SECURITY GUARD CONTRACTS
Every open security guard solicitation that fits your company, in one list — so you stop finding out about contracts after they closed.
The post, patrol and event-security work out for bid right now, each one in a few lines of plain English, so you can tell in about ten seconds whether it is worth your time.
See a sample issue — $99/month
Month to month. Cancel any time.
Why public work
Courts, campuses, agencies and facility managers put guard work out for bid all year — staffed posts, foot patrols, event coverage. The contracts are priced per post per hour, run a base year with options, renew, and the payer is an agency that does not haggle you down in month four.
The firms staffing those posts are rarely the biggest security company in the state. They are the ones who saw the contract while it was open.
Most guard companies learn a post existed when the incumbent's renewal goes up for another five years. GuardBids exists so that stops happening to you.
What an issue looks like
Three entries from a sample issue. Illustrative format, not live listings.
Access control post — federal building, Toledo OH
Total small business set-aside · Base + 4 option years · Closes in 20 days
Staffed entrance post, 24/7, three shifts. Officers need active state registration and pass a background check; post orders run about 30 pages and are worth reading before you price.
Campus foot patrol — community college district, Mesa AZ
Open competition · 1 year, renewable · Closes in 13 days
Evening foot patrol across two campuses, 6 pm to 2 am, vehicle patrol of parking lots. Priced per officer-hour with a minimum coverage floor.
Event security — county fairgrounds, Sedalia MO
1 season + option · Closes in 8 days
Roughly 40 event days across the season, 8–24 officers per event depending on the crowd. You bid a rate card per event size, not a flat fee.
Pricing
$99 / month
The open security guard solicitations, your trade, cancel any time.
- One post won bills every month for years.
- Month to month. Nothing to cancel, no notice period.
- The solicitations are public — you are paying to never have to hunt them down yourself.
Request onboarding — $99/month
Onboarding requests are being taken now. Card checkout goes live at launch.
Questions
- Where do these solicitations come from?
- Public sources — the same ones any company can access itself at no charge. We claim no exclusive access to anything, and we never will. What you are paying for is not seeing them first; it is never having to dig for them.
- Are you part of the government?
- No. GuardBids is a private service, not affiliated with the U.S. government or GSA. Solicitations come from public sources you can access yourself at no charge.
- What exactly do I get?
- The open security guard solicitations, each summarised in plain English — what they want, where, roughly how big, when it closes — with a link to bid. One list, nothing else in it.
- I'm not registered to bid yet.
- You will need a UEI and an active registration before an agency can award you anything. If you have not done that yet, reply to your welcome email and we will point you right.
- What if nothing fits me this month?
- Post volume moves with budget cycles and renewals. Some weeks there will be three worth pricing, some weeks none you'd staff. Month to month means you are never paying for a quiet stretch you can out-wait.
- Can I cancel?
- Any time, one click, effective at the end of the month you paid for. No notice period, no call, no retention gauntlet.
- Do you staff the posts or bid for me?
- No. You bid and you staff — we make sure you know what is open while it is still open.