Protection Unit

Protection Unit, doing business as Fashion And Clothes Tendencies, is a Belgium-based for-profit security services firm that provides armed guard services to the Department of the Army exclusively as a prime contractor on a sole-award indefinite delivery contract. The vendor operates on a full-and-open, non-set-aside basis with no SBA designations or socioeconomic certifications in its federal footprint.

Protection Unit holds a single $56.9 million indefinite delivery contract (W912PA22D0001) awarded by the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Europe Region on May 4, 2022, with an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2027. The contract covers armed security guard services, management, supervision, equipment, supplies, and transportation for static guard posts, access control, patrols, and intrusion detection system monitoring at U.S. Army installations throughout Belgium, including Chievres Air Base, Daumerie Caserne, United States Army Garrison (USAG) Brussels, USAG Brussels-Sterrebeek Annex, and Zutendaal Army Prepositioned Stock locations. As of the source date, Protection Unit has received approximately $32.4 million in delivery orders against the $56.9 million ceiling, demonstrating substantial contract utilization. Representative delivery orders include an $11.4 million order for ordering period 4 (awarded October 28, 2025, completion October 26, 2026), a $6.3 million order for guard services issued October 11, 2023, an $8.4 million order awarded February 13, 2023, and a $250,765.19 delivery order for guard services at SOFCOM (NSHQ) awarded February 10, 2026.

Customer concentration is absolute: all twelve awards (100% of the portfolio) fund Department of the Army programs, with the top-level Department of the Army accounting for $94.5 million of the combined $102.9 million potential value. The vendor's footprint consists entirely of this single IDC and its eleven delivery orders, making it operationally dependent on the Army installation security mission in Belgium. Category concentration is complete — all awards fall under NAICS 561612 (Security Guards and Patrol Services) and PSC Housekeeping-Guard.

Activity shows recurring delivery order issuance across the contract term: three awards in 2022, three in 2023, two in 2024, three in 2025, and one in 2026. Two awards with combined potential value $11.6 million reach completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure as the contract approaches its October 2027 expiration. Protection Unit operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontractor engagements in its federal award footprint.

Service Contract Inventory data indicates SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $10 million in FY2023 across 90.2 FTEs delivered to the federal government; FY2024 shows zero SCI activity in the source, likely reflecting a data reporting lag or reclassification. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran tightly clustered around $53.47/hr (median), with rates spanning $52.32/hr to $54.63/hr across the rate spectrum. The vendor carries no subcontractor overhead — zero percent of contractor hours on prime contracts are performed by named subs. Place of performance for all work is Belgium; administrative oversight is the Department of the Army Installation Management Command Europe Region.