What public records establish about GardaWorld Federal Services, LLC: its former Aegis identity, GardaWorld parent relationship, current executive and board roster, the ICE Surprise warehouse award and environmental-review pause, selected federal procurement and oversight history, and the ownership and performance questions the public record does not yet answer.
What these records do not establish The record does not establish that the renovated structure opened, that it holds anyone, or who would run it. The award is construction and renovation scope. USAspending reports BC PARTNERS LLP as the parent recipient for this award. GardaWorld's March 5, 2025 recapitalization disclosure says founder and selected management hold approximately 70% of the global parent while BC Partners continues as a minority investor alongside other minority investors. The USAspending field is preserved as source-reported and is not treated as a current legal-ownership determination. Nothing in the award record establishes GardaWorld as the operator of the resulting facility.
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Who this company is on the record
Identity, registered identifiers and address, as published in the cited records.
Legal name
GARDAWORLD FEDERAL SERVICES, LLC
Display name
GardaWorld Federal Services
Legal form and jurisdiction
Limited liability company · Delaware
Lifecycle status
active
foreign registration
M20000006215
Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. A foreign registration does not establish beneficial ownership.
Registry identifier
20-5211532
Florida Department of State, FEI/EIN as published. The public identifier does not establish bank-account ownership, transaction tax treatment, or parent identity.
Also filed as
Aegis Defense Services, LLC · GardaWorld Federal Services · GARDAWORLD FEDERAL SERVICES LLC
Spellings and brands carried for the same legal entity in the cited records. A different spelling is not a different company, and a brand is not a subsidiary.
Principal executive office
1700 N MOORE ST, STE 1875, ARLINGTON, VA 22209
Corporate office as published in the cited filings. Not a detention facility.
Completeness
Partial dossier
Reviewed scope covers exact identity, former name, current office, parent relationship, 15 people and 19 roles, one indexed ICE award, two corporate-history events, one bid-protest matter, three oversight matters, and eight open questions. It is not a complete ownership, award, subcontract, political-finance, facility-operation, litigation, or financial census. Reviewed August 24, 2026.
Company websiteA company website is a party source, not independent verification.
Relationships established by the cited corporate and registry records, each bounded by what that record states. A parent relationship transfers no award, facility role, workforce conduct, legal matter, or liability.
Recorded corporate parent (1)
Garda World Security Corporation
Corporation · Jurisdiction not supplied · Ownership percentage not supplied · Directness not established
GardaWorld's official history records its 2015 acquisition of Aegis Group and currently lists GardaWorld Federal as a GardaWorld business; the exact U.S. LLC later recorded a legal name change.
Names, titles and dates exactly as the cited records publish them. A title establishes no participation in a contract, a subsidiary's work, or a government decision.
Board recorded at the annual meeting (8)
Names and titles as published in the cited proxy statement and voting-results filing.
Reported in the cited filing; no end date established
Rick Lang
Vice President, Response Logistics
Reported in the cited filing; no end date established
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Selected corporate events
Each amount keeps its own meaning and its own line. A sale price, an accounting gain, a repayment and a repurchase are different objects and are never added together.
GardaWorld acquisition of Aegis Group
business acquisition · completed · No event date stated · Announced July 13, 2015
Recorded for Garda World Security Corporation · GARDAWORLD FEDERAL SERVICES, LLC
GardaWorld's official history records its 2015 acquisition of Aegis Group, whose U.S. federal-services business later used the GardaWorld Federal name and recorded a legal-name change.
Does not establish the exact closing date, intermediate entity chain, current child percentage, or transfer of every Aegis legal matter.
other · closed · Event March 5, 2025 · Announced March 5, 2025
Recorded for Garda World Security Corporation
GardaWorld reported a C$14 billion valuation, approximately 70% ownership by its founder and selected management, and remaining equity held by HPS-managed funds and other minority investors including BC Partners.
Source-reported company valuation for recapitalization
$14,000,000,000.00 CAD
Source-reported
Company-reported transaction valuation; not market capitalization, an award, government expenditure, or detention-specific value.
Does not establish direct child ownership, child valuation, or any relationship between recapitalization and the ICE award.
Represented in this dataset. Not company revenue, not total federal business, not market share.
Award records held
1
Current award value
$313,357,612.46
Base and exercised options on 1 of 1 awards. Not cash paid.
Obligated
$313,357,612.46
Legally committed on 1 of 1 awards.
Outlayed
$3,863,852.98
Cash disbursed across all 1 awards.
Potential value
$704,091,073.00
Ceiling if every option is exercised. It may never be reached.
Facilities named in these awards
0
Only where the award description names the facility and a reviewer matched it.
Awards naming an unmatched facility
0
The record names a facility; no confirmed directory row exists in this extract.
Awards identifying no facility
1
Counted here rather than assigned to a site on a guess.
Earliest to latest period
Mar 06, 2026 → Mar 05, 2027
Across the awards held here, not the recipient's full contracting history.
Entity resolution: The award is construction and renovation scope. USAspending reports BC PARTNERS LLP as the parent recipient for this award. GardaWorld's March 5, 2025 recapitalization disclosure says founder and selected management hold approximately 70% of the global parent while BC Partners continues as a minority investor alongside other minority investors. The USAspending field is preserved as source-reported and is not treated as a current legal-ownership determination. Nothing in the award record establishes GardaWorld as the operator of the resulting facility.
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When these awards run
One row per award, spanning only the period the source reports. Bar length encodes time, never money.
Current period of performance
Potential period if options are exercised
A dated contract action
Source: USAspending.gov, retrieved 2026-08-20. Bar length encodes time only. It carries no information about amount.
Award periods as a table (1)
Reported period of performance and current value for each award
Award
Start
Current end
Potential end
Current value
70CDCR26FR0000043
Mar 06, 2026
Mar 05, 2027
Feb 17, 2029
$313,357,612.46
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Award records
Current status of the work
The award was issued for renovation of an ICE-owned structure in Surprise, Arizona. A July 2026 stipulation paused physical conversion and detention use pending environmental review. The reviewed record does not establish contract termination, cancellation, refund, opening, or occupancy.
THIS TASK ORDER IS TO PROCURE THE RENOVATION OF EXISTING, ICE-OWNED PERMANENT STRUCTURE IN SUPRISE, AZ TO SERVE AS A PROCESSING AND DETENTION FACILITY AND PROVIDE ALL NECESSARY WRAPAROUND SERVICES FOR OPERATION OF THE FACILITY.
Obligated $313,357,612.46 · Outlayed $3,863,852.98 · 5 contract actions · Period to March 5, 2027
Facility: The record does not identify a facility — The record describes renovation of an ICE-owned structure in Surprise, Arizona. It names no facility, and the record does not establish that a facility opened there. The record does not identify a facility. Place of performance, city and area of responsibility are not facility identity.
An order reported in public but not yet found in any primary federal award record. Nothing here is counted in the totals, award records or exports above.
DEVELOPING · PRIMARY AWARD RECORD PENDING
DHS said it had stopped using WEXMAC. A new San Antonio order is now reported under it.
Project Salt Box reports that ICE awarded GardaWorld $17.3 million on August 27 to begin converting the Oakmont 410 warehouse. The exact task-order PIID and federal transaction record have not yet been captured.
Property purchase
$66.1M
Reported initial order action
$17.3M
Reported potential ceiling
$1.0B
None of these figures is included in this recipient’s award totals, obligation or outlay figures, award count, or award exports. They are reported amounts with no captured primary federal record. This recipient is not established as the operator of the facility.
A facility appears here only where the award's own description names it. Nothing is inferred from a recipient's known portfolio.
No award record held for this recipient names a facility that matches a row in this project's ICE directory extract. That is a limit of the records indexed here, not a finding that the recipient operates no facility.
The records for 70CDCR26FR0000043 do not identify a facility. Those awards are excluded from every facility total on this site.
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Action-to-evidence crosswalk
Each contract action beside the source registry entry it was read from, the retrieval provenance of that snapshot, and the recorded corporate relationships whose own period contains the action date.
Recorded relationships in effect on this action date
No recorded relationship has a period containing this action date.
Period not established, so coverage of this action is not established: Garda World Security Corporation
The crosswalk states where each action was read from and which recorded relationships were in effect on its date. A relationship in effect on an action date did not thereby sign, price, perform, receive, or benefit from that action, and no money on an action is assigned to a related entity, a person, a facility, or a service location.
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Every contract action on this award
One row per action the award record reports, in date order, with the obligation each action moved and the running total. Select a modification number to read the exact source fields behind that row.
70CDCR26FR0000043 · 5 contract actions
Cumulative reported obligation
Potential value (all options) — $704,091,073.00
Current value (exercised options) — $313,357,612.46
Cash outlayed to date, as of 2026-08-20 — $3,863,852.98
Source: USAspending.gov award 70CDCR26FR0000043, retrieved 2026-08-20. Unit: US dollars, nominal, not inflation-adjusted.
The line steps only on dates the source records. Cash outlay is reported as a single to-date total with no action-level dates, so it is drawn as one marker at the retrieval date and never as a line across time. Each action mark is keyboard focusable.
Contract actions as a table (5) — select a modification for its evidence trace
Every contract action reported for award 70CDCR26FR0000043
Action date
Mod
Action
This action
Cumulative obligation
Mar 06, 2026
DELIVERY ORDER
$313,357,612.46
$313,357,612.46
Apr 22, 2026
OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION
$0.00
$313,357,612.46
Apr 23, 2026
OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION
$0.00
$313,357,612.46
May 06, 2026
SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT FOR WORK WITHIN SCOPE
$0.00
$313,357,612.46
Jun 05, 2026
SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT FOR WORK WITHIN SCOPE
$0.00
$313,357,612.46
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Acquisition middlemen
Where this company appears in the reviewed warehouse-acquisition records: award competition as recorded, project state, and the oversight inquiry it received.
The acquisition middlemen
Packet 13-2026-08-21 · cutoff 2026-08-21
Congressional warehouse inquiry
Letter sent 2026-03-30 as a warehouse contractor; response not-located-in-reviewed-public-sources. Receiving an inquiry is not a finding.
Acquisition role on the record
warehouse-renovation-and-operation · multiple-award fair opportunity, full and open · 6 offers reported
Surprise warehouse (AZ)
$313,357,612.46 obligations · potential value $704,091,073.00 · physical-conversion-pause-pending-environmental-review as of 2026-07-01
Obligations and potential value are separate amounts and are never added. Nothing in this panel establishes wrongdoing, waste, or a no-bid award: where a task order is shown, the offers-received field on that order is shown with it. GardaWorld Federal Services LLC is named here because it appears in a reviewed record, not because a conclusion has been reached about it.
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Legal and oversight record
Procedural posture as the cited records state it. A vote, a filing account or an inquiry is not a finding of wrongdoing.
SOC LLC protest of State Department task order to Aegis d/b/a GardaWorld Federal Services
U.S. Government Accountability Office · B-420806 · Closed August 30, 2022 · Status as of August 30, 2022
Protest denied
Parties as published
SOC LLC — Protester
Aegis Defense Services, LLC d/b/a GardaWorld Federal Services — Awardee and intervenor
U.S. Department of State — Agency
Procedural record
August 30, 2022 · decision
GAO denied SOC's protest of the State Department's security-services task order to Aegis d/b/a GardaWorld Federal Services.
U.S. Government Accountability Office · court holding · Protest denied
GAO found no basis to sustain the protest and concluded the reviewed evaluation was consistent with the solicitation criteria and applicable requirements.
The decision concerns a different State Department security procurement. It does not establish current detention qualifications, universal performance, or the legality of the Surprise award.
Evaluation of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security's Aegis Construction Contract at Camp Eggers, Afghanistan
U.S. Department of State Office of Inspector General · July 1, 2019 · ESP-19-04
The report names Aegis Defense Services, LLC; GAO and the state name-change record support continuity to the current exact company.
Construction placed on a security contract under expediency pressure
OIG found that the Department used an existing Diplomatic Security contract rather than the bureau normally responsible for construction, primarily because of expediency and stated resource constraints; OIG also found the managing bureau lacked construction expertise.
This historical procurement structure does not establish that the Surprise procurement used the same process or failed for the same reasons.
Pre-award warning and inadequate corrective action
OIG reported that a consultant warned the project would probably not finish on time or budget, and that the Department failed to take meaningful corrective action as Aegis missed milestones and contract requirements.
Does not establish fraud, intent, or current Surprise performance.
OIG reported that the project was terminated for convenience after little work, the design remained incomplete, and $103.2 million had been spent without discernible benefit to the Department or intended beneficiaries.
The amount is a historical State Department expenditure, not ICE spending, Surprise spending, company revenue, or current liability.
Questions the reviewed records do not answer, with the evidence that is missing and where we are looking for it.
What this does not establish
An open question records missing evidence. It is not a finding.
corporate structure
What is the complete direct and intermediate legal-entity chain from Garda World Security Corporation to GardaWorld Federal Services, LLC?
Why it matters
The relationship is established, but directness, intermediate entities, and child percentage are not.
Missing evidence
Organization chart; member schedule; intermediate entities; ownership percentages
Where we are looking
Company governance; Delaware records; transaction documents; SAM responsibility records
Searches recorded
August 24, 2026 — Reviewed Slice 6 primary-source set and current branch: What is the complete direct and intermediate legal-entity chain from Garda World Security Corporation to GardaWorld Federal Services, LLC? (partial). The packet records the source-supported portion and preserves the remaining gap.
Status
partially answered
An open question records a missing evidentiary link. It is not a finding that misconduct, hidden ownership, or an unreported relationship exists.
award identity
Why does the August 2026 USAspending snapshot report BC Partners LLP as parent recipient after the March 2025 recapitalization made BC Partners a minority investor?
Why it matters
The award field and current ownership disclosure answer different questions and may reflect stale or hierarchical reporting.
Missing evidence
SAM hierarchy at award date; responsibility record; parent-field lineage; ownership updates submitted to government
Where we are looking
SAM.gov history; FPDS raw records; USAspending raw JSON; contract responsibility file
Searches recorded
August 24, 2026 — Reviewed Slice 6 primary-source set and current branch: Why does the August 2026 USAspending snapshot report BC Partners LLP as parent recipient after the March 2025 recapitalization made BC Partners a minority investor? (partial). The packet records the source-supported portion and preserves the remaining gap.
Status
partially answered
An open question records a missing evidentiary link. It is not a finding that misconduct, hidden ownership, or an unreported relationship exists.
contract status
What is the current contractual and physical status of the Surprise project after the July 2026 environmental-review stipulation?
Why it matters
The pause is established, but award suspension, modification, termination, payment, and current scope are not.
Missing evidence
Post-July modifications; stop-work correspondence; invoices; review schedule; current scope
Where we are looking
ICE contract file; Navy WEXMAC records; USAspending/FPDS refresh; Arizona docket
Searches recorded
August 24, 2026 — Reviewed Slice 6 primary-source set and current branch: What is the current contractual and physical status of the Surprise project after the July 2026 environmental-review stipulation? (partial). The packet records the source-supported portion and preserves the remaining gap.
Status
partially answered
An open question records a missing evidentiary link. It is not a finding that misconduct, hidden ownership, or an unreported relationship exists.
subcontracting
Which entities were to perform design, construction, detention operations, medical care, food, transportation, and facility services at Surprise?
Why it matters
The prime award and renovation scope do not identify every performer or establish a GardaWorld operator role.
Missing evidence
Subcontract plan; named subcontractors; statements of work; operator agreement; medical and food arrangements
Where we are looking
Prime contract; subaward records; permits; company disclosures
Searches recorded
August 24, 2026 — Reviewed Slice 6 primary-source set and current branch: Which entities were to perform design, construction, detention operations, medical care, food, transportation, and facility services at Surprise? (partial). The packet records the source-supported portion and preserves the remaining gap.
Status
partially answered
An open question records a missing evidentiary link. It is not a finding that misconduct, hidden ownership, or an unreported relationship exists.
governance
What are the effective dates, independence determinations, committee assignments, and appointment authority for the current GardaWorld Federal board?
Why it matters
The public roster identifies directors and a chair but not those governance attributes.
Company governance; transaction documents; state records
Searches recorded
August 24, 2026 — Reviewed Slice 6 primary-source set and current branch: What are the effective dates, independence determinations, committee assignments, and appointment authority for the current GardaWorld Federal board? (partial). The packet records the source-supported portion and preserves the remaining gap.
Status
partially answered
An open question records a missing evidentiary link. It is not a finding that misconduct, hidden ownership, or an unreported relationship exists.
award coverage
What is the complete federal detention, holding, processing, and removal-support award universe for this exact entity and former legal name?
Why it matters
The branch indexes one ICE award while the company has broader federal contracting history.
Missing evidence
Prime awards; subawards; bids; IDIQ task orders; identifier history
Where we are looking
USAspending; FPDS; SAM.gov; DHS and State files
Searches recorded
August 24, 2026 — Reviewed Slice 6 primary-source set and current branch: What is the complete federal detention, holding, processing, and removal-support award universe for this exact entity and former legal name? (partial). The packet records the source-supported portion and preserves the remaining gap.
Status
partially answered
An open question records a missing evidentiary link. It is not a finding that misconduct, hidden ownership, or an unreported relationship exists.
political finance
What lobbying, political-contribution, trade-association, and government-affairs activity is attributable to the exact U.S. LLC or parent during the Surprise procurement window?
Why it matters
The reviewed packet did not establish a complete political-activity record for the exact entities.
Missing evidence
Lobbying registrations; political transactions; trade associations; government contacts
Where we are looking
Senate LDA; FEC; state systems; company disclosures
Searches recorded
August 24, 2026 — Reviewed Slice 6 primary-source set and current branch: What lobbying, political-contribution, trade-association, and government-affairs activity is attributable to the exact U.S. LLC or parent during the Surprise procurement window? (partial). The packet records the source-supported portion and preserves the remaining gap.
Status
partially answered
An open question records a missing evidentiary link. It is not a finding that misconduct, hidden ownership, or an unreported relationship exists.
identity history
Which historical UEI, CAGE, DUNS, SAM, and registration records belong to this exact entity before and after the 2023 name change?
Why it matters
Secondary mirrors expose candidate identifiers and possible immediate-owner records, but official lineage was not obtained.
Missing evidence
Official SAM history; CAGE history; name-change or novation documents; DUNS-to-UEI migration
Where we are looking
SAM.gov; DLA CAGE records; novation files; state name-history image
Searches recorded
August 24, 2026 — Reviewed Slice 6 primary-source set and current branch: Which historical UEI, CAGE, DUNS, SAM, and registration records belong to this exact entity before and after the 2023 name change? (partial). The packet records the source-supported portion and preserves the remaining gap.
Status
partially answered
An open question records a missing evidentiary link. It is not a finding that misconduct, hidden ownership, or an unreported relationship exists.
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Corrections to this record
Append-only. The timeline gives each correction's exact discovery and publication time and the dates of the sources behind it; the ledger below keeps the previous value visible beside the corrected one.
Discovered August 24, 2026, 17:15 UTC · Published August 24, 2026, 17:15 UTC
source correction · entityMatchNote
Adds a boundary between USAspending's parent-recipient field and separately sourced current ownership. No generated award field or amount changes.
"The award is construction and renovation scope. Nothing in the record establishes GardaWorld as the operator of the resulting facility."
Now recorded
"The award is construction and renovation scope. USAspending reports BC PARTNERS LLP as the parent recipient for this award. GardaWorld's March 5, 2025 recapitalization disclosure says founder and selected management hold approximately 70% of the global parent while BC Partners continues as a minority investor alongside other minority investors. The USAspending field is preserved as source-reported and is not treated as a current legal-ownership determination. Nothing in the award record establishes GardaWorld as the operator of the resulting facility."
The branch exposed the source-reported BC Partners parent field without the later official ownership context needed to prevent it from being misread as a current canonical parent relationship.
Adds a boundary between USAspending's parent-recipient field and separately sourced current ownership. No generated award field or amount changes.
Discovered August 24, 2026 · Published August 24, 2026
Edges are drawn only from records cited on this site: award recipients, parent recipients, awarding agency, and named performance locations. There is no influence score, no lobbying edge without a filing, and no edge inferred from timing or name similarity. A missing edge means no source, not no relationship.
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Corporate case-file sources
Every source cited by the corporate sections above, once each.
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Sources
Award figures retrieved from the USAspending.gov API on 2026-08-20. Amounts are nominal US dollars as reported by the awarding agency.