About this opportunity
AI summaryThe Department of State seeks market research responses to assess the interest and capability of businesses to provide local guard services at the U.S. Embassy Bujumbura, Burundi under NAICS code 561612. The contractor must protect United States personnel, facilities, and equipment against violent attack, theft, unauthorized access, and damage. The agency invites responses from all business sizes, including small and large businesses. Vendors must submit demonstrations of their capabilities, previous or current guard security contract experience, and a completed Contractor/Vendor Information Sheet by email to Brian Averhart at [email protected] by November 27, 2026, at 12:00 pm EST. Submissions must address host country licensing, compliance with local labor and tax laws, required insurance, and the ability to maintain continuous 24/7 staffing. Vendors must also demonstrate capabilities in providing equipment, vehicles, weapons, communications networks, and required personnel training.
Scope of work
- Prevent unauthorized access, protect life, and maintain order
- Deter criminal and terrorist attacks against employees, dependents, and property
- Furnish guard force equipment such as uniforms, vehicles, and weapons
- Furnish, operate, and maintain a communications radio network
- Maintain a guard staff on a 24/7 basis with immediate backfill capability
- Operate security equipment including GEMS, CAMS, CCTV, x-ray, and explosive detection equipment
- Instruct, provide, and qualify personnel in firearms, x-ray, and radio equipment
- Hire and train personnel, including English language and weapons training
Minimum qualifications
- Current host country licenses and work authorizations including firearms permits in the name of the U.S. business
- Demonstrated capabilities through previous or current guard security contracts under NAICS 561612
- Knowledge of and compliance with host country labor and tax laws
- Access to a firearm training facility
- Capability of dealing with strikes, labor unrest, and organized shift change failures
Documents to include with your response
- Contractor/Vendor Information Sheet
- Capability response demonstrating experience and host country compliance
Key dates
- Responses due
- 27 November 2026 @12:00pm EST
How to submit
- Method
- Instructions
- Return completed Contractor/Vendor Information Sheet and capabilities to Brian Averhart
Contract details
- Place of performance
- U.S. Embassy Bujumbura, Burundi
- Insurance and bonding
- All types of insurance coverage required by host country, such as automobile liability, comprehensive general liability, worker's compensation, and employer's liability
Federal notice details
- Solicitation number
- PR16278937
- Agency
- Department of State
- Buying office
- Acquisitions - AQM Momentum
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Responses due
- Nov 27, 2026, 12:00 PM ET
- Posted on SAM.gov
- Nov 3, 2026
- NAICS
- 561612 · Security Guards and Patrol Services
- Product/service code
- S206
- Set-aside
- No Set aside used
- Place of performance
- BDI
- Contracting contact
- Brian Averhart
averhartb@state.gov
2022575880
Source: SAM.gov. Read the official notice for the complete description and current instructions.
Incumbent and award research
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.
Recent similar awards: Department of State, NAICS 561612
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Top vendors in this category: Department of State, NAICS 561612, since Oct 1, 2024
526 contract awards in this NAICS over the period.
- 1. INTER-CON SECURITY SYSTEMS, INC.$328.4M
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Source: USAspending.gov federal award data (U.S. federal public data). A contract is called the incumbent only when the notice or its documents cite it by number.