Built for scrutiny

Public-sector work is judged twice — once on the ground and again on paper. Every post we staff runs on written post orders, documented activity reporting, and personnel credentialed to the standard the contract requires. When a contracting officer, an inspector general or opposing counsel asks how a shift was run, the answer already exists in writing.

Our teams are built and led by former military and law enforcement professionals who have run these missions for real. You retain a single accountable command and one point of contact for the entire engagement.

What we deliver

Posts we staff

• Fixed guard posts
• Access control & screening
• Gatehouse operations
• Front desk / concierge
• Mobile & roving patrol
• Alarm response
• Fire watch & standby
• Overnight & weekend cover
• Emergency surge coverage
• Termination standby
• Construction site security
• Special event staffing

The threat picture, specifically

Government and defense sites separate cleanly into two problems that get confused constantly. Public-facing buildings — counters, courts, licensing offices, service centres — carry the risks of any place where people arrive angry and unscreened, plus the ones that come from being a symbol. Controlled and cleared facilities carry the opposite profile: almost everyone inside belongs there, the population is small and vetted, and the real exposure is the badge that was never deactivated, the closed area left unsecured at the end of a Friday, the uncleared contractor who was escorted for the first hour and then was not, and the person with legitimate access and a reason to misuse it.

Arizona has a dense defense and federal footprint — installations, ranges, primes, and a long supply chain of cleared subcontractors and manufacturers spread across the Phoenix and Tucson metros and the southern corridor. That supply chain is where most of the accessible risk sits, because a small cleared facility has the same obligations as a large one and rarely the same staff to meet them.

Two more things shape the work here. Public buildings attract demonstration, and a demonstration is a First Amendment activity to be managed rather than a threat to be suppressed — officers who do not understand that distinction create the incident. And an unattended item at a federal facility is a procedure, not a judgement call.

What a government or defense post actually covers

Post orders are written to the facility’s security level and its own standing instructions, not to a template. Before an officer stands a post we walk the site with the facility security officer or building manager and record what is true: which entrances are controlled and how, what the badge and visitor process actually is at 7am versus 7pm, where closed areas sit and who checks them, what the escort ratio is, what the duress procedure is, and who gets called first.

A typical deployment covers access control at entry points including badge and credential verification; visitor processing, verification and escort; screening where the facility requires it and to the standard the facility sets; roving interior and perimeter patrol on varied timings; end-of-day security checks including closed-area and container verification where that is part of the site’s procedure; alarm response and coordination with the responding agency; and incident documentation written to survive review.

Escort discipline is the part most often written loosely and most often audited. We write it tightly: who may escort, what ratio, what the escort may and may not permit, and what gets logged. Uncleared contractor supervision is the same discipline applied to a longer clock.

Clearances, contracting and the paperwork that decides eligibility

Honeybadger Solutions is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. CAGE code 9FNE2, UEI/DUNS 118765731, active SAM registration, with primary NAICS including 561612 Security Guards and Patrol Services and 561611 Investigation Services. In Arizona the firm holds Security Guard Agency licence 1759798 and Private Investigations Agency licence 1759795 under A.R.S. Title 32, Chapter 26.

Where a contract is performed under the National Industrial Security Program — 32 CFR Part 117, administered by DCSA — the facility’s FSO owns the programme and our people work inside it. Officers requiring access to classified information are processed for eligibility through the government’s own system at the sponsoring facility’s direction; nobody is presented as cleared who is not, and we will say so early rather than late. Where the requirement is unescorted access without eligibility for classified information, that is a different and usually faster path, and the difference is worth establishing in the first conversation.

Federal guard contracts almost always carry a Service Contract Act wage determination. That sets the floor for wages and fringe on the contract, and it is the single biggest driver of what a compliant bid looks like. A price that undercuts the applicable wage determination is not a better deal; it is a compliance problem waiting to become yours. We bid to the determination and show the build-up. HSPD-12 and PIV credentialing, E-Verify, and the facility’s own suitability process apply on top and are handled as onboarding, not as an afterthought.

For federally owned or leased buildings, the Interagency Security Committee risk management process defines the facility security level and the countermeasures expected at it. Post plans reference it where it applies, because that is the language the reviewing authority already uses.

Insider threat, and where the investigations side takes over

An insider threat programme is not a guard function, but the guard force generates most of its raw reporting: the badge used at an odd hour, the container found unsecured twice, the escort that ended early, the photograph taken where photography is prohibited. Our officers are briefed to report those as facts without conclusions, and to route them to the facility’s programme rather than investigate on their own initiative.

When the facility wants the next step taken, it can be taken under the same contract. Protective intelligence and OSINT, digital forensics on a device or account with a defensible chain of custody, background and due-diligence screening on personnel and vendors, and managed cyber monitoring all sit in-house. One accountable party across the physical and the digital is not a convenience here; it is what keeps the timeline clean when somebody later asks who touched what.

How a programme is priced

Federal and state work is quoted per post, per hour, built up from the applicable wage determination plus fringe, then supervision, training to the site’s standard, equipment, insurance and overhead. Armed posts, cleared personnel requirements, and specialised screening qualifications each move the rate. Shift structure and coverage hours move it more than most buyers expect, because a post that cannot be filled from a normal roster has to be recruited against.

Included rather than billed separately: site survey and post orders, supervision, incident reporting, uniform and standard equipment, licensing and insurance. Quoted separately: surge and emergency coverage, investigative and forensic work, specialised screening equipment, and clearance sponsorship costs where they fall to the contractor.

Frequently asked questions

Registered and ready to contract

Certificates of insurance naming your organization as additional insured, blanket waiver of subrogation, and primary and non-contributory endorsements are issued on request and typically returned the same business day. W-9, capability statement, licensing copies and completed vendor-onboarding packets are available on request. We carry $1M/$2M general liability, $1M automobile liability, and workers’ compensation, and we have worked as a subcontractor on large construction and federal projects.

Honeybadger is not currently licensed in every jurisdiction. Where a client requires coverage in a state we do not yet hold, we will pursue licensing for the engagement.