El Paso guard services: fourteen actions in thirteen months, and 99.8% of the money out the door
Paragon Professional Services' guard services contract for the El Paso Service Processing Center closed its period on September 29, 2025 with about $71.6 million obligated and about $71.4 million outlayed — the most fully disbursed award in this ledger.
- Current award
- $71.6M
- Award ID (PIID)
- 70CDCR24FR0000040
- 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 bought guard services at the El Paso Service Processing Center from Paragon Professional Services for a year beginning September 30, 2024. Fourteen dated actions brought committed money to about $71.6 million, and almost all of it — about $71.4 million — was actually paid out before the period ended.
Contract scope as written on the federal record: “Guard services, and later detention and transportation support 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 70CDCR24FR0000040
Delivery order signed August 7, 2024, period September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2025.
No source attached - 03
Contractor
PARAGON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LLC
Recipient of record. Guard services are one component of running a facility; the record does not make Paragon the facility operator.
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
August 7, 2024
Step 01
Award signed
$5,263,974.36Description as recorded: “EL PASO SPC GUARD SERVICES CONTRACT”
November 4, 2024
Step 02
Modification P00001 — funding only action
$10,644,643.83Description as recorded: “EL PASO SPC GUARD SERVICES CONTRACT”
December 17, 2024
Step 03
Modification P00002 — other administrative action
Description as recorded: “EL PASO SPC GUARD SERVICES CONTRACT”
January 16, 2025
Step 04
Modification P00003 — funding only action
$10,449,053.76Description as recorded: “EL PASO SPC GUARD SERVICES CONTRACT”
February 28, 2025
Step 05
Modification P00004 — funding only action
$5,244,203.65Description as recorded: “THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDS FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SUPPORT SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER.”
March 21, 2025
Step 06
Modification P00005 — supplemental agreement for work within scope
$1,262,039.98Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDS FOR GUARD SUPPORT AT THE …”
March 28, 2025
Step 07
Modification P00006 — supplemental agreement for work within scope
$2,165,086.14Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDS FOR TRANSPORTATION AND GU…”
April 9, 2025
Step 08
Modification P00007 — funding only action
$5,220,470.00Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDS FOR TRANSPORTATION AND GU…”
April 14, 2025
Step 09
Modification P00008 — funding only action
$1,262,039.98Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDS FOR TRANSPORTATION AND GU…”
May 1, 2025
Step 10
Modification P00009 — funding only action
$13,665,791.49Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDS FOR TRANSPORTATION AND GU…”
May 15, 2025
Step 11
Modification P00010 — funding only action
$1,262,039.98Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDS FOR TRANSPORTATION AND GU…”
May 27, 2025
Step 12
Modification P00011 — funding only action
$1,034,237.73Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDS FOR TRANSPORTATION AND GU…”
September 19, 2025
Step 13
Modification P00012 — funding only action
$9,063,700.00Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDS FOR TRANSPORTATION AND GU…”
September 25, 2025
Step 14
Modification P00013 — funding only action
$5,034,300.00Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AT THE EL PASO SERVICE PROCESSING CENTER. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDS FOR TRANSPORTATION AND GU…”
September 29, 2025
Step 15
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, 2024 to September 29, 2025, with a potential end of September 29, 2025 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) — $71,571,580.90
- Cash outlayed to date, as of 2026-08-20 — $71,399,829.91
Source: USAspending.gov award 70CDCR24FR0000040, 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 (14) — select a modification for its evidence trace
| Action date | Mod | Action | This action | Cumulative obligation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 07, 2024 | DELIVERY ORDER | $5,263,974.36 | $5,263,974.36 | |
| Nov 04, 2024 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $10,644,643.83 | $15,908,618.19 | |
| Dec 17, 2024 | OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION | $0.00 | $15,908,618.19 | |
| Jan 16, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $10,449,053.76 | $26,357,671.95 | |
| Feb 28, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $5,244,203.65 | $31,601,875.60 | |
| Mar 21, 2025 | SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT FOR WORK WITHIN SCOPE | $1,262,039.98 | $32,863,915.58 | |
| Mar 28, 2025 | SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT FOR WORK WITHIN SCOPE | $2,165,086.14 | $35,029,001.72 | |
| Apr 09, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $5,220,470.00 | $40,249,471.72 | |
| Apr 14, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $1,262,039.98 | $41,511,511.70 | |
| May 01, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $13,665,791.49 | $55,177,303.19 | |
| May 15, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $1,262,039.98 | $56,439,343.17 | |
| May 27, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $1,034,237.73 | $57,473,580.90 | |
| Sep 19, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $9,063,700.00 | $66,537,280.90 | |
| Sep 25, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $5,034,300.00 | $71,571,580.90 |
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
- Fourteen dated contract actions are recorded between August 7, 2024 and September 25, 2025.
- Committed money rose from about $5.3 million at signing to about $71.6 million.
- About $71.4 million was outlayed — about 99.8 percent of the obligated total.
- From February 2025 onward the recorded description shifts from 'guard services' to detention and transportation support services at the same center.
What it does not establish
- It does not establish that Paragon operates the El Paso Service Processing Center or employs the staff supervising people held there.
- It does not establish how many guards were placed, on what shifts, or with what training.
- It does not establish whether a successor guard services award exists after September 29, 2025.
- It does not establish any conduct, incident or outcome at the facility.
Human impact linkage
No harm record in this dataset is linked to this award. Guard services scope is not evidence about treatment.
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