ICE paid $117.4M for detention in Tacoma without naming the facility until the last modification
Twelve contract actions in seventeen months took this GEO Group task order from $13.6 million to $117.4 million. Eleven of them recorded a city and an area of responsibility. The twelfth, in March 2026, finally wrote a facility into the description.
- Current award
- $117.4M
- Award ID (PIID)
- 70CDCR25FR0000004
- 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 and transportation services from GEO Group in Tacoma, Washington, in October 2024 and added money eleven times. Committed money reached about $117.4 million against about $114.2 million paid out. The funded period ended March 27, 2026. For most of the order's life the record identified the work by city and field office rather than by facility.
Contract scope as written on the federal record: “Detention and transportation services at Tacoma, Washington, in support of the Seattle 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 70CDCR25FR0000004
Task order signed October 24, 2024 under an ICE indefinite-delivery vehicle, with a period running October 28, 2024 to March 27, 2026.
No source attached - 03
Contractor
THE GEO GROUP, INC.
Recipient of record and its own listed parent recipient.
No source attached - 04
Facility
Facility not established by the award record
The order names Tacoma, Washington and the Seattle area of responsibility. Modification P00011, signed March 6, 2026, describes 'a Northwest ICE detention center, Tacoma, WA'. A reviewer treated that phrasing as insufficient to bind the award to a directory row, so no facility is claimed and this award adds nothing to any facility's totals.
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
October 24, 2024
Step 01
Award signed
$13,617,122.00Description as recorded: “NEW TASK ORDER FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT TACOMA, WA FOR SEATTLE AOR”
January 24, 2025
Step 02
Modification P00001 — funding only action
$11,628,517.45Description as recorded: “DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT TACOMA, WA FOR SEATTLE AOR”
March 4, 2025
Step 03
Modification P00002 — funding only action
$6,385,200.00Description as recorded: “THIS MODIFICATION ADDS FUNDING TO THE AWARD FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT A DETENTION FACILITY IN THE SEATTLE AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY”
March 11, 2025
Step 04
Modification P00003 — funding only action
$15,505.85Description as recorded: “THIS MODIFICATION ADDS FUNDING TO THE AWARD FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT A DETENTION FACILITY IN THE SEATTLE AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY”
March 19, 2025
Step 05
Modification P00004 — funding only action
$131,272.47Description as recorded: “THIS MODIFICATION ADDS FUNDING FOR DETENTION SERVICES ABOVE THE GUARANTEED MINIMUM, OVERTIME TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, AND REMOTE POSTS AT A DETENTION FACILITY IN THE SEATTLE ARE…”
April 18, 2025
Step 06
Modification P00005 — funding only action
$6,764,458.00Description as recorded: “THIS MODIFICATION ADDS FUNDING FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, FUEL, OVERTIME TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, AND REMOTE POST AT A DETENTION FACILITY IN THE SEATTLE AREA OF …”
May 6, 2025
Step 07
Modification P00006 — funding only action
$15,045,785.73Description as recorded: “THIS MODIFICATION ADDS FUNDING FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, FUEL, OVERTIME TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, AND REMOTE POST AT A DETENTION FACILITY IN THE SEATTLE AREA OF …”
July 24, 2025
Step 08
Modification P00007 — funding only action
$13,700,853.00Description as recorded: “THIS MODIFICATION ADDS FUNDING FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, FUEL, EXPANSION, REMOTE POST, AND OVERTIME BEDS AT A DETENTION FACILITY IN THE SEATTLE AREA OF RESPONSI…”
September 26, 2025
Step 09
Modification P00008 — exercise an option
$11,894,500.00Description as recorded: “THIS MODIFICATION EXTENDS THE TERM OF THE TASK ORDER AND ADDS FUNDING FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, FUEL, EXPANSION, REMOTE POST, AND OVERTIME BEDS AT A DETENTION F…”
November 18, 2025
Step 10
Modification P00009 — change order
Description as recorded: “THIS MODIFICATION INCORPORATES CHANGES FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, FUEL, EXPANSION, REMOTE POST, AND OVERTIME BEDS AT A DETENTION FACILITY IN THE SEATTLE AREA OF …”
January 16, 2026
Step 11
Modification P00010 — funding only action
$17,132,900.00Description as recorded: “THIS MODIFICATION ADDS FUNDING FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, FUEL, EXPANSION, REMOTE POST, AND OVERTIME BEDS AT A DETENTION FACILITY IN THE SEATTLE AREA OF RESPONSI…”
March 6, 2026
Step 12
Modification P00011 — funding only action
$21,115,235.00Description as recorded: “THIS MODIFICATION ADDS FUNDING FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT A NORTHWEST ICE DETENTION CENTER, TACOMA, WA IN SUPPORT OF SEATTLE AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY.”
March 27, 2026
Step 13
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 28, 2024 to March 27, 2026, with a potential end of March 27, 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) — $117,431,349.50
- Cash outlayed to date, as of 2026-08-20 — $114,169,081.22
Source: USAspending.gov award 70CDCR25FR0000004, 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 (12) — select a modification for its evidence trace
| Action date | Mod | Action | This action | Cumulative obligation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 2024 | DELIVERY ORDER | $13,617,122.00 | $13,617,122.00 | |
| Jan 24, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $11,628,517.45 | $25,245,639.45 | |
| Mar 04, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $6,385,200.00 | $31,630,839.45 | |
| Mar 11, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $15,505.85 | $31,646,345.30 | |
| Mar 19, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $131,272.47 | $31,777,617.77 | |
| Apr 18, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $6,764,458.00 | $38,542,075.77 | |
| May 06, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $15,045,785.73 | $53,587,861.50 | |
| Jul 24, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $13,700,853.00 | $67,288,714.50 | |
| Sep 26, 2025 | EXERCISE AN OPTION | $11,894,500.00 | $79,183,214.50 | |
| Nov 18, 2025 | CHANGE ORDER | $0.00 | $79,183,214.50 | |
| Jan 16, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $17,132,900.00 | $96,316,114.50 | |
| Mar 06, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $21,115,235.00 | $117,431,349.50 |
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 profileThe facility record beside the money record
Evidence boundary
What the evidence establishes
- Twelve dated contract actions run from October 24, 2024 to March 6, 2026.
- Committed money rose from about $13.6 million at signing to about $117.4 million.
- About $114.2 million was outlayed, roughly 97 percent of the obligated total.
- Modification P00004, in March 2025, added funding described as detention services above the guaranteed minimum, overtime transportation and remote posts.
- From July 2025 the descriptions add 'expansion' and 'overtime beds' to the funded scope.
- The final modification, in March 2026, is the first to place the words 'Northwest ICE detention center' in the record.
What it does not establish
- It does not establish which facility performed the work. City and area of responsibility are not facility identity, and this project does not join awards to facilities on proximity.
- It does not establish how many people were held, at what price per person, or what the guaranteed minimum was.
- It does not establish conditions, treatment or any outcome for anyone detained.
- It does not establish that a successor order exists after March 27, 2026.
Human impact linkage
No harm record in this dataset is linked to this award. The Northwest ICE Processing Center dossier records oversight and death evidence for a Tacoma facility, and this project makes no claim that this award paid for it.
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