Activating capacity in Colorado, with a fixed federal period end and an unread county land-use record.
Big Horn Facility: what can still be stopped
A $106.5 million GEO Group award tied to the Big Horn Facility in Hudson, Colorado, with a period ending July 8, 2027. The lease filed with the SEC places the property in Weld County by legal description; no source indexed here establishes that anyone is detained there.
- Decision at issue
- Whether ICE renews, replaces, or ends this award at the recorded period end.
- Who controls it
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · ICE Office of Acquisition Management
- Date · certainty
- July 8, 2027 · Hard date
- Current status
- Upcoming
- Evidence basis
- Observed
A reported period end is not a verified decision deadline. No source indexed here establishes when this agency must decide, obligate, renew, or exercise an option.
The chain
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Public money
Federal detention contracting
02
Award / reported extension
70CDCR26FR0000101 · $106.5M
03
Audit findings
See source docket
04
Open recommendations
0 recorded
05
Responsible institutions
Federal acquisition, with a Weld County land-use question that has not been read from county records. The county itself is established by the legal description in the filed lease.
06
Remaining routes
1 recorded
Money and dates, kept apart
Amount types and date types are never blended. Each cell below states what it is.
- Initial award on federal record
- $106.5M
- Current award value recorded on the federal award record for 70CDCR26FR0000101. Not a statement that this amount was obligated, outlayed, or paid.
- Obligated at source snapshot
- $15.7M
- Amount obligated as of the snapshot read from the federal award record. Obligation is a commitment, not a payment.
- Outlayed at source snapshot
- Not established
- Amount actually disbursed as of that snapshot. Obligation and outlay are separate reported fields, so a low figure does not establish that less was spent.
- Reported potential extension
- Not established
- No reported extension value is recorded for this case.
- Current award period ends
- July 8, 2027
- Period-of-performance end on the federal award record. Not a published decision date.
- Reported extension period end
- Not established
- No reported extension period is recorded for this case.
What can still be stopped
Concrete decision points only. A route absent here was not verified — it was not omitted for convenience.
Other routes · 1
Period ends July 8, 2027
Decision at issue
Whether ICE renews, replaces, or ends this award at the recorded period end.
- Controls it
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- ICE Office of Acquisition Management
- Federal
- Date · Hard date
- July 8, 2027
- Period-of-performance end date on the federal award record for PIID 70CDCR26FR0000101. A period end, not a published decision date.
What could still change
The terms, duration, or existence of the follow-on award.
Institutional routes
- Track the award record for modification actionsUSAspending.govModifications are reported to the public award record after they are signed.
Still unknown
- No source indexed here establishes a date by which ICE must decide.
What this does not establish
What the evidence establishes
- The award ceiling, the recipient, and the period end appear on the federal record.
What it does not establish
- That $106.5 million will actually be spent. A ceiling is not a payment.
- The current Weld County land-use posture. The lease legal description establishes the county; it does not establish permitting, approvals or occupancy.
- That the facility is operating or holding anyone.
Linked receipt
70CDCR26FR0000101 · $106.5M
The largest receipt in this dataset by current award value, with a far smaller amount obligated at the cited transaction snapshot.
Institutional channels · not windows
Standing official routes. Each establishes only that the channel exists. No request, complaint, hearing, or investigation is implied.
No official channel is published for this case.
Unknowns and records worth obtaining
Unresolved questions, not claims. Absence from the record is not evidence of absence.
- Weld County is established by the legal description in the lease filed with the SEC. The county land-use and occupancy posture is unverified. Land-use applications, approvals, and occupancy records are ordinarily county public records; no primary county record has been read here, so no permitting route is published as an intervention window.
- No source indexed here establishes a date by which ICE must decide.
Institution map
Which body holds which decision. Institutions only — no personal contact routes are published here.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
ICE Office of Acquisition Management
Period ends July 8, 2027
Federal
Portable evidence brief
Portable intervention packet
Canonical citation
Detention Receipts. "Leverage: Big Horn Facility." Last verified August 20, 2026. Primary record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CDCR26FR0000101_7012_70CDCR26D00000049_7012/
A calendar file is generated only for a date printed on a cited record. Reported or estimated period ends are not treated as deadlines.
Period ends July 8, 2027
Period-of-performance end date on the federal award record for PIID 70CDCR26FR0000101. A period end, not a published decision date.
Portable intervention packet
Canonical citation
Detention Receipts. "Leverage: Big Horn Facility." Last verified August 20, 2026. Primary record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CDCR26FR0000101_7012_70CDCR26D00000049_7012/
A calendar file is generated only for a date printed on a cited record. Reported or estimated period ends are not treated as deadlines.