Tacoma's detention order now names the facility, and stands at $63.2 million
This project withheld a facility match on the earlier Tacoma order, which named only a city and an area of responsibility. The successor order names a Northwest ICE detention center at Tacoma, and $63.2 million has been committed to it since March 2026.
- Current award
- $63.2M
- Award ID (PIID)
- 70CDCR26FR0000055
- 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 at Tacoma from the GEO Group. Committed money rose from about $8.9 million to about $63.2 million across three actions between May and August 2026. About $11.0 million had been paid out. The funded period ends October 27, 2026.
Contract scope as written on the federal record: “Detention and transportation services at a Northwest ICE detention center, 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 70CDCR26FR0000055
Delivery order under ICE vehicle 70CDCR26D00000026, signed May 8, 2026, period March 28, 2026 to October 27, 2026.
No source attached - 03
Contractor
THE GEO GROUP, INC.
Recipient of record, with GEO Group also listed as the parent recipient.
No source attached - 04
Facility
Northwest ICE Processing Center, Tacoma, Washington
The order names a Northwest ICE detention center at Tacoma; the ICE workbook extract carries one Tacoma facility, and a reviewer matched the two on facility name and city.
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
May 8, 2026
Step 01
Award signed
$8,898,848.14Description as recorded: “TASK ORDER FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT A NORTHWEST ICE DETENTION CENTER, TACOMA, WA IN SUPPORT OF SEATTLE AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY.”
May 21, 2026
Step 02
Modification P00001 — other administrative action
$30,143,898.85Description as recorded: “TASK ORDER FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT A NORTHWEST ICE DETENTION CENTER, TACOMA, WA IN SUPPORT OF SEATTLE AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY.”
August 5, 2026
Step 03
Modification P00002 — funding only action
$24,194,092.00Description as recorded: “ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT A NORTHWEST ICE DETENTION CENTER, TACOMA, WA IN SUPPORT OF SEATTLE AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY.”
October 27, 2026
Step 04
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: March 28, 2026 to October 27, 2026, with a potential end of October 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) — $63,236,838.99
- Cash outlayed to date, as of 2026-08-20 — $10,981,095.68
Source: USAspending.gov award 70CDCR26FR0000055, 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 (3) — select a modification for its evidence trace
| Action date | Mod | Action | This action | Cumulative obligation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 08, 2026 | DELIVERY ORDER | $8,898,848.14 | $8,898,848.14 | |
| May 21, 2026 | OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION | $30,143,898.85 | $39,042,746.99 | |
| Aug 05, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $24,194,092.00 | $63,236,838.99 |
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
Northwest ICE Processing Center
Tacoma, Washington · Contract detention facility
The facility record beside the money record
Northwest ICE Processing Center
Reviewed identity join · Contract detention facility
- Reported average daily population
- 1,173.9
- Reported average length of stay
- 57.5 days
- Reported guaranteed minimum
- 1,653
- Latest indexed oversight item
- ICE compliance inspection, January 28-30, 2025 · January 28, 2025
- 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
- Three dated actions run from May 8, 2026 to August 5, 2026, against a period that began March 28, 2026.
- Committed money rose from about $8.9 million to about $63.2 million; about $11.0 million had been outlayed at the cutoff.
- Modification P00001, dated May 21, 2026, is recorded as an other administrative action and carries about $30.1 million.
- The funded period ends October 27, 2026, and the record shows no option period beyond it.
What it does not establish
- It does not establish that the GEO Group operates the Northwest ICE Processing Center; the award records detention and transportation services.
- It does not establish why an administrative action carries about $30.1 million, or what it administered.
- It does not establish the population held at Tacoma on any date, or the per-day price.
- It does not establish what follows the recorded period end on October 27, 2026.
Human impact linkage
No harm record in this dataset is linked to this award. The Northwest ICE Processing Center carries a separate accountability dossier in this project, built from records this contract record does not contain.
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