$106.5M award to GEO Group for Big Horn Detention Facility in Colorado
The largest receipt in this dataset by current award value, with a far smaller amount obligated at the cited transaction snapshot.
- Current award
- $106.5M
- Award ID (PIID)
- 70CDCR26FR0000101
- Last verified
- August 19, 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
This award sets a ceiling of about $106.5 million over one year for detention services in Hudson, Colorado. About $15.7 million was obligated at the cited transaction snapshot. The ceiling is what could be spent; the obligation is what was committed at that point.
Contract scope as written on the federal record: “Detention and detention-related services at Big Horn Detention Facility in Hudson, Colorado.”
The chain
- 01
Public money
Expanded detention capacity funding
CBO identified $45 billion for ICE detention capacity under section 70101 of the 2025 reconciliation law. This award is consistent in timing with that expansion; timing alone does not prove the funding source.
No source attached - 02
Award
PIID 70CDCR26FR0000101
Period July 9, 2026 to July 8, 2027.
No source attached - 03
Contractor
THE GEO GROUP, INC.
Named recipient on the federal award record.
No source attached - 04
Facility
Big Horn Detention Facility, Hudson, Colorado
Named in the award description.
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
No conditions or outcome evidence is attached to this award in this dataset.
No source attached
Contract timeline
July 9, 2026
Step 01
August 19, 2026
Step 02
Snapshot read
$106,502,322.60Current and potential award value recorded at $106,502,322.60.
July 8, 2027
Step 03
Period of performance: July 9, 2026 to July 8, 2027, with a potential end of July 8, 2027 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) — $106,502,322.60
Source: USAspending.gov award 70CDCR26FR0000101, 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 (1) — select a modification for its evidence trace
| Action date | Mod | Action | This action | Cumulative obligation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2026 | DELIVERY ORDER | $15,654,000.00 | $15,654,000.00 |
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
Big Horn Facility
Hudson, Colorado · Activating federal immigration processing center
The facility record beside the money record
Big Horn Facility
Reviewed identity join · Not established
- Reported average daily population
- Not established
- Reported average length of stay
- Not established
- Reported guaranteed minimum
- Not established
- Latest indexed oversight item
- None indexed
- Accountability dossier
- Published, partial coverage
- Observed harm records: 0
- 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
- A current and potential award value of $106,502,322.60 to THE GEO GROUP, INC. under PIID 70CDCR26FR0000101.
- An obligation of $15,654,000.00 at the cited transaction snapshot.
- Scope: detention and detention-related services at Big Horn Detention Facility, Hudson, Colorado.
- Period of performance July 9, 2026 to July 8, 2027.
What it does not establish
- That $106.5 million will actually be spent — a ceiling is not a payment.
- Which appropriation account funds each obligation.
- That proximity to the 2025 appropriation proves a causal or improper connection.
- Any statement about conditions, capacity in use, or treatment at the facility.
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.
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.
Still unknown
- No source indexed here establishes a date by which ICE must decide.
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
How current this record is
Automated source retrieval
- Award record watched
- 70CDCR26FR0000101
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-02 17:27 UTC
- Last result
- ok
- Published data current through
- 2026-08-20
Retrieval runs on a schedule. Detected changes are queued for human review, not published automatically. A successful check means the source responded and validated; it does not mean the upstream record changed. Every figure on this page was verified against the cited source by a person. Source health
Provenance and corrections
- Source snapshot
- August 19, 2026
- Parser state
- manual review
- Claim status
- verified against source
- Corrections
- None recorded