Federal obligations in security guards and patrol services (NAICS 561612)

Guard posts as a services NAICS

NAICS 561612 covers establishments that provide security guards and patrol services. On USAspending.gov the code tags contract awards classified as that labor: federal buildings, installations, and other sites where the award’s industry is guard services. It is not a headcount of officers, and it is not a crime statistic. Armed and unarmed posts can share the same six-digit code if that is how the award was classified.

Facilities support services (561210) bundles several operating trades, which may include security as one element of a base-operations contract. Standalone guard contracts belong here. Mixing 561612 with 561210 will double-count or mislabel work depending on how each award was tagged. The $32.1 billion figure is only awards tagged 561612.

Reading $32.1 billion in guard-service obligations

USAspending records obligations on contract awards tagged 561612. Multi-year guard vehicles, option years, and task orders all feed $32,145,610,027.41. This packet has no fiscal-year split and no outlay total. Labor contracts often increment obligations as posts are added.

Outlays are the payroll-like payments to the contractor. Quote $32.1 billion as USAspending contract obligations coded to security guards and patrol services. Do not describe it as a federal law-enforcement budget or as cash already spent.

11,481 awards on a labor-services code

The 11,481 award records fit a services pattern: many posts and sites, many modifications, not a few production lots. The count is not 11,481 guards. One nationwide vehicle can generate hundreds of orders. Open the industry page for the award list.

Guard contracting is labor, invoiced against posts, not a proxy for public safety outcomes. USAspending awards tagged 561612 carry $32,145,610,027.41 in obligations on 11,481 records. Those records rise when a vehicle adds sites or option years. They are not 11,481 officers. Federal employee police are payroll and do not belong in a NAICS industry total. Bundled facilities support tagged 561210 can include security as one element of a performance work statement; those dollars stay on 561210 unless the award itself was tagged 561612. Cite USAspending, obligations, and the guard-and-patrol name. Keep crime statistics out; they are not in this packet. Keep outlays out.

What 561612 excludes

Assistance awards often lack NAICS and are outside this total. Investigation services, armored-car services, and security-system installation, when tagged to other 5616 or construction/IT codes, sit elsewhere. Computer systems design is not a guard post. Those neighboring tables are separate.

SpendingVault aggregates USAspending.gov contract data. The $32,145,610,027.41 total and the 11,481 award count can change after corrections. The live industry page is the table of record.

Using the security-guard industry page

Open the SECURITY GUARDS AND PATROL SERVICES industry page for the award list under the headline. Compare 561612 with 561210 on All industries without combining the totals. Cite obligations, not outlays, and keep the 11,481 award count with the dollar figure.

Citing guard labor without base-ops or payroll

Cite $32,145,610,027.41 in USAspending obligations on 11,481 awards tagged NAICS 561612, security guards and patrol services. Distinguish it from bundled facilities support and from federal employee police payroll, neither of which is this table.

The 11,481 award count is posts and modifications, not a headcount of guards. Labor contracts increment as sites are added; that still is not an outlay total. Assistance is generally excluded. If guard work was buried inside a 561210 bundle, it will not appear in this $32.1 billion figure.

Guard and patrol services are a labor NAICS. The $32,145,610,027.41 total is awards tagged 561612. The 11,481 records are posts, sites, and modifications, not a headcount of officers. Armed and unarmed work can share the code. Federal police payroll cannot: payroll is not a contract award.

Bundled facilities support (561210) is the main mix-up. If security is one CLIN inside a base-ops bundle tagged 561210, those dollars are not here. If the government bought a standalone guard contract tagged 561612, they are here. Cite USAspending obligations on 11,481 awards coded 561612. Do not describe the figure as a crime rate or as cash already paid.

Questions

How much is obligated on NAICS 561612 security guards?

USAspending.gov contract awards coded NAICS 561612 show $32,145,610,027.41 in obligations across 11,481 awards. That total is obligations, not outlays, for security guards and patrol services. USAspending.gov records the amount as contract obligations, not outlays, on awards tagged NAICS 561612.

Is this the same as facilities support services?

No. Facilities support (NAICS 561210) is bundled base operations. 561612 is guard and patrol services. The $32,145,610,027.41 figure is 561612 only. The packet total is $32,145,610,027.41 across 11,481 awards; assistance awards often have no NAICS and stay outside the industry rollup.

Do 11,481 awards mean 11,481 guards?

No. The 11,481 figure counts contract award records, including task orders and modifications. It is not a headcount of security personnel. Treat the 11,481 figure as an award-record count, including orders and modifications, not as a physical inventory of products or sites.

Does this include federal police or military police payroll?

This table is contract awards tagged 561612, totaling $32,145,610,027.41. Federal employee payroll is not a contract award and is not in this NAICS rollup. This guide does not add a fiscal-year split. Quote the live industry page if you need the current award list under SECURITY GUARDS AND PATROL SERVICES.