Government contracts for security services

Government contracts for security services span every level of public buying, from federal task orders down to county and municipal awards. At the federal level the work is concentrated under NAICS 561612 (Security Guards and Patrol Services), and the most active customers are the U.S. Marshals Service, GSA Federal Protective Service, DoD, and the Department of Energy. The same buyer mix repeats year after year, which makes security-services firms a relatively predictable category to bid into once you know where the recurring spend lives.

Across the federal, state, and local sources ContractRadar tracks, there are 148 open security services contracts currently posting across 37 states, with 121 added in the last 30 days. That's a steady national cadence — enough flow that automated alerting outperforms manual portal-checking even if you only chase work in two or three states. Nationally, the most active buyers of this work are DEPT OF THE ARMY (17 open posts) and VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF (8); the remainder splits across federal civilian agencies, DoD components, and state and local departments.

Many guard contracts are SDVOSB set-asides and require a state-issued private-security license in the place of performance. Beyond federal posts, every state runs its own procurement program with separate registration, certification, and bid-board rules — ContractRadar pulls SAM.gov together with state and local feeds so a security-services firm can monitor every market from one inbox instead of logging into a dozen portals each morning. Drill into any state below to see the open security services contracts, top buyers, and posting cadence in that specific market.