unique personal identifier, on 1 November 2023. Katiba Institute challenged the roll-out, arguing that no data protection impact assessment had been done and that the system built on data collected during the Huduma Namba exercise. On 5 December 2023 Justice John Chigiti granted leave that operated as a stay. Kenyans.co.ke reported on 23 February 2024 that the court lifted the stay and moved the case to the Constitutional Division. The outcome of that case, the vendor and the system cost were not confirmed in the sources reviewed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/kenya-niims-huduma-enrolment-kits/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/kenya-niims-huduma-enrolment-kits/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTGovernment testimony in the NIIMS litigation identifies OT Morpho, now IDEMIA, as supplier of 31,000 registration kits procured in late 2018. The court proceedings concern the state's identity programme and safeguards, not a finding that the kit supplier controlled the database. The 2020 judgment allowed implementation subject to a lawful framework but rejected DNA and GPS collection. A later rollout decision was quashed for lack of a prior impact assessment. In March 2022 the appeal court recorded subsequent compliance and refused interim relief. Current contract performance remains unconfirmed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/kosovo-identity-augentic-in-groupe-2023/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/kosovo-identity-augentic-in-groupe-2023/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTAUGENTIC announced a contract with Kosovo's Ministry of Internal Affairs in partnership with IN Groupe. The stated scope combines identity documents, an identity-management system and renewed IT infrastructure. AUGENTIC describes providing its software platform and IN Groupe producing the documents. The announcement is evidence of a supplier-reported award, not independent proof of completed deployment. It does not disclose the price, term, tender route, ownership allocation or detailed personal-data provisions. This entry does not attribute findings about earlier suppliers or separate procurements to this contract.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/latvia-passport-veridos/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/latvia-passport-veridos/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTVeridos describes collaboration with Latvia's government to design and deliver a passport with a polycarbonate data page and embedded security features. The opened case study does not give a publication or contract date. This entry records the company account as checked on 19 October 2026, not a dated government acceptance. The contracting agency, price, duration and procurement procedure remain not published. The vendor's descriptions of forgery resistance are not independent findings. No passenger-data system or government data-retention arrangement is inferred from document design.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/libya-diplomatic-passport-hid-2021/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/libya-diplomatic-passport-hid-2021/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHID reported deploying diplomatic and special electronic passports for Libya's foreign ministry in March 2021. The described system covers application, issuance and document lifecycle management, with polycarbonate data pages, personalisation equipment and public-key infrastructure. It is not an award for all ordinary Libyan passports. The company reported four months of delivery work, which is not the contract duration. A named ministry representative described integration with existing processes. The cited release supplies neither procurement terms nor an independent assessment, and the historical deployment statement does not establish today's contract status.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/luxembourg-airport-egates-veridos/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/luxembourg-airport-egates-veridos/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTVeridos reports installing ten automated border-control gates at Luxembourg Airport, opened on 26 July 2018. The company says a site acceptance test was passed less than a year after contract signing. It names police, ministers and the airport operator at the opening. That statement is evidence of the reported deployment, not an independently opened acceptance certificate. The contracting legal entity, price, term and procurement route remain not confirmed. This entry does not infer that the same equipment or maintenance contract remains current.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/madagascar-passport-semlex/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/madagascar-passport-semlex/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSemlex reported passport production and an airport border-management installation in Madagascar in April 2014. In September 2023, Cabinet approved extending the passport cooperation agreement for twelve months to September 2024 on existing terms. It cited continuity of production and time needed for international-tender preparations. This record does not infer a current contract from that extension or treat renewal as an independent performance finding. Later extensions, replacement awards, revenue allocation, full contract duration and detailed ownership or data-retention terms remain unconfirmed in the opened primary records.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/malawi-epassport-techno-brain/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/malawi-epassport-techno-brain/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTMalawi signed a USD 60.8 million contract with Techno Brain in March 2019 to upgrade passport issuance and introduce an e-passport. In December 2021 the Attorney General cancelled it under the public procurement law, citing irregularities. The government brought Techno Brain back on a temporary basis in 2023. After a hack halted passport printing in early 2024, the government hired local firm E-Tech Systems, as reported by The Nation. Techno Brain's Nandan Gopalakrishna said the company had responded quickly to an urgent request for help in January 2024.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/malaysia-niise-iris-original-contract/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/malaysia-niise-iris-original-contract/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIRIS disclosed a January 2021 award for Malaysia's immigration-system replacement, later adjusted to MYR 1.127 billion. NEC announced an identification and e-gate subcontract in October 2022. Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said in March 2023 that progress was below the required level, and stated that cancellation had not yet been decided. IRIS later disclosed an August 2023 termination and its subsidiary's arbitration challenge. The 2025 accounts scheduled a December hearing but do not establish its outcome. This entry concerns the original IRIS contract, not any successor award.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/maldives-imuga-immigration-services/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/maldives-imuga-immigration-services/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTMaldives Immigration introduced its traveller health declaration through IMUGA on 15 July 2020. Its July 2023 notice confirms that travellers can submit the declaration themselves without a charge. The portal's April 2025 privacy policy describes personal, passport, biometric and immigration information used for service delivery and enforcement. It distinguishes temporary facial-recognition processing from the authority's permanent records. The public records opened here do not name a technology supplier or establish a contract price, procurement route, operating term or system-ownership arrangement. Historical health-declaration rules are not presented as current travel advice.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/mali-biometric-passport-idemia/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/mali-biometric-passport-idemia/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIDEMIA's case study describes a ten-year passport concession signed in October 2015, using a Build-Operate-Transfer model. It names Mali Solutions Numériques and Afritek in local delivery and describes applicant-payment vouchers. The statement is a historical company account, not evidence of renewal after the stated term or a completed transfer. It does not publish price, revenue split or the full contract. Its service descriptions give both seven days and two weeks for standard delivery. Those inconsistent figures are not treated as a verified service outcome.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/mali-caiss-concession-securiport/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/mali-caiss-concession-securiport/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTMali approved a ten-year Securiport concession by decree on 27 September 2016, published in the official journal on 2 December 2016. The agreement covers construction, maintenance and transfer of civil aviation and immigration security systems. The decree refers to an earlier airport security fee framework but does not state the charge or revenue split. This entry records the dated approval, not a finding about current operation, renewal or contract performance. Later criminal-case allegations are withheld pending named or official evidence.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/mexico-electoral-biometrics-safran-2016/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/mexico-electoral-biometrics-safran-2016/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSafran's 2016 reference document reports a five-year INE contract for multibiometric identification and related electoral-register services. The filing is evidence of the company's announced award, not independently verified delivery or a finding about the register's accuracy. The entry does not infer an exact signing date or start date from the reporting year. Contract price, payment arrangements, ownership and retention provisions are not disclosed in the cited passage. No statement about present operation is made from this historical award record.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/mexico-voter-id-veridos/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/mexico-voter-id-veridos/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTVeridos describes producing Mexican voter identification cards from 2013 and renewing its INE contract in 2019. Its case study reports production through August 2021 and describes card production, personalisation and verification. The cards serve an identity function beyond voting, according to the company. This entry records that historical production programme, not a current award confirmation. The source does not publish the contract price, procurement method or renewed term. Claims about prevention of counterfeiting are not treated as an official finding or independent security test.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/mozambique-identity-border-muehlbauer-2018/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/mozambique-identity-border-muehlbauer-2018/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTMühlbauer's account of its Mozambique project describes an eight-year agreement signed in early 2018 with the interior authorities. The PPP covers identity and travel documents, visas and migration-movement control. The company reported systems deployed to provincial offices, airports, border crossings and diplomatic missions. It described government document issuance and factory acceptance testing, but did not publish the acceptance certificate. These delivery statements are not independent audit findings. The source does not disclose the concession price, applicant fees, revenue split or asset-transfer conditions, which remain unconfirmed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/nepal-epassport-idemia-2021/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/nepal-epassport-idemia-2021/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIDEMIA's July 2022 case study describes an agreement to deliver two million electronic passports and update Nepal's issuance infrastructure. It states that the Department of Passports began issuing the documents in 2021 after international bidding. The work included enrolment, document personalisation and blank booklets, with photographs and fingerprints held on the passport chip. Two million is the agreement's supply quantity, not a verified delivery total. This entry concerns passports, distinct from the national identity-card programme. Price, signature date, duration and contractual data rights are not disclosed in this source.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/nepal-national-eid-idemia-2016/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/nepal-national-eid-idemia-2016/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIDEMIA describes Nepal's national electronic identity programme as starting in September 2016 and becoming operational in November 2018. Its case study reports 117,000 initial cards and expansion toward twenty million national identities. That larger figure is a programme target, not completed issuance. The work covers enrolment, biometric deduplication and identity cards for public-service access. All rollout phases are kept in this entry, separate from the passport contract with another department. The company account does not publish price, tender method, term or detailed data-control provisions.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/netherlands-passport-id-idemia/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/netherlands-passport-id-idemia/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTRvIG identifies IDEMIA (ID&D) as its document supplier and records contract expiry in 2029. The new passport model had a production defect affecting tactile features. Official records describe identifying affected holders and checking documents. In May 2025 the minister reported a correction to the production process and removal of faulty stock. Counts refer to different document groups and returned documents, not one reconciled total. The opened records do not provide the signed procurement instrument, contract value or a final independent assessment of all corrective measures.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/netherlands-schiphol-biometric-flow-vision-box/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/netherlands-schiphol-biometric-flow-vision-box/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSchiphol announced a facial-recognition boarding trial for Cathay Pacific passengers on 18 February 2019. The partnership involved the government, Schiphol, Cathay Pacific, KLM and technology supplier Vision-Box. Passport control remained a separate check at that stage, with integration planned for a later phase. The court record identifies a framework announced in February 2017. In June 2021 the court rejected IDEMIA's interim patent claims after Vision-Box disputed infringement and urgency. The ruling did not settle the merits of infringement. The contract price and term remain unpublished in these sources.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/niger-haske-dst-iom-border-systems-2020/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/niger-haske-dst-iom-border-systems-2020/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIOM reported completion of the three-year Haske DST project at the inauguration of Niger's border-police headquarters in September 2020. The US-funded programme included passport and visa facilities and a training room for MIDAS and PISCES border-information systems. The stated amount covers the broader headquarters project, not procurement of either software system. The completion statement comes from the implementing organization and is not an independent audit. No inference is made about nationwide system coverage, licensing ownership, data-sharing rights or subsequent operation from this facility announcement.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/nigeria-epassport-iris-smart-technologies/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/nigeria-epassport-iris-smart-technologies/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIris Smart Technologies produces Nigeria's e-passport booklets under a renewal agreement with the Federal Ministry of Interior dated April 2015. When the government considered moving production to the state mint, a House of Representatives committee advised in June 2023 that the contract run its course, citing over N22 billion in existing systems and a 36 to 48 month gap before a new system. A 2024 hearing criticised revenue shares paid to unnamed consultancy firms. That report does not identify Iris or establish a finding against it. Contract value and fee terms were not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/nigeria-e-visa-landing-exit-card/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/nigeria-e-visa-landing-exit-card/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTNigeria's Ministry of Interior and Immigration Service launched an online e-Visa system and an automated landing and exit card, both taking effect on 1 May 2025, according to a service statement reported by the News Agency of Nigeria and BusinessDay. Applicants can apply online for 13 short-visit visa types, with approvals expected within 48 hours and QR-coded visas sent by email. Visa on arrival ended on 1 May 2025. The 2025 Visa Policy sets a USD 15 daily overstay fine from 1 September 2025. No vendor, contract value or audit was found.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/nigeria-border-midas-iom-japan-2016/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/nigeria-border-midas-iom-japan-2016/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIOM announced a USD 910,000 Japanese allocation for Nigeria's land-border management in April 2016. The one-year project planned MIDAS installation at four additional crossings, taking coverage to nine. Its stated functions included watchlist checks and registration of foreign nationals. This entry records the funded project at announcement, not verified completion or Nigeria's current nationwide coverage. IOM is the programme implementer, not an identified private concessionaire. The source does not disclose an applicant fee, commercial revenue split or individual equipment-supplier contract, and the programme budget should not be read as one.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/nigeria-nimc-biometric-upgrade-idemia/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/nigeria-nimc-biometric-upgrade-idemia/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIDEMIA announced an agreement with Nigeria's National Identity Management Commission to expand its biometric identification system to 250 million records. The company dated the agreement to 28 February 2024 and described a planned capacity of one million verification searches per day. It said the existing system was approaching its 100 million-record capacity and that the upgrade had World Bank ID4D support. This entry records an award announcement, not verified completion. The statement does not disclose the contract price, funding instrument, procurement method, duration or database ownership clauses.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/norway-passport-id-gemalto-thales-2016/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/norway-passport-id-gemalto-thales-2016/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTNorway selected Gemalto Oy in 2016 for passport and identity-document supply. The justice minister told Parliament in June 2022 that the resulting Thales contract ran to 2026. In March, her ministry had summoned Thales after the company reported production errors and shortages of materials. An August parliamentary exchange records a further production error and contractual follow-up. The minister argued that a short-term supplier replacement was not possible and that one supplier was needed for identical documents. These records document problems and official responses, not a final audit or adjudicated damages award.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/oman-unified-registry-gemalto-2015/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/oman-unified-registry-gemalto-2015/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTGemalto reported deployment of its Coesys document-management system by the Royal Oman Police in March 2015. The intended unified registry initially covered national identity cards and electronic passports, both supplied by the company. The release quotes Major General Sulaiman Al-Harthy describing the project as an extension of the relationship. This supplier account supports an awarded and deploying system, not independently certified completion. It does not disclose contract value, duration, selection method or detailed data-control provisions. References to possible future border gates are not treated as an awarded part of this project.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/pakistan-airport-biometrics-securiport-proposal/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/pakistan-airport-biometrics-securiport-proposal/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSecuriport has offered Pakistan a USD 2.4 billion, 25-year package of e-gates, identity checks, threat detection and API and PNR systems across its airports, as reported by Biometric Update on 30 April 2026. The company would cover upfront costs and recover them through a passenger security surcharge set by the government. Pakistan would keep ownership of the data. The US embassy wrote in support of the offer. A separate Pakistan Airports Authority e-gate project has drawn Senate questions on procurement rules. No decision had been reported.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/panama-national-id-muehlbauer/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/panama-national-id-muehlbauer/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTMühlbauer's June 2024 statement identifies its participation in Panama's national identity card project with the Electoral Tribunal and National Registry Directorate. It describes polycarbonate cards, laser-personalised portraits and biometric validation during issuance. The announcement concerns a printing-industry award, which is not treated here as an official audit clearance or judicial finding. The programme is recorded at the statement date, not as a verified current contract. The signing date, contract value, term, procurement route and detailed data-control provisions are not published in that source.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/paraguay-midas-iom-programme-2015/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/paraguay-midas-iom-programme-2015/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTParaguay's MIDAS implementation began at two airports and expanded through five linked projects. The July 2022 external evaluation commissioned by IOM and its Development Fund recorded both operational improvements and continuing technical and financial limitations. This entry groups the linked implementation rather than counting successive phases as unrelated awards. Budget figures identify the two initial projects only. They do not establish total spending, commercial supplier compensation or current system performance. The evaluation remained a programme assessment, not a court finding against a private vendor.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/peru-electronic-passport-supplies-contract-003-2023/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/peru-electronic-passport-supplies-contract-003-2023/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTMigraciones bought 546,015 electronic passport booklets and the same number of security laminates through direct procurement 03-2023. Contraloría questioned acceptance and payment for the first delivery with identified manufacturing defects and said delay penalties had not been applied. Migraciones reported replacement materials received on 16 June 2023, denied harm and disputed the penalty interpretation. This records the supply dispute in June 2023, not a final audit clearance. The supplier identity, full price, final delivery and subsequent audit resolution are not established by these opened sources.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/peru-jorge-chavez-immigration-hosting-lap/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/peru-jorge-chavez-immigration-hosting-lap/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTMigraciones approved non-competitive procedure 010-2025 for Lima Airport Partners to host immigration-control technology at the new Jorge Chavez terminal. The resolution cites the airport operator's exclusive rights as the sole-provider justification. It authorises the next contracting steps, not proof of a signed contract or service acceptance. The approved consideration is PEN 408,419.71, distinct from the PEN 408,421.00 budget provision for 2026 to 2028. The document does not establish a passenger charge, transfer of data control, retention period or exact service term.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/philippines-machine-readable-passport-nec/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/philippines-machine-readable-passport-nec/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTNEC's corporate chronology identifies a machine-readable passport project launched with the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs in 2007. That company account identifies project participation but does not publish the contracting entity or its precise work package. The Philippine Embassy in Canberra reported in October 2008 that domestic issuance had begun in July 2007 and overseas missions were transitioning to the system. It said passport production occurred in Manila. This entry covers that historical machine-readable programme, not later chip-passport procurement. The cited sources do not disclose a contract price, duration or ownership provisions.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/philippines-caiss-securiport-proposal/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/philippines-caiss-securiport-proposal/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSecuriport has proposed a PHP 10.74 billion public-private partnership to the Philippine Bureau of Immigration covering 11 international airports, Zamboanga seaport and six border crossing stations. The 20-year plan would be paid for by travellers under a user-pays model, with a technology refresh every four years at no added government cost, as reported. It would combine API and PNR data with face, fingerprint and iris matching and e-gates. As of October 2026 it remained under interagency review and no contract had been signed. Securiport CTO Nate Carpenter said the project is not a duplication of existing systems.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/philippines-mobile-id-hid-2024/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/philippines-mobile-id-hid-2024/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHID announced integration of its goID software development kit into the existing eGovPH application with Philippine integrator FMC Research Solutions in September 2024. DICT's secretary described access to digital national identity documents through the app. The covered work is mobile credential software, distinct from manufacturing physical identity cards or passports. HID described storage and verification functions and authentication options. The announcement does not publish the purchase price, competitive procedure or service term. Its descriptions of security and standards compliance are not treated as independent oversight findings.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/portugal-airport-biometrics-vision-box/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/portugal-airport-biometrics-vision-box/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTVision-Box announced biometric passenger processing with ANA at Lisbon and Porto in January 2024, with Faro, Funchal and Ponta Delgada planned for the second half of that year. The first phase covered selected TAP flights within Schengen. The company attributed funding to NextGenerationEU and Portugal's recovery plan. This is an airport security-access and boarding programme, not proof that border immigration controls were replaced. The entry records the announced first phase. Completion at all five airports, grant amounts, the procurement route and contract term remain unconfirmed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/qatar-hamad-fast-pass-sita/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/qatar-hamad-fast-pass-sita/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSITA reported that Hamad International Airport and Qatar Airways had launched Fast Pass across more than 700 passenger-processing touchpoints on 6 July 2026. Passengers could enrol through the airline application or a kiosk, then use facial verification for check-in, baggage drop, security and boarding. Participation was optional, with conventional processing available. SITA described expansion to transfer passengers and other airlines as future work, not completed deployment. This is a company-reported airport journey, separate from Qatar's World Cup advance-passenger and Hayya programmes. The release does not disclose contract price, duration or retention terms.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/qatar-world-cup-app-hayya-sita/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/qatar-world-cup-app-hayya-sita/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSITA reports supplying advance passenger processing integrated with the Hayya fan card for Qatar's 2022 World Cup. Qatar's Ministry of Interior now describes Hayya's visitor-visa services. The ministry page does not name SITA or establish the term of its contract. This entry records the 2022 deployment, not a confirmed completion or a present supplier relationship. The contracting agency, signing date, price, duration, procurement route, ownership and detailed data terms are not published in the opened sources.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/san-marino-national-id-hid-2024/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/san-marino-national-id-hid-2024/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHID announced its role in San Marino's contactless national ID programme in November 2024, working with systems integrator N.I.D.O. Srl Group. The company described a polycarbonate card using its SOMA operating system and laser personalisation, with identity and public-service functions. A named departmental director confirmed the partnership in the release. This entry records the supplier announcement, not an independently tested security outcome or a published procurement award. Price, selection procedure, contract duration and contractual data rights are absent from the cited source.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/saudi-arabia-airport-e-gates-sdaia/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/saudi-arabia-airport-e-gates-sdaia/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTArab News reported on 11 March 2025, citing the Saudi Press Agency, that SDAIA had installed 152 automated e-gates with the General Directorate of Passports and Matarat Holding at airports in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Madinah. SDAIA said the gates link to visa, biometric and airline systems. Gulf News reported on 1 March 2025 that 70 e-gates with facial recognition opened at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, each able to handle 2,500 passengers a day, after earlier roll-outs at Riyadh and Neom Bay. No contract, vendor, cost or audit was found in the sources reviewed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/senegal-biometric-visa-snedai/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/senegal-biometric-visa-snedai/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSenegal gave SNEDAI a concession to produce biometric entry visas, with the company saying in 2013 that the state would spend nothing. The government later said the partnership contract was signed on 25 March 2014 after ARMP approval, and that visa revenue was earmarked to repay SNEDAI for police vehicles and buildings it prefinanced. The visa cost EUR 50. The President abolished it from 1 May 2015. In May 2016 the government said it paid SNEDAI 13 billion FCFA on termination and took over the IT equipment. Sources give different signing dates.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/senegal-national-id-iris-2021/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/senegal-national-id-iris-2021/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIRIS's 2021 annual report describes an extension to supply three million biometric national identity and voter cards for Senegal. Its 2022 report gives the extension's value as EUR 15.99 million. These are company statements about the award, not government acceptance records or independent performance findings. The opened reports do not establish the precise signing day, service term, funding allocation or contractual data provisions. This entry concerns the card extension, not Senegal's separate passport or passenger-security arrangements. Final delivery remains unconfirmed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/senegal-integrated-immigration-control-securiport/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/senegal-integrated-immigration-control-securiport/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSenegal's 2018 decree lists a USD 12 security fee for passengers arriving and departing, with the airport manager collecting for MEFP for SECURIPORT. Earlier reporting dates the contract to January 2011. In August 2015, Connectionivoirienne relayed Libération's account of an IGF claim for 143.6 billion FCFA. The original audit and a named response were not verified, so the reported amount is not presented as an established debt. October 2025 reporting described a January 2026 expiry. A renewal decision or replacement award remains unconfirmed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/sierra-leone-airport-security-securiport/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/sierra-leone-airport-security-securiport/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSierra Leone suspended the USD 25 airport security fee from 6 July 2026 pending a contract review and special audit. Reports differ on whether airport operations stopped. Earlier ASSL annual reports contain contract and revenue-control findings, with management responses, but they are not the requested 2026 special audit. The Immigration Department reported an equipment inspection on 20 June 2026, not an independent clearance of those findings. No published result of the July 2026 special audit was located in the sources checked on 19 October 2026.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/sierra-leone-epassport-netpage-hid/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/sierra-leone-epassport-netpage-hid/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSierra Leone's May 2020 performance audit described a passport arrangement in which De La Rue printed documents and Netpage collected sales proceeds and paid the supplier. The 2023 annual audit named HID CID Limited and recorded USD744,993 in unpaid royalties. Reporting on a 2024 hearing about the separate 2022 amount attributed a challenge to the royalty clause's parliamentary approval to the PAC chair. Netpage's CEO later said a temporary waiver had been approved and revised royalties were being paid from October 2025. That company account does not establish settlement of the earlier audit amount.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/singapore-automated-border-control-idemia/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/singapore-automated-border-control-idemia/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIDEMIA announced selection for Singapore's Automated Border Control System on 9 May 2023, naming ICA and HTX as the awarding authorities. The announced scope covers air, land and sea checkpoints. The company says this follows earlier automated-gate work beginning at Changi Airport in 2017. This is a supplier-award record, separate from the broader New Clearance Concept programme. The opened announcement does not publish price, duration, payment mechanism, asset ownership or data-retention rules. It does not establish completion of all planned deployments.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/singapore-motorcyclist-bikes-nec/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/singapore-motorcyclist-bikes-nec/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTNEC stated in March 2007 that it had received the BIKES award in 2006. ICA's annual report records launches at Tuas in October 2006 and Woodlands in February 2007. The initial system authenticated single motorcyclists using a passport reader followed by a thumbprint check. ICA described eligibility for Singaporeans, Malaysian permanent residents of Singapore and long-term pass holders. The service was free for those users. This record concerns the initial motorcycle-clearance system, not later passenger-car or passport-free programmes. Contract price, duration and supplier payment arrangements remain unpublished in these sources.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/singapore-biopass-nec-consortium/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/singapore-biopass-nec-consortium/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTNEC Solutions Asia Pacific announced a SGD9.7 million award for Singapore's biometric passport system on 21 March 2005. It identified itself as prime contractor and named NCS, SNP Security Printing and Gemplus Technologies Asia as consortium members. The company expected commissioning in October 2005, that was a forecast, not a delivery confirmation. Singapore's foreign ministry confirmed that all new passports issued from 15 August 2006 would be BioPass documents. The cited publications do not disclose the full contract term, ownership provisions or data-retention schedule. This entry records the original system award.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/singapore-new-clearance-concept-ica/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/singapore-new-clearance-concept-ica/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTICA announced its New Clearance Concept in 2019 to move border checks from staffed counters to automated lanes for people, vehicles and cargo. From May 2024 all foreign visitors could use automated lanes at Changi on arrival without prior enrolment. Singapore residents, and all travellers on departure, clear immigration with face and iris biometrics and no passport, using advance airline manifests, and land checkpoints use QR codes. ICA said full roll-out at Changi was complete on 30 September 2024 and average clearance time fell from 25 to 10 seconds. No contract, vendor or cost was published in these releases.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/sint-maarten-border-control-vision-box/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/sint-maarten-border-control-vision-box/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTVision-Box describes a partnership with Princess Juliana airport and immigration authorities dating to 2015, refreshed after hurricane damage and pandemic disruption. Sint Maarten's government announced a relaunch in September 2024, with the registration website planned for 8 October and the arrival hall for 15 October. It described biometric clearance and API/PNR as later phases. The vendor page describes a staged expansion and carries a later update date. Neither source establishes that every planned phase was operational by its target. Contract value, funding and duration are not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/somalia-jubaland-identity-semlex/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/somalia-jubaland-identity-semlex/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSemlex announced an award to produce biometric documents for Jubaland State in Somalia on 14 April 2014. The listed scope includes identity cards, civil-servant cards, residence permits and visas, alongside other documents. This is a subnational award announcement, not evidence of a federal Somali passport contract. The short company statement does not confirm implementation, acceptance, contract price, user charges, procurement route or duration. No current operational status or data-control arrangement is inferred from that historical announcement. The record remains dated to the announced award.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/somalia-midas-iom-capacity-programme/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/somalia-midas-iom-capacity-programme/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIOM reported MIDAS installations at eleven Somali entry points in November 2014, within its migration-management support. The statement identified Norway and Japan as donors and acknowledged a need for institutional finance and administration. In 2021, IOM described further training addressing data exchange, configuration and operation at four named entry points. These reports establish deployment and continuing support, not a single nationwide commercial contract or verified current coverage. The 2014 project duration and donor description are not automatically applied to the separate 2021 activity, whose funding is not specified in the cited passage.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/south-sudan-juba-security-afreximbank-securiport/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/south-sudan-juba-security-afreximbank-securiport/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTAfreximbank announced a USD 15 million term loan to Securiport Senegal SUARL for Juba International Airport on 24 December 2018. The five-year facility was intended to finance design, construction and commissioning of civil aviation and immigration security systems using future airline-fee flows. The bank identified the borrower as a Senegal-incorporated subsidiary of Securiport LLC in Washington, D.C.. The financing is documented, but the release does not establish delivery, acceptance, a total government contract price or repayment completion. The loan term is not treated as the duration of the underlying government contract.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/sri-lanka-evisa-ivs-gbs-vfs/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/sri-lanka-evisa-ivs-gbs-vfs/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTSri Lanka signed its outsourced electronic-visa agreement in December 2023. The National Audit Office records operation from April 2024 and the August interim suspension. VFS says it supplied technology and administrative services, with visa decisions retained by immigration. The Controller General defended replacement of the earlier system on technical and document-verification grounds. IVS-GBS disputed the audit process and said it would provide explanations. No final merits judgment, audit withdrawal or verified resumption of this contract is established here. The suspension date is historical, not a claim that Sri Lanka has no online visa service.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/sweden-passport-svenska-pass-2011/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/sweden-passport-svenska-pass-2011/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTGemalto announced renewal of Sweden's travel-document agreement with AB Svenska Pass on 16 March 2011. The company reported a five-year value of SEK 1 billion, covering enrolment, document production, personalisation and delivery to issuing authorities. The scope included the introduction of European residence permits alongside passports and identity cards. This is the supplier's award account, published as member news by an industry association. It does not establish current contract status, final expenditure or an official performance finding. Detailed ownership, payment and data-retention terms are not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/tanzania-eimmigration-hid/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/tanzania-eimmigration-hid/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTA supplier release dated 31 January 2018 identifies HID Global as Tanzania's prime e-immigration supplier and records the public passport inauguration that day. The scope includes passport issuance and personalisation in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, biometric matching, border control, electronic visas and permits. DLRS Group is named as the passport-book manufacturing partner. The statement does not independently demonstrate completion of every component. It gives no exact operating term, contract price, procurement procedure, fee allocation or data-retention clauses. Later delivery and contract amendments remain unconfirmed in this record.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/tanzania-national-id-iris-2022/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/tanzania-national-id-iris-2022/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIRIS reports signing a USD 39.69 million addendum with Tanzania's NIDA in March 2022 for national electronic identity cards and services. The figure belongs to the addendum and is not presented here as the lifetime value of Tanzania's identity programme. The company report does not provide the full instrument, delivery schedule, card quantity or government acceptance record. Funding, ownership and personal-data terms remain unconfirmed. This procurement is distinct from the immigration and passport systems in the register. The award is not evidence of completed delivery.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/thailand-2005-epassport-nec/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/thailand-2005-epassport-nec/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTNEC's historical award statement identifies a Thailand electronic-passport and passport-autogate award in 2005. Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that electronic passports have been issued since August 2005 and describes fingerprint and facial information stored in the document's contactless chip. NEC's corporate chronology identifies the Department of Consular Affairs as the customer. This entry concerns the initial system and does not attribute later passport contracts to NEC. The cited publications do not state the 2005 contract price, duration, ownership terms or the division of work with local partners.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/thailand-mfa-evisa-programme/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/thailand-mfa-evisa-programme/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThailand's Foreign Ministry records introducing its electronic-visa system at nine diplomatic or consular posts in 2019, starting in Beijing on 15 February. On 17 December 2024, the ministry announced that applications would be available through 94 embassies and consulates from 1 January 2025. That announcement is not a later confirmation of completion at every post. This is a government programme record, not an inferred supplier award. The opened ministry records do not establish the vendor, procurement route, contract duration, price or intellectual-property terms.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/thailand-epassport-dgm-thales/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/thailand-epassport-dgm-thales/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThailand's Foreign Ministry records signing its third-generation electronic-passport contract with the DGM consortium on 5 July 2019. Thales reported first deliveries on 8 July 2020 and an inauguration on 5 August, describing a programme for 15 million passports over seven years. The ministry's earlier planned launch date was 29 June 2020. The delivered passports and the programme's total planned quantity are different measures. The company release does not establish completion of all deliveries, independent acceptance, contract price, revenue allocation or a later renewal.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/gambia-passport-zetes-africard-2013/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/gambia-passport-zetes-africard-2013/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTZetes announced a fifteen-year subcontract from Africard in October 2013 for Gambian electronic passports and an airport identity-control gate. The build-operate-transfer project included enrolment and personalisation. Zetes expected approximately 40,000 passports annually and first delivery in December 2013. These were supplier forecasts, not verified output or completion figures. The statement was published as supplied material by Engineering News. It identifies no contract price, applicant charge or revenue-sharing formula. This passport arrangement is separate from the airport passenger-charge contract elsewhere in the register.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/gambia-aviation-immigration-security-securiport/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/gambia-aviation-immigration-security-securiport/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe Gambia's NAO management letter records a USD 20 arrival and departure charge and a contractual 75% share for Securiport and 25% for GCAA. It criticised procurement, collection controls and arrears payments. Securiport said the contract made government liable after failure to obtain an IATA collection code. NAO maintained its objection and called for legal advice. The president later defended the agreement. On 6 July 2026, The Standard reported a parliamentary recommendation to review the contract for possible termination, not a completed termination. Other revenue splits conflict with the audit. The 2024 rebid outcome remains unconfirmed.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/gambia-national-id-margins/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/gambia-national-id-margins/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe Gambia signed a contract with Ghana's Margins ID Group on 19 January 2026 to design, build, finance, co-operate and transfer a national ID system and an integrated digital ID system, as reported by Citi Newsroom. The tender opened in July 2024 and drew 11 international firms. Interior Minister Abdoulie Sanyang said it was the country's third attempt at a national ID system. In 2024 he told the National Assembly the previous Semlex ID contract had ended and was not extended. Fees, value and contract length were not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/togo-voter-registration-zetes-2019/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/togo-voter-registration-zetes-2019/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTZetes reported completing biometric voter registration with Togo's CENI for the municipal elections held on 30 June 2019. Its account describes registration using the 2018 electoral roll, fingerprint and photograph collection, and human review after automated duplicate matching. The company reported a final register of 3,423,099 voters after corrections and removal of 43,426 duplicates. These are the supplier's operational figures, not an independent audit finding. The release does not publish the contract price, signing date, procurement procedure or contractual data-retention rules.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uganda-nira-disaster-recovery-uspc/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uganda-nira-disaster-recovery-uspc/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTNIRA's disaster-recovery contract with USPC was examined in the Auditor General's report for the year ended June 2022. The auditor found the system undelivered at the November inspection, after full payment in June. Management reported a commitment to deliver by 30 November and said two progress reports existed, but they were unavailable for verification. Later delivery or recovery of damages is not confirmed. The report's contract-price table and narrative differ by UGX 1, which is recorded rather than silently reconciled.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uganda-security-printing-veridos-uspc/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uganda-security-printing-veridos-uspc/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTVeridos announced a 15-year security-document partnership with Uganda in October 2018, including a printing factory, electronic passports, identity cards and related systems. USPC dates the joint-venture agreement to 4 October 2018 and describes a 51 percent government shareholding. In March 2023, MPs questioned how Veridos was selected. A Finance Ministry official defended the evaluation and due diligence, and the committee requested records. This entry's review status refers to that hearing. Later acceptance, factory completion, total investment and final committee conclusions are not established here.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uganda-border-midas-iom-sbsu-2016/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uganda-border-midas-iom-sbsu-2016/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIOM announced Japanese funding for Uganda's SBSU programme in May 2016. Planned work included MIDAS upgrades at four border crossings, document-inspection equipment and an immigration training academy. IOM's 2017 annual report records formal project completion in April and describes the academy's MIDAS laboratory. These are the implementing organization's delivery statements, not an independent audit. The USD 1.8 million covers the broader programme and is not a software licence price. Neither source publishes a traveller charge, private supplier allocation or detailed data-retention agreement.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uae-abu-dhabi-biometric-journey-idemia/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uae-abu-dhabi-biometric-journey-idemia/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTIDEMIA said it and NEXT50 had been selected for a biometric passenger-journey project at Abu Dhabi International Airport's Midfield Terminal Building. The first phase was to cover selected bag drops, immigration eGates and boarding gates, followed by a broader rollout. The source is a company announcement dated 7 February 2023, not a completion certificate. It does not publish price, duration, procurement documents or the contracting entity's legal name. A digital identifier is described, but detailed data-control and retention terms remain not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uae-dubai-smart-gates-gdrfa/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uae-dubai-smart-gates-gdrfa/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTGDRFA-Dubai runs smart gates and a face recognition passport control system at Dubai airports. Its Director-General told a May 2022 industry forum that more than 100 million travellers used the 122 smart gates between 2019 and March 2022, as reported by Gulf News. In February 2023 an assistant director-general told Gulf News that registered residents and visitors could clear passport control without showing a passport, that biometric data registered since 2019 is stored on the GDRFA system, and that more than 12 million passengers used smart gates in 2022. No contract, vendor or audit was found.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uae-emirates-biometric-path-vision-box/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uae-emirates-biometric-path-vision-box/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTEmirates announced an operating biometric path at Dubai Terminal 3 on 23 October 2020, covering selected check-in desks, immigration gates, lounge access and boarding gates. The airline identified the immigration Smart Tunnel as a GDRFA collaboration. Vision-Box's release three days later identified its Orchestra platform and a long-term agreement. It said the first phase had been delivered at Concourse B, with expansion planned. This entry records that supplier contract, not an award for every Dubai immigration gate. Neither release publishes the contract price, precise term or retention schedule.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uk-digital-services-at-the-border/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uk-digital-services-at-the-border/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTDSAB began in 2014 to replace legacy border systems. The Home Office adopted in-house development after an options review. NAO found no value for money against the 2014 to 2019 plan, with one of three planned systems live by March 2019. Its 2020 summary estimated build costs at GBP 311 million and delay costs at GBP 173 million. The audit recognised better governance and planning after the reset but retained concerns about delivery and integration. This entry's status refers to the 2020 report, not a verified later completion.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uk-e-borders-raytheon/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uk-e-borders-raytheon/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe Home Office signed with Raytheon in November 2007 and terminated e-Borders in July 2010, citing missed milestones. The 2014 tribunal found wrongful termination and awarded GBP 186 million plus interest. The Home Office described the High Court as setting the award aside. Raytheon described a partially upheld challenge, a stayed decision and its appeal. Both recorded the March 2015 GBP 150 million settlement. NAO later recognised passenger-data capability but found no value for money so far across e-borders and its successors, with at least GBP 830 million spent.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uk-electronic-travel-authorisation/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uk-electronic-travel-authorisation/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTUK ETA is a permission to travel for eligible visitors, not a guarantee of entry. Official guidance lists GBP 20 per application and requires eligible children to apply. The Home Office privacy notice distinguishes app deletion from longer central retention. It says complex or adverse decisions are taken by trained staff, even though issuance can be automated. These sources establish the public service and its data policy, not a named supplier contract. Contract value, procurement route, ownership and supplier revenue share remain unpublished.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uk-passport-gemalto-2018/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uk-passport-gemalto-2018/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHM Passport Office awarded Gemalto an 11.5-year passport manufacturing and personalisation contract in April 2018, valued at approximately GBP 260 million. A parliamentary answer confirms signature on 18 April. Before award, Lord Jones asked about jobs and tax effects. The government said personalisation must stay in the UK. In September, the Home Office described its due diligence and said it had received no reports of criminality in Gemalto's overseas passport work. These statements are not independent audit findings. This record concerns the 2018 award, not later performance or renewal.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uk-passport-de-la-rue-2009/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uk-passport-de-la-rue-2009/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe immigration minister told Parliament that De La Rue signed the GBP 400 million passport contract on 2 July 2009, with a ten-year service beginning on 5 October 2010. Michael Meacher challenged procurement fairness, potential conflicts and the rejection of 3M's claimed GBP 100 million saving. Damian Green defended the competition and said no convincing evidence supported reopening it. This record preserves both positions without deciding their merits. Its operational status is historical. Later contract changes, final payments and handover acceptance are not established by this debate.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uk-semaphore-ibm/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uk-semaphore-ibm/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe National Audit Office's December 2020 DSAB summary identifies IBM as maintainer of Semaphore, a legacy system for analysing advance passenger information supplied by carriers. Figure 1 distinguishes it from the planned Advance Border Control replacement. This entry records the supplier role at the report date. It does not establish a current award or assign the wider DSAB budget to IBM. An individual contract value, signing date, term, procurement route and data-ownership clauses are not published in the opened summary.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uk-warnings-index-fujitsu/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/uk-warnings-index-fujitsu/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe National Audit Office's December 2020 DSAB summary identifies Fujitsu as maintainer of the Warnings Index, the legacy watchlist used at the UK border. Figure 1 describes the system separately from its intended replacement, Border Crossing. The record establishes the named maintenance role at that date, not the terms of a current Fujitsu award. The report does not publish an individual contract price, signing date or maintenance term in that figure. Programme-wide DSAB costs are not assigned to this supplier's contract.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-advance-passenger-information-system/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-advance-passenger-information-system/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTCBP describes APIS as the system supplying officers with passenger and crew manifest data before arrival and departure. Its overview, last modified on 3 August 2026, links the eAPIS submission portal and technical transmission guidance. It distinguishes carriers and vendors that completed testing from the government programme itself. This record does not assign the government system to every certified transmission provider. The overview does not identify a prime development contract, price, signing date, duration or revenue share. Those fields remain not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-cbp-biometric-entry-exit/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-cbp-biometric-entry-exit/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTCBP uses facial recognition to confirm the identity of departing air travellers, working with airlines and airports that capture photos at the gate. GAO reported in February 2017 that CBP aimed for initial biometric exit at one airport in 2018. By May 2020 the system ran at 27 airports. GAO found in September 2020 that it identified over 90 percent of travellers correctly but missed a 97 percent photo capture goal, and that CBP had audited only one airline partner. Its summary gives 27 airline partners and its findings say more than 20. These figures are compatible. Vendor and contract values were not found.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-customs-passenger-user-fee/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-customs-passenger-user-fee/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTCBP's fiscal-year 2027 notice sets the commercial aircraft or vessel passenger arrival fee at USD 7.61. The regulation explains that its printed base amounts are adjusted annually and describes collection and exemptions. This is a public inspection-funding programme, not a vendor contract. GAO recommended aligning customs and immigration fee arrangements and later marked the legislative-proposal recommendation implemented. That outcome means a proposal was submitted, not that Congress enacted consolidation. A supplier allocation, contract price, procurement route and system-ownership terms are not established by these sources.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-electronic-system-travel-authorization/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-electronic-system-travel-authorization/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe October 2026 Federal Register notice sets ESTA's approved-authorisation charge at USD 40.62 from 16 October, replacing USD 40.27. The older CBP help page still displays the prior amount. This correction follows the dated legal notice rather than treating the help-page price as current. The record describes a public travel-authorisation programme, not a private supplier concession. Contract value, supplier identity, procurement route, data ownership and a supplier revenue share are not established by these fee sources. An application charge should not be described as a payment on every flight.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-electronic-visa-update-system/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-electronic-visa-update-system/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTEVUS requires specified Chinese nationals holding ten-year US visitor visas to update information before travel. Its enrolment charge became USD 31.75 on 16 October 2026. This is a programme and funding record, not a supplier award. The cited notice does not identify a technology contractor, contract value, term, procurement route, asset-transfer arrangement or vendor share of the charge. Those fields remain unpublished here. A fee schedule is not evidence of an outsourcing decision or of independent acceptance of a supplier's work.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-dhs-hart-biometric-system-northrop-grumman/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-dhs-hart-biometric-system-northrop-grumman/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHART is intended to replace DHS's IDENT biometric database. Defense Daily reported a USD 95 million, 42-month Northrop Grumman development award in February 2018. GAO's September 2023 report found schedule and cost breaches, unreliable estimates and privacy gaps, alongside five fully met privacy requirements. DHS accepted its nine recommendations. GAO's tracker checked on 19 October 2026 still marks those recommendations Open. The entry's programme status remains tied to the 2023 audit. The original award value is not the programme's lifecycle cost.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-i94-land-arrival-record/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-i94-land-arrival-record/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe October 2026 notice retains a USD 30 I-94 application charge at land borders and distinguishes air and sea arrivals. This record covers the public arrival-record programme and its funding context, not a technology procurement award. The cited fee notice does not name a supplier, define a service term or publish an award value. It does not establish vendor revenue allocation, ownership transfer or data-retention terms. Those commercial and data fields remain unconfirmed. The application fee should not be presented as an airport-security levy.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-immigration-passenger-user-fee/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-immigration-passenger-user-fee/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTFederal law establishes an immigration passenger inspection fee and a Treasury user-fee account. The current regulation applies the statutory amounts and specifies passenger categories. The law permits funding for inspection, related information systems and other listed activities, not an automatic private-vendor payment. GAO records both progress and a remaining gap in its historical follow-up: a fee-harmonisation proposal was submitted, but DHS's joint-reporting recommendation was closed without implementation after ICE's cost study did not separate air and sea inspection costs. No supplier contract is identified here.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-passport-security-components-thales-infineon/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/us-passport-security-components-thales-infineon/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe Government Publishing Office announced awards to Infineon Technologies Americas Corporation and Thales DIS USA on 12 April 2023 for passport security components, including chips, software and packaging. The supply period can run for up to ten years. GPO manufactures passport books for the Department of State, which personalises them. The announcement does not establish that the vendors control passport-holder records or manufacture the entire book. It gives no award price, supplier allocation, procurement method or detailed data terms. Those fields remain not published.https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/vietnam-chip-citizen-id-programme/https://bordercontracts.org/contracts/vietnam-chip-citizen-id-programme/#19%20October%202026Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTVietnam's Ministry of Public Security reported 79.4 million chip-based identity cards at its March 2023 meeting. It separately recorded 23.5 million electronic-identity applications and 5.7 million activated accounts by 25 March. NEC's March 2022 statement identifies its automated biometric identification system as a component selected by the ministry, using fingerprint and facial matching. NEC reported migrating 16 million legacy records. This identifies the biometric-system provider, not the manufacturer of every card or supplier of the entire programme. The sources do not publish the component's price, contract duration or retention terms.