Universal Protection Service, LIMITED Partnership

Universal Protection Service, LIMITED Partnership, doing business as Allied Universal Security Services, is a foreign-owned, for-profit security services provider that delivers armed and unarmed protective security officer services, security consulting, and facility protection to the federal government predominantly as a prime contractor across multiple contract vehicles and geographic regions. The vendor operates as a prime on 28% of recent awards (79 out of 286 total awards) and as a subcontractor on 72%, holding a substantial position on Department of Homeland Security, Department of the Navy, Department of Defense, and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office contracts. Universal Protection Service competes exclusively in full-and-open, unrestricted contracting; no socioeconomic set-asides are applied across the award footprint.

Universal Protection Service is headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, with administrative ties to Irvine, California. The vendor's consolidated federal footprint spans $85.34 billion in combined potential value across 286 awards (79 prime, 207 sub), with $997.5 million obligated as of the source date. Recent activity accelerated sharply: from 12 awards in 2022 to 86 in 2024 and 87 in 2025, driven by multi-year, region-specific protective security officer delivery orders under the Department of Homeland Security's Armed Protective Security Officer Services IDIQ. Representative recent prime awards include a $401.67 million delivery order for PSO services throughout the southern border through July 31, 2031; a $267.25 million delivery order for Northern California PSO services through April 30, 2031; a $226.84 million delivery order for New York metropolitan area PSO services through January 31, 2030; and a $112.51 million delivery order for upstate New York PSO services through June 30, 2030 — all under the DHS Armed PSO IDIQ. The vendor also holds a $66.73 million delivery order from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for armed security guard services and transition planning at its Alexandria, Virginia facility through August 14, 2031.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to DHS and Department of the Navy programs. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Procurement Operations accounts for 63 awards valued at $9.73 billion combined potential value, placing it as the dominant customer by dollar volume within the prime footprint. Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (73 awards) and Naval Air Systems Command (35 awards) dominate the sub-award count; across both metrics, these three customers represent approximately 69% of recent award volume. The vendor's largest single vehicle is a $10.33 billion multiple-award Global Protective Services indefinite delivery contract with the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service, awarded June 11, 2025, running through June 10, 2035. The Armed Protective Security Officer Services IDIQ, a $3.3 billion multiple-award vehicle from DHS valid through December 31, 2028, anchors 14 task orders carrying $1.69 billion in combined potential value and has generated the bulk of recent delivery-order activity — seven orders in 2026 alone across regional security operations in Michigan, the southern border, Louisiana, upstate New York, Northern California, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands, and Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

In its subcontractor role, Universal Protection Service delivers security guard and protective services to Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Sikorsky Aircraft, General Dynamics, and Sierra Nevada Company across naval ship repairs, aerospace maintenance, weapons system support, and facility operations. Across SCI-reportable prime service contracts (the subset above the $150,000 reporting threshold), the vendor invoiced $259.8 million in federal service contracting from FY2022 through FY2024, with federal FTE deployment scaling from 738 FTEs in FY2022 to 1,146 FTEs in FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI records run a median of $51.71/hr, with the 10th percentile at $27.97/hr and the 90th percentile at $61.03/hr, reflecting a labor mix spanning entry-level guards through specialized roles. On GSA Schedule, the vendor offers 12 labor categories priced from $84.20/hr for basic guards through $245.65/hr for program managers, with no security-clearance requirements posted. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subs performed approximately 7% of total contractor hours, with 14 named subcontractors engaged, indicating Universal Protection Service builds most of its delivery teams with direct-hire personnel rather than subcontract depth.

Awards completing within the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $472.3 million, concentrated in West Virginia Panhandle and Central California PSO operations set to expire between May and September 2026, representing near-term recompete exposure. The vendor holds parent contracts on the Naval Air Systems Command CMMARS vehicle (31 task orders) and several DHS indefinite delivery contracts for regional PSO services. A subsidiary, Universal Protection Service, LLC, operates as the legal delivery entity.