GEO's Aurora order closed its funded period at $66.9M, two-thirds paid out
The Denver Contract Detention Facility order to the GEO Group ran from October 2025 to August 15, 2026. Two funding actions in early 2026 multiplied the committed amount elevenfold.
- Current award
- $66.9M
- Award ID (PIID)
- 70CDCR25FR0000111
- 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, transportation and medical services at the Aurora facility from the GEO Group. The order opened at about $6.1 million in September 2025 and reached about $66.9 million after two funding actions in February and April 2026. About $42.3 million had been paid out. The funded period ended August 15, 2026.
Contract scope as written on the federal record: “Detention, transportation and medical services at the Aurora, Colorado contract detention facility.”
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 70CDCR25FR0000111
Delivery order signed September 24, 2025, funded period October 16, 2025 to August 15, 2026.
No source attached - 03
Contractor
THE GEO GROUP, INC.
Recipient of record on every action in the order.
No source attached - 04
Facility
Denver Contract Detention Facility, Aurora, Colorado
The order names the Aurora, Colorado contract detention facility; the ICE workbook records that facility as the Denver Contract Detention Facility at an Aurora address, and a reviewer confirmed the match.
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
September 24, 2025
Step 01
Award signed
$6,103,000.00Description as recorded: “THIS TASK ORDER PROVIDES DETENTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MEDICAL SERVICES AT THE AURORA, CO CONTRACT DETENTION FACILITY.”
December 2, 2025
Step 02
Modification P00001 — other administrative action
Description as recorded: “THIS TASK ORDER PROVIDES DETENTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MEDICAL SERVICES AT THE AURORA, CO CONTRACT DETENTION FACILITY. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO MAKE ADMINISTRATIV…”
February 11, 2026
Step 03
Modification P00002 — funding only action
$43,875,696.47Description as recorded: “THIS TASK ORDER PROVIDES DETENTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MEDICAL SERVICES AT THE AURORA, CO CONTRACT DETENTION FACILITY. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO PROVIDE INCREMENTA…”
April 1, 2026
Step 04
Modification P00003 — funding only action
$16,914,698.53Description as recorded: “THIS TASK ORDER PROVIDES DETENTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MEDICAL SERVICES AT THE AURORA, CO CONTRACT DETENTION FACILITY. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO PROVIDE INCREMENTA…”
August 15, 2026
Step 05
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: October 16, 2025 to August 15, 2026, with a potential end of August 15, 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) — $66,893,395.00
- Cash outlayed to date, as of 2026-08-20 — $42,309,996.70
Source: USAspending.gov award 70CDCR25FR0000111, 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 (4) — select a modification for its evidence trace
| Action date | Mod | Action | This action | Cumulative obligation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 2025 | DELIVERY ORDER | $6,103,000.00 | $6,103,000.00 | |
| Dec 02, 2025 | OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION | $0.00 | $6,103,000.00 | |
| Feb 11, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $43,875,696.47 | $49,978,696.47 | |
| Apr 01, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $16,914,698.53 | $66,893,395.00 |
Contractor and facilities
Recipient
GEO Group
THE GEO GROUP, INC.
Publicly traded private detention operator. Only the award records currently indexed here are totaled below; this is not the company's full federal portfolio.
Contractor profileFacilities named in the award
Denver Contract Detention Facility
Aurora, Colorado · Contract detention facility
The facility record beside the money record
Denver Contract Detention Facility
Reviewed identity join · Contract detention facility
- Reported average daily population
- 1,206.5
- Reported average length of stay
- 50.7 days
- Reported guaranteed minimum
- 600
- Latest indexed oversight item
- ICE unannounced compliance inspection, February 13-15, 2024 · February 15, 2024
- Accountability dossier
- Published
- Observed harm records: 1
- 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
- The order opened at about $6.1 million and closed its funded period at about $66.9 million.
- One December 2025 action is recorded as an administrative action carrying no obligation.
- About $42.3 million had been outlayed at the cutoff — about 63 cents of every committed dollar, the highest ratio among the 2026 detention orders in this ledger.
- The order description names medical services alongside detention and transportation.
What it does not establish
- It does not establish that the facility stopped operating when the funded period ended on August 15, 2026.
- It does not establish who provides clinical care at the facility or under what license.
- It does not establish the population held, or the relationship between the funding increases and any population change.
- It does not establish whether a successor order exists; none appears in the records this project has read.
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