Aviation Security Officer - Personal Services Contract
- Client
- Department of Justice
- RFP Number
- CSE-22408
- Posted
- —
- Category
- Computer Supplies, Accessories and other Equipments
- Budget
- Looking for Proposals
- NAICS
- 561612
- Set-aside
- Small Business Set Aside - Total
- Contact
- tim bell
Description
AI GeneratedThe government authority located in Landover, Maryland is seeking a vendor to provide aviation security officer services. The agency requires detention services to ensure the safe and secure custody of prisoners. This custody must be maintained while transporting, guarding, handling, or processing prisoners in or between courthouses, detention facilities, medical facilities, aircraft, airlift sites, and other secured spaces as needed. The agency also requires the securing of federal, seized, or forfeited property. This security work includes entry control, roving patrol, fixed posts, and emergency response. The performance of the work will take place offsite. The agency is setting aside this contract opportunity entirely for small businesses. Bidders must be onshore organizations based in the United States. The contract period will span one year. The agency is looking for proposals and has not disclosed a specific budget. Bidders must submit their responses digitally via email or online. The source document does not specify any additional evaluation criteria or key dates.
Key solicitation details
AI-extracted from ASO MFQ 15M10225QA4700302.pdf. Confirm against the original documents before bidding.
The United States Marshals Service is seeking Aviation Security Officers to provide detention services, prisoner transportation, and property security in support of the Justice Prisoner Air Transportation System. Services include securing prisoners during transit, handling, and processing across courthouses, detention facilities, and airlift sites. Quotations are open to qualified vendors providing personnel meeting law enforcement or corrections background requirements.
- Issued by
- U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE
- Quotations due
- 07/01/2030 10:00 ET
- How to submit
- Digital via Email or Online
- Submission details
- Complete blocks 13 a-f on Standard Form 18 and return to USMS via e-mail within three (3) days.
- Contract term
- Base Period from 10/01/2025 to 09/30/2026 plus four 1-year option periods through 09/30/2030.
- Set-aside
- This RFQ is not a small business set-aside.
- Place of performance
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Kansas City, Missouri; and throughout the 94 USMS Districts.
- Insurance and bonding
- The prime contractor and subcontractors shall be licensed and bonded.
Scope of work
- Safe and secure custody of USMS prisoners while transporting, guarding, handling, or processing them.
- Securing federal, seized, or forfeited property including entry control, roving patrol, fixed posts, and emergency response.
- Transporting prisoners by commercial air when accompanied by USMS operational personnel.
Minimum qualifications
- Actively employed state, local, or reserve law enforcement officers with arrest authority and a minimum of one-year experience.
- Actively employed state, local, or reserve corrections or detention officers with a minimum of one-year experience.
- Must pass a medical examination prior to contract award.
- Must pass a drug test prior to contract award.
- Must pass a Mantoux TB skin test using Purified Protein Derivative.
- Must subject to a Tier 2 Moderate Risk background check / NACI investigation.
- Must be licensed and bonded.
Documents to include with the bid
- Completed Standard Form 18 (blocks 13 a-f)
- Key Personnel Resumes
- DOJ USMS Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality Agreement
Official SAM.gov notice
- Agency
- Department of Justice
- Buying office
- US Marshals Service › Procurement Division, ISB
- Notice type
- Special Notice
- Responses due
- Jul 1, 2030, 10:00 AM ET
- Posted on SAM.gov
- Jan 7, 2026
- NAICS
- 561612 · Security Guards and Patrol Services
- Product/service code
- S206
- Set-aside
- Small Business Set Aside - Total
- Place of performance
- Kansas City, MO
- Contracting contact
- tim bell
timothy.bell@usdoj.gov
Read the official notice description
The United States Marshals Service (USMS) was granted the authority via a class deviation memo for use of personal service contracts on 5 November 2004 from the Department of Justice, The Assistant Attorney General for Administration. The ninety-four (94)D istricts and Justice Prisoner Alien Transportation Systems (JPATS) recruit potential personal service employees through this an open posting on sams.gov (in lieu of previous bulletin board postings. The open recruitment runs the duration of the contract period of performance and recruitement is for INDIVIDUALS who meet the qualifications of the statement of work (SOW). Security companies are not authorized under the class deviation memo. Please do not apply.
Source: SAM.gov contract opportunities data (U.S. federal public data).
Incumbent
No incumbent history found for this requirement. The notice does not cite a current contract, and no earlier award from this buying office matches it.
Market context
Awards in the same category (Security Guards and Patrol Services). This is not this requirement's award history.
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