$79.8M committed to CoreCivic at Otay Mesa in eight months
CoreCivic's one-year Otay Mesa delivery order opened at $22.2 million in January 2026 and reached $79.8 million by July 30 through four funding-only modifications. The scope recorded in those modifications widens from detention and transportation to include medical services.
- Current award
- $79.8M
- Award ID (PIID)
- 70CDCR26FR0000030
- Last verified
- August 20, 2026
Share with the sourcing attached
Both copied strings carry the attribution language and the canonical link, and label the reported extension figure as reported potential value rather than obligated spending.
The receipt
ICE ordered detention services at the Otay Mesa Detention Center from CoreCivic for one year. Committed money rose from about $22.2 million at signing to about $79.8 million after four funding actions. About $30.8 million had been paid out at the cutoff.
Contract scope as written on the federal record: “Detention and transportation services for the contract detention facility at Otay Mesa, San Diego area of responsibility.”
The chain
- 01
Public money
ICE custody operations appropriations
Detention operations are funded from ICE custody operations accounts, expanded by P.L. 119-21.
No source attached - 02
Award
PIID 70CDCR26FR0000030
Delivery order under an ICE indefinite-delivery vehicle, signed January 23, 2026, period December 20, 2025 to December 19, 2026.
No source attached - 03
Contractor
CORECIVIC, INC.
Recipient of record and its own listed parent recipient.
No source attached - 04
Facility
Otay Mesa Detention Center, San Diego, California
Named in the order description and matched by a reviewer to the Otay Mesa row in the ICE detention workbook.
No source attached - 05
Evidence boundary
Documented in the same detention system. Not presented as a causal attribution. The record below is documented alongside this funding chain, not asserted to be caused by it.
Human cost
Not established by this record
The contract record documents money, scope and dates. It documents no conditions, no treatment and no outcome for anyone held.
No source attached
Contract timeline
January 23, 2026
Step 01
Award signed
$22,222,206.95Description as recorded: “DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR CDF AT OTAY MESA IN SUPPORT SAN DIEGO AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY, CA”
March 19, 2026
Step 02
Modification P00001 — funding only action
$12,128,942.69Description as recorded: “DETENTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MEDICAL SERVICES AT THE OTAY MESA DETENTION FACILITY IN SUPPORT OF THE SAN DIEGO AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY, CA.”
May 20, 2026
Step 03
Modification P00002 — funding only action
$6,120,747.00Description as recorded: “DETENTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MEDICAL SERVICES AT THE OTAY MESA DETENTION FACILITY IN SUPPORT OF THE SAN DIEGO AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY, CA.”
June 26, 2026
Step 04
Modification P00003 — funding only action
$18,879,323.43Description as recorded: “THIS MODIFICATION PROVIDES ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR DETENTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MEDICAL SERVICES AT THE OTAY MESA DETENTION FACILITY IN SUPPORT OF THE SAN DIEGO AREA OF RESPONS…”
July 30, 2026
Step 05
Modification P00004 — funding only action
$20,498,674.88Description as recorded: “THIS MODIFICATION PROVIDES ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR DETENTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MEDICAL SERVICES AT THE OTAY MESA DETENTION FACILITY IN SUPPORT OF THE SAN DIEGO AREA OF RESPONS…”
December 19, 2026
Step 06
Current period of performance ends
End of the currently funded ordering period on the federal record. It is not a closeout date and it does not establish that work stopped.
Period of performance: December 20, 2025 to December 19, 2026, with a potential end of December 19, 2026 if options are exercised.
Award trajectory
How the obligation on this award moved, action by action, against the value ceilings the source reports.
- Cumulative reported obligation
- Current value (exercised options) — $79,849,894.95
- Cash outlayed to date, as of 2026-08-20 — $30,828,362.09
Source: USAspending.gov award 70CDCR26FR0000030, 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
| Action date | Mod | Action | This action | Cumulative obligation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 2026 | DELIVERY ORDER | $22,222,206.95 | $22,222,206.95 | |
| Mar 19, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $12,128,942.69 | $34,351,149.64 | |
| May 20, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $6,120,747.00 | $40,471,896.64 | |
| Jun 26, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $18,879,323.43 | $59,351,220.07 | |
| Jul 30, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $20,498,674.88 | $79,849,894.95 |
Contractor and facilities
Recipient
CoreCivic
CORECIVIC, INC.
Publicly traded private detention operator, recorded as its own parent recipient on the awards in this dataset. Only awards present in this dataset are totaled below; this is not the company's full federal portfolio.
Contractor profileFacilities named in the award
Otay Mesa Detention Center
San Diego, California · Contract detention facility
The facility record beside the money record
Otay Mesa Detention Center
Reviewed identity join · Contract detention facility
- Reported average daily population
- 1,231.5
- Reported average length of stay
- 61.2 days
- Reported guaranteed minimum
- 750
- Latest indexed oversight item
- ICE unannounced compliance inspection, October 31 - November 2, 2023 · November 2, 2023
- Accountability dossier
- Published
- Observed harm records: 2
- Attributed: 0
- Allegations: 0
This award does not establish any condition, finding or harm listed here. Population and length-of-stay figures are fiscal-year aggregates as of the workbook pull, not counts on the award dates. ICE workbook data pull, 2026-07-20.
Evidence boundary
What the evidence establishes
- ICE committed about $79.8 million across five dated actions between January 23 and July 30, 2026.
- The first modification and every one after it is recorded as a funding-only action.
- Modification descriptions from March 2026 onward name detention, transportation and medical services, where the original order description named detention and transportation.
- About $30.8 million had been outlayed at the cutoff.
What it does not establish
- It does not establish that medical services were newly added; the wording of a later description is not a recorded scope change.
- It does not establish the daily population at Otay Mesa or the price per person per day.
- It does not establish who delivers medical care at the facility, or to what standard.
- Current value equals obligation here, so the record shows no unexercised option value for this order.
Human impact linkage
No harm record in this dataset is linked to this award.
How this project categorizes harmOversight and intervention windows
These records live in the central leverage ledger. A date passing never closes one; it flags it for review.
No intervention window is recorded for this receipt in sources currently indexed.
Institutional channels · not windows
Standing official routes. Each establishes only that the channel exists; none implies a request, complaint, hearing, or investigation, and none carries a status or a date.
No official channel is published for this case.
Source docket
Provenance and corrections
- Source snapshot
- August 20, 2026
- Parser state
- automated parse manually reviewed
- Claim status
- verified against source
- Corrections
- None recorded