Biden Awarded Massive Half-Billion Dollar No-Bid Contract to Biden Nonprofit

Such unabashed, depraved corruption.

Open, unrepentant rot at the core.

A new inspector general’s report released Thursday morning accuses the former Biden administration of bypassing federal rules when issuing a more than half-a-billion dollar “sole source contract” to a nonprofit led by a former Biden official to deal with the Biden created unaccompanied minor crisis.

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Biden admin skirted rules to deliver massive contract to nonprofit run by ex-official, IG report reveals

A former Biden-Harris official was tapped to lead the nonprofit receiving the contract just months prior

By Alec Schemmel Fox News, February 12, 2026:

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EXCLUSIVE: A new inspector general’s report released Thursday morning accuses the former Biden administration of bypassing federal rules when issuing a more than half-a-billion dollar “sole source contract” to a nonprofit led by a former Biden official to deal with the unaccompanied minor crisis in 2021.

The Administration of Children and Families (ACF), which is under HHS and manages unaccompanied minors, awarded $529 million for a one-year contract in March 2021 to a nonprofit called Family Endeavors Inc. to help establish and manage a new emergency intake site in Texas (EIS) with 2,000 extra beds. However, according to the OIG’s new report, Biden’s ACF failed to follow federal procurement requirements for full and open competition due to their own “insufficient planning,” rather than the COVID-induced emergency the Biden administration cited.

Furthermore, the inspector general’s report found that the contract price was more than double the agency’s own cost estimate of $244 million, and indicated that the agency “subsequently modified” the award 15 times, extending the period until May 2022 and increasing the value to more than three times the original estimate from ACF.

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DOGE SAYS TEXAS NONPROFIT WITH FORMER BIDEN TRANSITION MEMBER REAPED MILLIONS OPERATING EMPTY FACILITY

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A family walks toward a barrier blocking passage across the U.S. border. (Department of Health and Human Services)

“ACF knew well in advance of March 2021 that it was projected to need more shelter beds than existing sites could provide and should have begun contract planning at that time,” the report states. “ACF failed to reasonably conduct the necessary advanced planning to execute a contract for procurement of those beds and related services using full and open competition.”

The report says ACF made only a limited attempt to do the necessary research for the contract, and did not even follow the findings it came up with.

On March 13, 2021, Endeavors emailed ORR again with an unsolicited proposal, which included a statement of capabilities and concept of operations for an emergency shelter to serve unaccompanied alien children. Three days later, on March 16, 2021, ACF awarded a firm-fixed-price sole source contract to Endeavors to provide and operate an EIS facility in Pecos, Texas,” the report states.

Emergency intake site for migrants
Images of the emergency intake site in Pecos, Texas, operated by Family Endeavors Inc. The nonprofit received $529 million to build out 2,000 beds. (Department of Health and Human Services)

The contract beginning March 2021 was “by far the largest ever” for Endeavors Family Inc., and came months after the company hired Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, who served as an advisor to the Biden-Harris transition team. The contract was also the second largest ever awarded by the agency, according to Axios.

“Despite multiple requests, ACF could not provide support for its review of the Endeavors quote, the price analysis techniques used to analyze the quote, or an [independent Government cost estimate] for an EIS dated before the contract was awarded,” the new inspector general’s report states. “When we asked for documentation, ACF told us that it was under significant time constraints to award contracts.”

Family Endeavors Inc. did not immediately respond to an after-hours email from Fox News seeking comment.

In September 2023, Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., then chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., then chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Accountability, sent a letter to Lorenzen-Strait about his ties to both the Biden administration and Endeavors. The letter requested him to both reach out to the committee for an interview and mandated he preserve records on his communications with leaders involved in granting other “sole source” contracts.