One award, two California facilities, one renewal decision on a printed date.
Mesa Verde and Golden State: what can still be stopped
A $41,167,972.72 award to THE GEO GROUP, INC. covering detention services at Mesa Verde and Golden State, with a current period of performance ending December 19, 2026.
- 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
- December 19, 2026 · 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
01
Public money
Federal detention contracting
02
Award / reported extension
70CDCR26FR0000042 · $41.2M
03
Audit findings
See source docket
04
Open recommendations
0 recorded
05
Responsible institutions
Federal — ICE acquisition and congressional appropriations.
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
- $41.2M
- Current award value recorded on the federal award record for 70CDCR26FR0000042. Not a statement that this amount was obligated, outlayed, or paid.
- Obligated at source snapshot
- $41.2M
- Amount obligated as of the snapshot read from the federal award record. Obligation is a commitment, not a payment.
- Outlayed at source snapshot
- $14.3M
- 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
- December 19, 2026
- 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 of performance ends December 19, 2026
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
- December 19, 2026
- Period-of-performance end date on the federal award record for PIID 70CDCR26FR0000042. A period end, not a published decision date.
What could still change
The terms, duration, or existence of the next award covering these two California facilities.
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, its recipient, its stated scope, and its period of performance appear on the federal contract record.
What it does not establish
- Anything about conditions, care, or treatment inside either facility.
- That any renewal decision date has been published.
Linked receipt
70CDCR26FR0000042 · $41.2M
A one-year ICE detention services award covering two California facilities operated by the GEO Group, with roughly a third of the money already paid out at the cited snapshot.
Institutional channels · not windows
Standing official routes. Each establishes only that the channel exists. No request, complaint, hearing, or investigation is implied.
Institutional channel · not a window
ICE FOIA records channel
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.
Open official page Verified August 20, 2026
Unknowns and records worth obtaining
Unresolved questions, not claims. Absence from the record is not evidence of absence.
- Whether a follow-on solicitation has been issued.
- Whether contract modifications, deficiency notices, or inspection reports exist for this award beyond what the federal award record shows. None has been read here; the ICE records channel is published below as a channel, not 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 of performance ends December 19, 2026
Federal
Portable evidence brief
Portable intervention packet
Canonical citation
Detention Receipts. "Leverage: Mesa Verde and Golden State." Last verified August 19, 2026. Primary record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CDCR26FR0000042_7012_70CDCR20D00000008_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 of performance ends December 19, 2026
Period-of-performance end date on the federal award record for PIID 70CDCR26FR0000042. A period end, not a published decision date.
Portable intervention packet
Canonical citation
Detention Receipts. "Leverage: Mesa Verde and Golden State." Last verified August 19, 2026. Primary record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CDCR26FR0000042_7012_70CDCR20D00000008_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.