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Clarissa Rippy, a GSA contract specialist, recalls her "line in the sand moment" when she learned GSA awarded a contract to transport unaccompanied minors. "My line in the sand moment was when I found out that GSA had awarded a contract to a company to transport unaccompanied minors." It felt like "someone kicked me in my gut," and she immediately searched online, finding links to NGOs and companies such as Acuity; "MVM protested that award and the contract wound up back with MVM." She notes: "Action obligation, 40,000,000. Total contract value, $347,000,000." She cites DHS funding: "Within the last nine months, MVM has received over $129,000,000 from the Department of Homeland Security, $719,000,000 from DHS overall." Minors were "shipped all over the place" and sometimes "late at night." She questions why the contract requires "a thousand children within a twenty four hour period of notification" and says the view treats children as "widgets or products."