Detainee Custody, Care, and Transportation
Past Recompete Updated
- Agency
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
- Solicitation expected
- Estimated value
- $50,000,000 to $100,000,000
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Forecast facts
- Incumbent contract
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- HSCEDM15D00015 Federal IDV award held by The GEO Group, Inc. Ordering ended Sep 27, 2025 · Ceiling $770,465,597
- Previous solicitation
- Detention and Transportation Services Award Notice · NWDFCOCO · Posted Sep 28, 2015
- Anticipated award
- Through
- Acquisition strategy
- Follow-on to Existing Contract
- NAICS code
- 561612 Security Guards and Patrol Services
- Place of performance
- Seattle/Tacoma - Seattle Field Office, WA
- Forecast number
- F2026073096
- Points of contact
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- Anita Dickey anita.j.dickey@ice.dhs.gov (509) 910-1319
- Shaun Moss shaun.c.moss@ice.dhs.gov (206) 786-3198
Forecast details come from DHS's Acquisition Planning Forecast System. Agencies' dates and values are estimates.
About this forecast
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seeking a contractor to provide comprehensive detainee custody, care, and transportation services at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport location in SeaTac, Washington. The contractor must furnish facility operations for 1,635 beds (males and females), trained management and supervisory staff, security personnel, uniforms, equipment, vehicles, firearms, ammunition, body restraints, non-lethal devices, food service, and janitorial support operating twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week. The solicitation is estimated to release on February 23, 2026, with an anticipated award date of March 28, 2026, and services must comply with the National Detention Standards (NDS) 2025.
The estimated award value ranges from $50 million to $100 million, with a base period of six months followed by two three-month option periods. Performance will occur at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, 17801 International Blvd, SeaTac, WA 98158. The requirements contact is Shaun Moss at shaun.c.moss@ice.dhs.gov or (206) 786-3198, with alternate contact Anita Dickey at anita.j.dickey@ice.dhs.gov or (509) 910-1319.
This recompete follows the existing Indefinite Delivery Contract HSCEDM15D00015 awarded to The GEO Group, Inc. on September 28, 2015, with a ceiling value of $770,465,597.05 and an ultimate completion date of September 27, 2025. Under the current IDC, GEO has provided detention, transportation, and related services at various facilities in the Tacoma, Washington area through multiple delivery orders, with individual task orders ranging from $5.3 million to over $72 million, all structured as firm fixed price contracts.
Forecast text
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) / U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is responsible for detention, health, welfare, transportation, and deportation of non-citizens in removal proceedings, and those subject to a final order of removal from the United States. The mission of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) is to identify, arrest, and remove non-citizens, who present a danger to national security or are a risk to public safety, as well as those who enter the United States illegally or otherwise undermine the integrity of immigration laws and border control efforts. In implementation its mission, ERO is responsible for carrying out all orders for the securing and departure activities of non-citizens when such becomes necessary and prescribed by law. The ERO Seattle are filed office requires a facility for the detention and transportation of ICE detainees located in the state of Washington in support of the ICE ERO-Seattle Field Office. The contractor shall furnish the facility (1,635 beds: males and females) and services inclusive of a trained and qualified management staff, supervision, manpower, relief officer(s), uniforms, equipment, vehicles, and supplies (which include firearms, ammunition, body restraints, non-lethal devices, boy armor, radios, and cellular telephones), food service officers, and janitorial staff to provide support seven (7) days a week, twenty-four (24) hours per day. ICE is anticipating a six (6) month base period with two (2) three (3) month option periods. Detention services shall be performed in accordance with the most current version of the National Detention Standards (NDS) 2025.
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