$22.7M to GEO Group for Delaney Hall detention and transportation
A four-month current period with an option horizon running to February 2027, and zero dollars outlayed at the cited snapshot.
- Current award
- $22.7M
- Award ID (PIID)
- 70CDCR26FR0000050
- 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
The federal government committed about $22.7 million to the GEO Group for detention and transportation at Delaney Hall in Newark. At the snapshot date the record showed no money paid out yet, and the current period of performance had already ended, with options extending as far as February 28, 2027.
Contract scope as written on the federal record: “Detention and transportation services at Delaney Hall Contract Detention Facility, Newark, New Jersey.”
The chain
- 01
Public money
ICE custody operations
Detention and transportation services funded through ICE contracting vehicles.
No source attached - 02
Award
PIID 70CDCR26FR0000050
Current period March 1, 2026 to June 30, 2026; potential end February 28, 2027.
No source attached - 03
Contractor
THE GEO GROUP, INC.
Named recipient on the federal award record.
No source attached - 04
Facility
Delaney Hall, Newark, New Jersey
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 outcome data is contained in a contract record.
No source attached
Contract timeline
March 1, 2026
Step 01
June 30, 2026
Step 02
August 19, 2026
Step 03
Snapshot read
$0.00Outlays recorded as $0.00 at retrieval. A zero outlay is not evidence that no work occurred.
February 28, 2027
Step 04
Period of performance: March 1, 2026 to June 30, 2026, with a potential end of February 28, 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) — $38,610,726.00
- Cash outlayed to date, as of 2026-08-20 — $10,898,900.83
Source: USAspending.gov award 70CDCR26FR0000050, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 2026 | DELIVERY ORDER | $5,670,000.00 | $5,670,000.00 | |
| Jun 10, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $17,010,000.00 | $22,680,000.00 | |
| Jun 22, 2026 | OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION | $0.00 | $22,680,000.00 | |
| Jul 30, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $15,930,726.00 | $38,610,726.00 |
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
Delaney Hall Contract Detention Facility
Newark, New Jersey · Contract detention facility
The facility record beside the money record
Delaney Hall Detention Facility
Reviewed identity join · Contract detention facility
- Reported average daily population
- 811.7
- Reported average length of stay
- 22 days
- Reported guaranteed minimum
- 700
- Latest indexed oversight item
- State civil-rights investigation opened August 7, 2026 · August 7, 2026
- 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
- An award of $22,680,000.00 to THE GEO GROUP, INC. exists with PIID 70CDCR26FR0000050.
- Its scope is detention and transportation services at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey.
- The record showed $0.00 outlayed at the August 19, 2026 retrieval.
- Options could extend performance through February 28, 2027.
What it does not establish
- That no services were delivered — outlay reporting lags invoicing.
- Whether an option has since been exercised after the snapshot date.
- Any claim about conditions or treatment at Delaney Hall.
- Any link between the award and any named individual.
Human impact linkage
No harm record in this dataset is linked to this award. Absence here is not evidence of absence in the world.
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.
Option horizon through February 28, 2027
Decision at issue
Whether each remaining option is exercised, and on what terms.
- Controls it
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- ICE Office of Acquisition Management
- Federal
- Date · Hard date
- February 28, 2027
- Potential period-of-performance end date on the federal award record. A horizon, not a published decision date.
Still unknown
- The date on which each option decision must be made is not established here.
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
- 70CDCR26FR0000050
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-02 17:26 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