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Current case · Camp East Montana
Last verified August 20, 2026
The operator changed. The facility stayed open. The money kept moving.
A federal audit documented cost and conditions failures at a 5,000-capacity detention site in El Paso, Texas. ICE terminated the earlier Acquisition Logistics order for the government's convenience on April 17, 2026, GAO reports that a different vendor began operating the site on April 18, a noncompetitive award of $452,855,435.04 went to Amentum Services, Inc., and AP reported ICE's published justification to extend that award through September 30, 2027 at a potential additional cost of up to $776 million. Four GAO recommendations remain open.
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Case files with a leverage chain
Windows recorded
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Concrete windows, all statuses. Channels excluded.
Open
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Authored open, not derived
Hard dated
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3 carry no verified hard date
Institutional channels
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Standing official routes. Never counted as windows.
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Intervention windows
Ordered by status, then date certainty, then soonest verified date. A record without a verified hard date sorts last and never shows urgency.
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OpenAudit follow-up · Oversight effect
GAO recommendation 1 — cost-saving mechanisms in future acquisitions
Decision at issue
Whether ICE adopts a pricing mechanism that ties payment to the population actually held, including on the Camp East Montana contract.
Controls it
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security
Office of the Director, ICE
Federal
Date · Estimated date
Estimated implementation horizon: by the end of 2026
An agency estimate, not a deadline. GAO reports that DHS stated in May 2026 it was shifting the Camp East Montana contract to tiered pricing and estimated doing so by the end of 2026. December 31, 2026 is this project's normalized sort boundary for that “by end of 2026” estimate, and no calendar file is offered for it.
What could still change
Future awards of this type would stop paying full capacity costs for capacity not in use.
Institutional routes
Track recommendation status on the GAO product pageU.S. Government Accountability OfficeGAO publishes the open or closed status of each recommendation it makes.www.gao.gov
Still unknown
The end-of-2026 figure is an agency estimate reported by GAO, not a compliance deadline. No source establishes a date by which ICE must act, and December 31, 2026 is only this project's normalized representation of that estimate.
Whether the tiered-pricing change has been executed is not established in the sources indexed here.
GAO recommendation 2 — controls for pre-occupancy inspections
Decision at issue
Whether ICE puts a documented control in place before the next facility of this type is occupied.
Controls it
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security
Office of the Director, ICE
Federal
Date · Unknown date
No verified hard date
GAO recommendations do not carry a published compliance deadline. GAO-26-108886 was published June 9, 2026; that is a source publication date, not a deadline.
What could still change
A new site could not be occupied without a completed, documented pre-occupancy inspection.
Institutional routes
Track recommendation status on the GAO product pageU.S. Government Accountability OfficeGAO publishes the open or closed status of each recommendation it makes.www.gao.gov
Request the inspection policy and any implementing directiveU.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementInspection directives and their revision history are ordinarily requestable agency records.
Still unknown
No implementation date is published for this recommendation.
Whether ICE has since issued any implementing control beyond the existing policy it cited is not established in the sources indexed here.
GAO recommendation 3 — Army assessment and lessons learned
Decision at issue
Whether the Army completes and documents an assessment of its role in this acquisition.
Controls it
Department of the Army, Department of Defense
Office of the Secretary of the Army
Federal
Date · Unknown date
No verified hard date
GAO recommendations do not carry a published compliance deadline. GAO-26-108886 was published June 9, 2026; that is a source publication date, not a deadline.
What could still change
A written record of what the Army would do differently on the next interagency detention support acquisition.
Institutional routes
Track recommendation status on the GAO product pageU.S. Government Accountability OfficeGAO publishes the open or closed status of each recommendation it makes.www.gao.gov
Still unknown
No implementation date is published for this recommendation.
Whether the Army has begun or completed the assessment is not established in the sources indexed here.
GAO recommendation 4 — DHS assessment and lessons learned
Decision at issue
Whether DHS completes and documents an assessment covering capacity expansions run with other agencies.
Controls it
Department of Homeland Security
Office of the Secretary of Homeland Security
Federal
Date · Unknown date
No verified hard date
GAO recommendations do not carry a published compliance deadline. GAO-26-108886 was published June 9, 2026; that is a source publication date, not a deadline.
What could still change
A departmental record governing how the next multi-agency expansion is planned, inspected, and priced.
Institutional routes
Track recommendation status on the GAO product pageU.S. Government Accountability OfficeGAO publishes the open or closed status of each recommendation it makes.www.gao.gov
Still unknown
No implementation date is published for this recommendation.
Whether the ICE and Office of the Chief Readiness Support Officer assessment has begun or concluded is not established in the sources indexed here.
Reported extension period would end September 30, 2027
Decision at issue
Whether the reported extension is executed, and on what terms, quantity, and price basis.
Controls it
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
ICE Office of Acquisition Management
Federal
Date · Estimated date
Reported period end: September 30, 2027
Reported extension period end, as described in AP's reporting on ICE's justification notice. It is not a verified decision deadline and this project does not present it as one.
What could still change
Competition instead of a sole-source extension, a price structure tied to the population actually held, or a shorter extension period.
Institutional routes
Request the published justification notice and its approval recordU.S. Department of Homeland SecurityThe justification for other than full and open competition, and the approvals attached to it, are ordinarily requestable records.
Still unknown
Whether the reported extension has been executed is not established by the records indexed here.
The $776 million figure is an AP-reported potential extension value; no obligated amount for an extension appears on the award record read here.
Current period of performance ends September 30, 2026
Decision at issue
Whether ICE extends the noncompetitive award, recompetes the requirement, or ends it at the recorded period end.
Controls it
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
ICE Office of Acquisition Management
Federal
Date · Hard date
September 30, 2026
Period-of-performance end date on the federal award record for PIID 70CDCR26C00000016. It is a period end, not a published decision date, and no source establishes when ICE must decide.
What could still change
A competed follow-on, a shorter period, tiered pricing tied to actual population, or no follow-on award at all.
Institutional routes
Track the award record for modification actionsUSAspending.govModification actions on PIID 70CDCR26C00000016 appear on the public award record after they are reported.www.usaspending.gov
Appropriations and DHS oversight committeesU.S. CongressCommittees with standing jurisdiction can request the acquisition file before a follow-on action is signed.
Still unknown
The date by which ICE must decide is not established by any source indexed here.
Whether a modification has been signed after the August 20, 2026 review is not established here.
Standing official routes. Each establishes only that the channel exists. No status, no date, no calendar file.
Institutional channel · not a window
ICE FOIA records channel
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · ICE FOIA Office
ICE operates a published FOIA request channel. Concretely requestable here: the justification for other than full and open competition behind the reported extension, contractor invoices for the period GAO audited, and the pre-occupancy inspection file GAO found missing.
What this does not establish
The official page establishes only that a request channel exists. It does not establish that any request has been filed, that a responsive record exists, that it is non-exempt, or that anything will be released.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security · DHS Office of Inspector General
DHS OIG publishes a hotline that accepts complaints concerning DHS programs, personnel, and contractors. GAO documented contract-performance and oversight failures at this facility in GAO-26-108886.
What this does not establish
The official page establishes only that DHS OIG accepts complaints. It does not establish that any complaint has been submitted, that a submission will be investigated, or that any OIG review of this facility, contract, or death exists.
U.S. House of Representatives · Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement
The subcommittee's official page states oversight jurisdiction over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That standing jurisdiction is the whole of what is established here.
What this does not establish
Standing jurisdiction only. No hearing, letter, inquiry, markup, or commitment to act on this facility, contract, or extension is established by this or any source indexed here.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · ICE FOIA Office
Concretely requestable here: contract modifications, deficiency notices, and inspection reports for PIID 70CDCR26FR0000042 covering Mesa Verde and Golden State.
What this does not establish
The official page establishes only that a request channel exists. It does not establish that any modification, deficiency notice, or inspection report exists, is non-exempt, or would be released.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · ICE FOIA Office
Concretely requestable here: any successor solicitation, award, or bridge action for this facility after the June 30, 2026 period end recorded on the federal award record.
What this does not establish
The official page establishes only that a request channel exists. It does not establish that a successor action exists, and no intervention window is published for this case.
A date passing never closes a window. It becomes stale — needs review, and stays visible.
A record with no verified hard date never produces a countdown, an urgency label, or a calendar file.
Ingestion failure changes freshness reporting only. It never changes an intervention status.
Nothing here is created, matched, classified, or published by an automated system or a language model.
Every date states whether it is a decision deadline, a period end, a reported period end, or a source publication date.
Absence is written as not found in sources currently indexed, never as none.
Statuses shown: Open, Upcoming, Uncertain, Stale — needs review, Closed, Completed. Derived counts recompute from the same records that back /api/leverage.json.