Starside Security & Investigation Inc.

Starside Security & Investigation Inc., a women-owned small business headquartered in Diamond Bar, California, provides armed and unarmed guard services, prisoner transportation, detention officer support, and medical escort services to federal law enforcement and homeland security agencies as a prime contractor across multiple contract vehicles. The company competes predominantly in full-and-open procurement — 100% of its 90 awards are prime awards with no set-aside designations, despite holding SBA certifications as a women-owned small business, self-certified small disadvantaged business, and Hispanic American-owned enterprise. Starside is a for-profit corporation.

The company's customer concentration sits heavily with Department of Justice components, which account for 70 of the top-ranked awards by count (83% coverage). The Drug Enforcement Administration alone represents 41 awards, though these are predominantly micro-purchases and small delivery orders carrying only $186 thousand in combined potential value. The Federal Bureau of Investigation San Diego Field Office issued 13 awards ($857 thousand), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued 11 awards ($100 thousand). The top-value customers, however, are the U.S. Marshals Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement: USMS placed 7 awards totaling $380.4 million in combined potential value, and ICE placed 5 awards totaling $467.6 million. The Naval Supply Systems Command's February 2026 award of a seat on the Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract (WEXMAC) 2.2 with a $55 billion ceiling dominates the vendor's potential-value footprint at 98% of combined potential across all awards, though this is a multi-award IDIQ with no task orders yet placed.

Starside's active parent vehicles include the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (49 task orders, $429.9 million combined potential value), a $366.3 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with ICE for ground transportation supporting enforcement and removal operations across Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City field offices (effective through February 27, 2027), a $30 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service Prisoner Operations Division for prisoner transportation and contract detention officers supporting Region 11 (through October 31, 2030), and a $1 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (through April 7, 2029). The ICE IDC was awarded on February 28, 2025, and carries firm fixed-price and labor-hour pricing; Starside has issued at least one delivery order under it — a $92.7 million delivery order on April 14, 2026, for ground transportation supporting San Diego field office enforcement and removal operations through April 13, 2031. The USMS BPA, awarded May 5, 2025, generated a $4.3 million BPA call on May 19, 2025, for prisoner transportation and detention officer services on a time-and-materials basis.

Recent representative work includes a $4.1 million labor-hour delivery order from ICE on September 19, 2024, for medical guards and transportation services supporting Homeland Security Investigation San Diego operations through September 22, 2029, with four option years; a $150 thousand security guard services BPA call from the San Diego Field Office on May 7, 2026, under total small business set-aside terms (extending through May 6, 2027); and recurring sub-thousand and low-five-figure purchase orders from the Drug Enforcement Administration for emergency armed and unarmed guard services, typically priced at $300 to $8,100 per order and placed via the GSA Multiple Award Schedule.

Activity has fluctuated modestly over recent years — twelve awards in 2022 declined to six in 2023, recovered to nine in 2024, grew to eleven in 2025, and five in 2026 year-to-date — with only one award (combined potential value $150 thousand) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure for the vendor.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue on federal service contracts covered in the Service Contract Inventory dataset totaled $15 million across FY2022–FY2024, with $6.4 million invoiced in FY2022 across 55.4 FTEs, declining to $4.7 million in FY2023 (37.5 FTEs) and $3.9 million in FY2024 (33.1 FTEs). On SCI-reportable prime contracts, government-paid hourly rates ran a median of $59.44 per hour, with the 10th percentile at $42.61/hr and the 90th percentile at $86.39/hr; Starside performed 100% of reported contract labor in-house with no subcontractor engagement. The company's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans eight categories from Guard I ($42.46/hr, high-school education, one year experience) through Program Manager ($94.28/hr, associate's degree, five years experience), with all roles requiring only high-school or associate credentials and no security clearance requirements. The SCI dataset represents only federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold and excludes the bulk of Starside's micro-purchase activity with federal law enforcement agencies, goods contracts, and non-federal revenue.

Security and investigative services. Uniformed and plain clothes officers. Executive protection, off duty officers. Background investigation (pre-employment screening). Security consultations. Patrol services.