Akima Global Services, LLC

Akima Global Services, LLC, an Alaskan Native Corporation–owned minority business, provides detention management, facility security, food services, and administrative support to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), competing predominantly in full-and-open competition without set-aside designations on large ICE detention contracts. A subsidiary of parent company Akima LLC, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, Akima Global Services operates under the Native American Owned, American Indian Owned, and tribally owned certifications characteristic of its Alaskan Native Corporation status, and self-certifies as a small disadvantaged business.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency–driven. Immigration and Customs Enforcement accounts for 41 awards with a combined potential value of $2.56 billion—89% of the vendor's total awards-based potential value of $2.85 billion across 162 recent awards. The Department of Commerce's U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is the distant second customer at 98 awards and $161.3 million, followed by the Department of the Army with a scattering of installation and training support work. Top-customers-by-count and top-customers-by-potential-value rankings diverge sharply: USPTO dominates award volume (60% of all awards) but represents only 5.6% of total potential value, while ICE's 25% of award volume anchors 89.8% of the total-value pool. This split signals that Akima Global Services delivers low-dollar administrative services to USPTO at scale while capturing multi-hundred-million-dollar detention-center operations contracts with ICE.

Akima's ICE detention portfolio centers on three core facilities: Florence Service Processing Center in Arizona, Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia, New York, and detention operations in Puerto Rico, with additional work under a May 2025 multiple-award Emergency Detention and Related Services Strategic Sourcing Vehicle. Named delivery orders include a $42.2 million Option Year 5 continuation at Florence awarded September 2025 (ceiling value, covering guard, food, and transportation services through October 2026); a $27.85 million Competitive 8(a) detention support task at Buffalo with an ultimate completion date of November 2025 (invoiced $14.9 million against 156 FTEs in FY2025); a $28.9 million single-award Puerto Rico detention management IDIQ running through June 2027; and a $4.46 million delivery order for Florence services issued September 2026. The vendor also holds a $57 million multiple-award ICE Emergency Detention and Related Services IDV awarded May 2025, with a minimum obligation of $250 and bed-day rates ranging $150 to $280 per detainee. USPTO work consists of dozens of small labor-hour delivery orders for administrative support to patent and trademark processing operations, regional offices, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, each typically valued under $2 million and closed out or de-obligated by mid-2023 through mid-2024.

SCI-reportable invoiced revenue declined year over year from $101.5 million in FY2022 across 847 FTEs to $70.6 million in FY2025 across 640 FTEs—a 30% revenue decline and 25% FTE reduction over three years, driven by the completion and wind-down of large USPTO administrative-support contracts. The Buffalo detention facility contract, which invoiced $20.2 million across 172 FTEs in FY2024, fell to $13.2 million across 79.4 FTEs in FY2025 as the contract approached closeout in November 2025. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime work run a median of $42.77/hr, ranging from a 10th percentile of $22.95/hr to a 90th percentile of $66.35/hr, reflecting a labor mix dominated by detention officers and administrative staff without security clearances. The vendor's GSA Federal Supply Schedule lists four occupational categories—Guard I, Guard II, Detention Officer, and Transportation Officer—at hourly rates from $68.32 to $73.42, all at high school equivalent education level. Akima Global Services self-performs the majority of its work; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for approximately 10% of total contractor hours, with 12 named subs engaged.

Four awards carrying a combined potential value of $49.1 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and present recompete exposure: the Buffalo detention contract (November 2025), the Florence fiscal 2025 delivery order (October 2026), and two additional detention-related orders. Activity has contracted sharply: thirteen awards in 2022, thirteen in 2023, three in 2024, seven in 2025, and two in 2026, indicating a steep decline in new award volume after the bulk of USPTO administrative-support work completed.

Parent vehicle positions center on ICE indefinite-delivery contracts: the HSCEDM14D00002 detention management IDV with ten task orders and $545.8 million combined potential value; the HSCEDM15D00002 detention management IDV with eleven task orders and $288.9 million combined potential value; and the 70CDCR20D00000004 detention services IDV with seven task orders and $209.6 million combined potential value. Non-ICE vehicles include a USPTO office-administrative-services IDIQ (DOC50PAPT1200062) with 63 task orders and $47.5 million combined value and an older USPTO bridge contract (1333BJ19D00150001) with 24 task orders and $38.1 million. On the GSA side, Akima Global Services holds a Federal Supply Schedule contract for protective service occupations (Multiple Award Schedule, SIN 561612) running through January 2027, valued at $700,000, providing guard and detention officer positions nationwide.

Akima Global Services operates with two named subsidiaries: Akima Security Corporation and Akima Global Security, LLC, both carrying identical Alaskan Native Corporation ownership and small disadvantaged business certifications. The vendor subcontracts as a named sub to Acquisition Logistics LLC on two ICE detention operations—a Camp East Montana Temporary Detention Center task in El Paso, Texas (October 2025) and an ICE detention center task at Fort Bliss, Texas (July 2025)—suggesting secondary roles supporting larger prime contractors on border detention surge work. The ICE detention portfolio represents the vendor's core federal revenue driver; USPTO administrative support, while historically producing high award volume, has contracted materially as legacy task orders closed and were not substantially replaced.

Akima Global Services (AGS) provides the people, equipment, and processes that safeguard federal buildings, military bases, and detention centers. We take pride in our ability to safeguard and support our customers' complex missions. Our expertise includes access control, armed and unarmed guards, detention management and secure transportation, vulnerability assessments, and electronic security systems installation and maintenance.