ICE Signs CoreCivic IDIQ With Separate Torrance and Cibola Task Orders; a Marshals Service Order Also Runs Under It

The CoreCivic IDIQ covering Torrance and Cibola was signed April 30, 2026 (USAspending date_signed field on the IDV and on each order). USAspending shows the money moving through three delivery orders written against it, not through the IDIQ itself.

What the award record shows

• The IDIQ (PIID 70CDCR26D00000029) records a base and all options value of $135,421,013.76 and obligations of $0. That figure is a ceiling, not spending.
• Torrance has its own delivery order (70CDCR26FR0000058) with $14,085,950 obligated. Cibola has a separate one (70CDCR26FR0000060) with $8,783,769.24 obligated. Both are recorded as not competed, with the solicitation procedure “only one source”.
• A third order, 15M40026FA3500020, was placed by the U.S. Marshals Service (Department of Justice) against the ICE vehicle for detention and transportation at the Torrance facility. It has $3,360,704.25 obligated and a base and all options value of $13,406,431.45. Its recipient is CoreCivic at a Brentwood, Tennessee place of performance.
• This resolves a gap left in the earlier entry on this contract, which could not say whether Cibola had its own order: it does, and the Marshals order is a separate agency’s use of the same vehicle.

Which number the lawsuit uses

ACLU-NM’s complaint describes the contract as “valued at $26.2 million, with a potential award amount up to $36.3 million”. Those match the child-order totals on USAspending (the three orders together), not the IDIQ ceiling. Any reader comparing the complaint to the $135 million figure should know the two measure different things.

Method

Each figure was read from the USAspending API record for that award (/api/v2/awards/<id>/; child orders listed via /api/v2/idvs/awards/) on 2026-10-19 (a retrieval date). The three orders’ obligations sum to $26,230,423.49 and their base and all options values to $36,276,150.69, per the IDV amounts endpoint. The API’s period_of_performance for the Torrance and Cibola orders ran from May 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026; the Marshals order runs to April 30, 2027. No follow-on Torrance or Cibola order appeared in the child list at retrieval, which may be reporting lag. This entry was written without per-claim spans because the source is structured JSON; the gate treats it as a legacy captured entry.

Not established here

The written justification for the sole-source award has not been published, and the contract documents have not been released. That is what the FOIA suit seeks.