$41.2M to GEO Group for detention services at Mesa Verde and Golden State
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.
- Current award
- $41.2M
- Award ID (PIID)
- 70CDCR26FR0000042
- 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 agreed to pay the GEO Group up to about $41.2 million to run detention operations at two California sites for one year. About $14.3 million had actually been paid out as of the snapshot date. The rest is committed but not yet disbursed.
Contract scope as written on the federal record: “Detention services at Mesa Verde and Golden State ICE detention facilities.”
The chain
- 01
Public money
ICE detention appropriations
Detention operations are funded from ICE custody operations accounts, expanded by P.L. 119-21.
No source attached - 02
Award
PIID 70CDCR26FR0000042
Task order under an ICE indefinite-delivery vehicle, period beginning December 20, 2025.
No source attached - 03
Contractor
THE GEO GROUP, INC.
Named recipient on the federal award record.
No source attached - 04
Facility
Mesa Verde and Golden State, California
Both facilities are 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
The contract record documents money and scope. It does not document conditions or outcomes.
No source attached
Contract timeline
July 4, 2025
Step 01
Appropriation enacted
P.L. 119-21 signed, including detention capacity funding identified by CBO.
December 20, 2025
Step 02
August 19, 2026
Step 03
December 19, 2026
Step 04
Period of performance: December 20, 2025 to December 19, 2026.
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) — $76,850,838.39
- Cash outlayed to date, as of 2026-08-20 — $24,483,452.50
Source: USAspending.gov award 70CDCR26FR0000042, 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 (6) — select a modification for its evidence trace
| Action date | Mod | Action | This action | Cumulative obligation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 03, 2026 | DELIVERY ORDER | $16,762,626.49 | $16,762,626.49 | |
| Mar 06, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $10,073,576.00 | $26,836,202.49 | |
| Apr 03, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $5,869,612.00 | $32,705,814.49 | |
| May 22, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $3,563,193.60 | $36,269,008.09 | |
| Jun 26, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $4,898,964.63 | $41,167,972.72 | |
| Jul 24, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $35,682,865.67 | $76,850,838.39 |
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
Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center
Bakersfield, California · Contract detention facility
Golden State Annex
McFarland, California · Contract detention facility
The facility record beside the money record
Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center
Reviewed identity join · Contract detention facility
- Reported average daily population
- 343.7
- Reported average length of stay
- 54.2 days
- Reported guaranteed minimum
- 320
- Latest indexed oversight item
- DHS OIG limited-scope unannounced inspection published November 3, 2023 · November 3, 2023
- Accountability dossier
- Published
- 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.
Golden State Annex
Reviewed identity join · Contract detention facility
- Reported average daily population
- 596.8
- Reported average length of stay
- 69.1 days
- Reported guaranteed minimum
- 560
- Latest indexed oversight item
- Office of Detention Oversight inspection ended January 30, 2025, marked Pass · January 30, 2025
- 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 federal award of $41,167,972.72 to THE GEO GROUP, INC. exists with PIID 70CDCR26FR0000042.
- The award's stated scope is detention services at Mesa Verde and Golden State.
- $14,347,498.78 had been outlayed as recorded on August 19, 2026.
- The current period of performance runs December 20, 2025 to December 19, 2026.
What it does not establish
- Anything about conditions, care, or treatment inside either facility.
- That the money was misused, overbilled, or improperly awarded.
- Any causal link between this award and any individual harm.
- The company's total federal revenue — only this award is represented here.
Human impact linkage
No harm record in this dataset is linked to this award. That is a statement about this dataset, not about what has or has not happened.
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 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.
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.
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
Source docket
How current this record is
Automated source retrieval
- Award record watched
- 70CDCR26FR0000042
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-02 17:25 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