El Paso's detention order jumped from $10.7M to $55.2M in a single March action
Paragon Professional Services holds detention and transportation services at the El Paso Service Processing Center. Modification P00002, dated March 4, 2026, added about $44.5 million — more than four times the money committed at signing.
- Current award
- $64.3M
- Award ID (PIID)
- 70CDCR25FR0000112
- 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 the El Paso Service Processing Center from Paragon. Committed money rose from about $10.7 million at signing to about $64.3 million across six actions. About $41.5 million had been paid out.
Contract scope as written on the federal record: “Detention and transportation services at the El Paso Service Processing Center.”
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 70CDCR25FR0000112
Delivery order under ICE vehicle 70CDCR22D00000012, signed September 28, 2025, period September 30, 2025 to September 29, 2026.
No source attached - 03
Contractor
PARAGON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LLC
Recipient of record and its own listed parent recipient. This project also carries Paragon's separate El Paso guard services order.
No source attached - 04
Facility
El Paso Service Processing Center, El Paso, Texas
Named in the order description and matched by a reviewer to the El Paso Service Processing Center row in the ICE detention workbook.
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
September 28, 2025
Step 01
Award signed
$10,735,800.00Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ISSUE A NEW TASK ORDER AND ADD FUND…”
January 13, 2026
Step 02
Modification P00001 — other administrative action
Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO UPDATE THE CONTRACTING OFFICERS REP…”
March 4, 2026
Step 03
Modification P00002 — funding only action
$44,485,781.71Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDING FOR THESE SERVICES.”
April 6, 2026
Step 04
Modification P00003 — funding only action
$1,909,600.00Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDING FOR THESE SERVICES.”
May 12, 2026
Step 05
Modification P00004 — funding only action
$5,216,234.00Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDING FOR THESE SERVICES.”
August 11, 2026
Step 06
Modification P00005 — funding only action
$1,949,000.00Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDING FOR THESE SERVICES.”
September 29, 2026
Step 07
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: September 30, 2025 to September 29, 2026, with a potential end of September 29, 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) — $64,296,415.71
- Cash outlayed to date, as of 2026-08-20 — $41,502,846.04
Source: USAspending.gov award 70CDCR25FR0000112, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 2025 | DELIVERY ORDER | $10,735,800.00 | $10,735,800.00 | |
| Jan 13, 2026 | OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION | $0.00 | $10,735,800.00 | |
| Mar 04, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $44,485,781.71 | $55,221,581.71 | |
| Apr 06, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $1,909,600.00 | $57,131,181.71 | |
| May 12, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $5,216,234.00 | $62,347,415.71 | |
| Aug 11, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $1,949,000.00 | $64,296,415.71 |
Contractor and facilities
Recipient
Paragon Professional Services
PARAGON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LLC
Held the guard services award for the El Paso Service Processing Center through September 2025. Guard services are one component of facility operation; the award record does not make Paragon the operator.
Contractor profileFacilities named in the award
El Paso Service Processing Center
El Paso, Texas · Service processing center
The facility record beside the money record
El Paso Service Processing Center
Reviewed identity join · ICE service processing center
- Reported average daily population
- 751.6
- Reported average length of stay
- 56 days
- Reported guaranteed minimum
- 450
- Latest indexed oversight item
- ICE inspection recorded for February 11-13, 2025 · February 13, 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
- Six dated actions run from September 28, 2025 to August 11, 2026.
- Committed money rose from about $10.7 million to about $64.3 million; about $41.5 million had been outlayed at the cutoff.
- The March 4, 2026 funding-only action carries about $44.5 million, the largest single action on the order.
- The funded period runs to September 29, 2026 and the record shows no option period beyond it.
What it does not establish
- It does not establish that Paragon operates the El Paso Service Processing Center; holding detention and transportation orders is not the operator role.
- It does not establish the population held at El Paso on any date.
- The record's place of performance is Anchorage, Alaska — the recipient's own location — while the scope names El Paso. Place of performance is not facility identity here.
- It does not establish conditions or care at the facility.
Human impact linkage
No harm record in this dataset is linked to this award. The El Paso Service Processing Center carries a separate accountability dossier in this project, built from inspection and legal records this contract record neither contains nor speaks to.
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