Metropolitan Security Services, Inc.

Metropolitan Security Services, Inc., doing business as Walden Security, is a woman-owned small business based in Chattanooga, Tennessee that provides armed and unarmed court security officer (CSO) and special security officer (SSO) services to the federal judiciary and law enforcement agencies as a prime contractor, competing predominantly full-and-open with no socioeconomic set-asides.

The company's federal footprint centers almost entirely on the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC), which accounts for 702 of its 962 recent awards and $5.54 billion of the combined $10.1 billion potential value across all awards. Walden Security holds six single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts with the AOUSC covering Circuits 1 through 12, with individual ceilings ranging from $121.3 million (Circuit 7) to $564.8 million (Circuit 9) and collective ceiling value exceeding $1.64 billion, all extending through March 31, 2029. The company also sits on the General Services Administration's OASIS+ Unrestricted multiple-award IDIQ, awarded December 17, 2024, with a ceiling of nearly $1 trillion through December 2029. Task orders under these vehicles fund Court Security Officer and Special Security Officer personnel, armed security operations, facility screening, patrol services, and emergency response support at approximately 430 federal court facilities nationwide. Secondary customers—the Department of Justice U.S. Marshals Service Judicial Security Division (14 awards, $1.96 billion potential value), the Department of Justice U.S. Marshals Service Office of Security Contracts (28 awards, $185.9 million), and the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (50 awards, $64.3 million)—represent law enforcement and prosecutorial security demand. A smaller, separate contract portfolio with the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention totals $1.72 billion potential value across nine awards.

Walden Security's service offering is narrowly specialized: 916 of 962 awards carry NAICS 561612 (Security Guards and Patrol Services), and 910 awards carry PSC code S206 (Housekeeping—Guard). The company delivers concrete security staffing, armed guard operations, and facility protection personnel. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue reached $216.6 million in FY2022 across 2,119 federal full-time equivalents (FTEs), but SCI reporting ceased for FY2023 and FY2024, suggesting the vendor's recent federal service contract activity exceeds the $150,000 reporting threshold in structure or scope rather than invoice patterns. On the SCI contracts captured, median government-paid rates ran $49.22 per hour, with a range from $41.84 per hour (10th percentile) to $58.13 per hour (90th percentile), reflecting lower-tier security labor pricing. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor engaged no named subcontractors, indicating a build-your-own-delivery-team posture.

Walden Security operates exclusively as a prime contractor: 962 awards (100%) are prime; zero are sub-awards. The company does not subcontract significant portions of its security staffing work and does not serve as a feeder to larger primes. This posture aligns with the labor-intensive, direct-staffing nature of court and facility security—task orders typically specify labor-hour pricing, allowing the government to pay for contractor-employed security officers deployed to individual courthouses or facilities.

Activity has remained stable at approximately 100 awards per year from 2022 through 2025, then dropped to 2 awards in the brief 2026 window visible in the source. The recompete cliff presents material exposure: 101 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next 24 months carry combined potential value of $539.5 million, representing roughly 5% of the vendor's total potential value but concentrated in core AOUSC and USMS Judicial Security Division relationships. All six circuit-specific AOUSC IDIQs extend through March 31, 2029, providing stability, but the significant number of FY2025 and FY2026 delivery orders reaching completion in September 2026 will require renewal or extension to maintain revenue continuity.

The vendor holds a distinctive position: it is the dominant, sole or near-sole provider of Court Security Officer services across the federal judiciary for the AOUSC circuits. This concentration—88 percent of awards and 93 percent of potential value flowing through just five customer entities, led by AOUSC—signals deep institutional entrenchment but also recompete and regulatory risk. As a woman-owned small business competing full-and-open, Walden Security faces no set-aside protection on its largest contracts; it competes on capability and performance history alone. The company's reliance on labor-hour task orders under master IDIQs rather than fixed-price definitive contracts means revenue scales directly with staffing utilization and hourly rates negotiated at task-order award time.