Migrant services company DocGo, subject of NY probe, seeking $4B federal contract
The migrant services company DocGo is looking to use its multimillion-dollar deal with City Hall to springboard to a massive $4 billion contract with the feds.
CEO Anthony Capone said at a trade conference in Boston last month that DocGo’s $432 million no-bid emergency contract with the Big Apple has given it the “credibility” to go up for the federal arrangement to provide medical services to migrants at the southern border.
“Now that we are one of the largest care providers for asylum seekers in the country,” Capone said at the Canaccord Genuity’s 43rd annual growth conference in August. “It gives us enormous credibility. And we have references from the city who handles the largest amount.”
“Our application is a lot stronger,” Capone said of the for-profit company.
DocGo was awarded an emergency contract by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration in March to arrange food, medical care and migrant housing but recently came under scrutiny after complaints of mistreatment reached the governor’s office last month.
Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered a review of the non-competitive contract, and the state attorney general opened an investigation into the claims.
DocGo, the New York-based COVID testing-turned-migrant-services firm, has signed up roughly 3,000 migrants for New York State Medicaid over the past few months.
The Big Apple is currently caring for 59,400 asylum seekers around the five boroughs.
The federal contract, which DocGo submitted a proposal for a year ago, would be a five-year agreement that would pay out more than $4 billion, according to the company.
If DocGo lands the deal, it would be tasked with providing health care to asylum seekers in the 72 hours after crossing the border.
“As of now, we have not yet submitted our revised proposal and are in the process of evaluating the revised amendment documents,” a spokesperson for the company said of the contract’s current state.
The company has about 73,000 patients overall across the US, Canada and the United Kingdom, according to Capone.
