Swanson Services LLC

Swanson Services LLC, doing business as Swanson Security Guard & Patrol Services, provides unarmed and armed guard services, security patrols, and facility access control to federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing predominantly on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule under a Black American-owned, minority-owned, disadvantaged business enterprise profile without reliance on formal small-business set-asides across most of its prime footprint.

Swanson is a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Blackstone, Virginia, with DOT-certified DBE certification. The vendor operates under NAICS 561612 (Security Guards and Patrol Services), with 153 of its 155 recent awards falling into that category. The company's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Bureau of Prisons: the top five customer agencies account for 65% of awards by count, with the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Medical Center Lexington leading at 22 awards and $25.9 million combined potential value, followed by Federal Correctional Institution Fort Worth (29 awards, $14.5 million), Federal Medical Center Carswell (19 awards, $7.3 million), and Federal Correctional Institution Seagoville (15 awards, $3.4 million). These four BOP facilities alone anchor more than half of Swanson's combined potential value. Beyond the BOP, the vendor has placed work with the Department of the Interior, the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers, FEMA, the International Boundary and Water Commission, and the District of Columbia, though these represent smaller order volumes.

Swanson's vehicle footprint is nearly monolithic: 148 of 155 awards sit on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, carrying $79.2 million in combined potential value. The vendor also holds multiple single-award blanket purchase agreements anchoring specific facilities. The largest indefinite-delivery vehicles include a $9.755 million BPA with Federal Correctional Institution Seagoville through June 2027, a $7.136 million BPA with Federal Medical Center Lexington through April 2029, a $486.7 thousand BPA with Federal Correctional Institution Oxford through August 2031, and a $600 thousand FEMA BPA for armed guard services in Kentucky (expired October 2023). These IDVs are issued under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule and spawn task orders ranging from $4 thousand to $700 thousand, with most calls falling in the $150 thousand to $400 thousand range for quarterly guard-service periods.

Representative recent prime work includes a $540.6 thousand Total Small Business set-aside delivery order with Federal Medical Center Lexington for unarmed guard services (May–September 2026), a $467.8 thousand delivery order with the International Boundary and Water Commission for guard services at Del Rio, Texas (July 2024–July 2029), a $966 thousand facility management services delivery order with the District of Columbia (June 2024–December 2029), and a $701.97 thousand Total Small Business call with Federal Medical Center Lexington for unarmed guard services (October 2025–April 2026). The vendor also holds a $374 thousand delivery order with the Department of the Interior for unarmed security guard services at Patuxent Wildlife Refuge (November 2021–November 2026).

Activity has remained relatively steady over the past five years—13 awards in 2022, declining to 5 in 2023, rebounding to 12 in 2024, then 10 in 2025, with 7 awards logged to date in 2026. The combined potential value of $126.5 million carries $46.8 million in obligated dollars (37% drawdown), indicating substantial ongoing performance. Only $398 thousand in combined potential value faces ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, signaling low recompete pressure in the near term across the vendor's existing award base.

Swanson operates as a pure prime, with zero subcontract awards in the source dataset and zero subcontractor engagement across its Service Contract Inventory-reportable work. The vendor does not sub to other primes; it delivers guard services, escort services, facility management, and construction surveillance directly to federal customers. GSA Schedule labor categories span entry-level part-time guard roles at $38.00/hr through detention officers at $127.98/hr, with intermediate guard and alarm-monitor roles in the $74–$85/hr band. All posted categories carry high-school-equivalent education thresholds; security-clearance roles are offered alongside non-cleared positions. The SCI dataset shows sparse reportable invoiced revenue ($0 reported across FY2022–FY2025) and low FTE trajectory (18.7 FTEs in FY2022, declining to 4.9 FTEs in FY2024, then 0.0 in FY2025), reflecting the fact that most of Swanson's federal services work falls below the $150 thousand SCI reporting threshold or is captured in delivery orders and BPA calls that do not trigger invoiced-revenue reporting in the SCI dataset at the granularity shown.

Swanson Services LLC is a security guard service company that is licensed to operate in the states of Virginia and North Carolina. The Company, which provides armed and unarmed security services, was established in 2002.