Michael Stapleton Associates, LTD.

Michael Stapleton Associates, LTD., doing business as MSA Security, is a New York City-based security services prime contractor delivering explosive detection canine team (EDCT) services, physical security screening, threat analysis, and global protective operations to federal agencies on full-and-open, non-set-aside contracts. The vendor operates almost entirely as a prime (98% of 130 prime awards), competing through the General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule and single-award indefinite delivery contracts rather than through SBA set-aside vehicles.

MSA Security's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in protective and security services, anchored by a $450 million single-award IDIQ with the Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security for global canine services awarded March 30, 2023, through March 29, 2027. This flagship vehicle dominates the portfolio: the State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security represents 18 awards and $1.15 billion in combined potential value — 94% of the vendor's total combined value across all 132 awards. Under this IDIQ, MSA Security has received two large delivery orders: a $207.9 million firm fixed-price order for Diplomatic Security Global Canine Services Center Worldwide Protective Services (place of performance Winchester, Virginia), and a $3.39 million firm fixed-price order for Global Canine Sustainment services exercising Option Year 2 through December 29, 2029. In FY2024, the State Department prime contract invoiced $17.9 million across 138 FTEs and 286,199 contractor hours with Matlock And Associates, LLC, an 8(a) WOSB, providing IT and cybersecurity subcontractor support representing 30% of total contractor hours; government-paid rates on that prime contract averaged $62.45 per hour in FY2024, down from $84.59 in FY2023.

Beyond State, customer concentration is distributed across federal law enforcement and facility protection agencies. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Procurement Operations placed 29 awards valued at $16.1 million for EDCT services at Manhattan and National Capital Region checkpoints; the Department of Homeland Security Transportation Security Administration issued two awards totaling $2.17 million for explosive detection canine services at two TSA facilities in Chantilly, Virginia; the U.S. Marshals Service Southern New York awarded a $2.35 million delivery order for three handler-canine teams supporting fugitive apprehension; and the National Park Service awarded contracts for threat analysis and canine services at the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island. The Office of Personnel Management and General Services Administration each placed multiple orders for X-ray screening system support and mail facility screening across federal buildings in the Washington, D.C. and New York metropolitan areas. All 28 distinct customer agencies served the vendor without set-aside designations.

MSA Security places the majority of its work through two parent vehicles: the Law Enforcement & Security Services vehicle (79 task orders, $22.4 million combined potential value) and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (15 task orders, $16.3 million combined potential value). A single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (SAQMMA16D0106) carries 10 task orders valued at $180.6 million, representing additional State Department business routed through a separate vehicle. The vendor also recently won a new $6.74 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Department of State's Office of Procurement Operations awarded February 1, 2026, providing EDCT services for Manhattan and Bethesda, Maryland through January 31, 2031; two delivery orders have already been issued under this vehicle ($204,716 for Manhattan EDCT and $179,511 for Bethesda and McLean EDCT services).

Award activity has accelerated in recent years — two awards in 2022, three in 2023, five in 2024, eight in 2025, and four through early 2026 — driven primarily by expansion of State Department canine operations. Recompete exposure is minimal: only three awards carrying $505 thousand in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold reached $44.6 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $1.3 million across 7.6 FTEs; FY2023: $22.9 million across 122 FTEs; FY2024: $20.4 million across 113 FTEs), representing a subset of the vendor's federal contracting activity and excluding classified work, State Department canine operations at full scope, and non-federal revenue. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates ranged from $77.78 to $138.45 per hour, with a median of $87.93 per hour. The vendor maintains thirteen active GSA Schedule labor categories spanning CCTV operatives ($47.48/hr) through Technical Security Countermeasures Technician III ($345.59/hr), with no security-cleared positions offered.

MSA Security operates predominantly as a self-performing prime: across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors accounted for 3% of total contractor hours, with five named subcontractors engaged episodically. The vendor also holds two small federal sub awards — a May 2025 sub to Fluor Marine Propulsion for naval nuclear laboratory support and an October 2024 sub to Leidos on a cargo mission contract — representing less than 2% of the portfolio's prime-contract footprint. The vendor's award history spans 1999 to present, registering in SAM.gov since 2003, with sustained activity across federal protective services, diplomatic security, and federal facility screening operations.