NAICS 561621 · Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) government contracts
20,506 federal contract awards on file carry NAICS 561621. Below: where that work is performed, who has been winning it, which agencies buy it, and the solicitations open under this code right now.
What NAICS 561621 covers
Official 2022 classification
- National industry
- 561621 · Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths)
- NAICS industry
- 56162 · Security Systems Services
- Industry group
- 5616 · Investigation and Security Services
- Subsector
- 561 · Administrative and Support Services
- Sector
- 56 · Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
Also searched as: alarm, access control, cctv.
Codes and titles are the U.S. Census Bureau's 2022 NAICS, verbatim. Nothing on this page paraphrases an official title.
SBA size standard
$25 million in average annual receipts
This is the threshold SBA publishes for NAICS 561621 itself. A business at or below it counts as small for a contract carrying this code, which is what makes it eligible for small-business set-asides. Standards are revised, so check the figure in effect on the solicitation's date.
13 CFR 121.201— the official size-standard table →Not sure whether you qualify? The free set-aside checker walks the size test and the certification programs one question at a time.
Federal contract awards under NAICS 561621
Awards on file
20,506
An exact count of the federal contract award records we hold carrying NAICS 561621. It is more than this page folds in one pass (500awards), so we publish no dollar totals or contractor rankings for this code — a ranking computed from part of an industry is not that industry's ranking. The state breakdown below is measured separately and each row is exact for its state.
Where NAICS 561621 work is performed
Award records under 561621 in the 32 stateswhere this industry ranks among that state's largest by contract dollars. Each row is exact for its state; a state where 561621 ranks below that cut contributes nothing here, so treat the list as a floor rather than a national breakdown. Measured August 21, 2026 — these figures describe the records we held at that moment.
- Virginia
2,001 award records
$2,400,657,064
- California
1,165 award records
$935,334,016
- District of Columbia
1,435 award records
$814,809,476
- Maryland
1,786 award records
$640,238,453
- Texas
989 award records
$482,318,439
- Alaska
300 award records
$312,714,275
- Massachusetts
398 award records
$292,016,225
- Michigan
234 award records
$192,162,199
- Colorado
526 award records
$184,909,042
- Georgia
357 award records
$163,801,148
- New York
613 award records
$128,408,471
- South Carolina
299 award records
$123,933,910
- Washington
399 award records
$108,053,909
- Ohio
491 award records
$87,095,779
- Hawaii
342 award records
$57,528,646
- Oklahoma
283 award records
$53,783,484
- Kansas
242 award records
$51,706,161
- Montana
246 award records
$34,136,562
- New Mexico
327 award records
$28,994,512
- Nevada
148 award records
$28,433,592
- Rhode Island
151 award records
$27,326,668
- West Virginia
153 award records
$24,400,046
- Arkansas
130 award records
$21,828,825
- Nebraska
81 award records
$13,470,717
- New Hampshire
71 award records
$13,265,324
- North Dakota
108 award records
$13,086,170
- Iowa
113 award records
$12,751,551
- South Dakota
97 award records
$9,424,907
- Wyoming
77 award records
$9,169,926
- Maine
71 award records
$7,785,399
- Delaware
59 award records
$6,938,492
- Vermont
50 award records
$6,825,399
Government bids open under NAICS 561621
See more open bids →Awards are history. These are live: solicitations tagged with this code that still have a deadline ahead of them, soonest first, each carrying the agency's own published record — the buyer, the deadline and the documents. Sam's deep workup, the part that names what disqualifies bidders, is published for specialty-trade construction and janitorial and facilities services, and this industry is not in that scope — so we do not publish one here.
Nothing carrying 561621 is open this minute — solicitations come and go daily. Get free alerts below and Sam will email you when one lands.
How to use a NAICS code to win government work
Your NAICS code is not paperwork trivia. It is the hinge the whole federal eligibility question turns on: the buyer assigns one code to the requirement, that code sets the SBA size standard the offers are measured against, and the size standard decides whether your business counts as small — and therefore whether you can compete for the set-aside version of the work at all.
Which means the first question is never “can I do this job”. It is “is this contract classified as work I am registered and sized to do”. A firm that can genuinely perform under 561621 but never listed it on its SAM.gov registration is invisible to the market research a contracting officer does before writing the solicitation, which is where most small-business awards are really decided.
Award history under a code tells you the rest. It shows which agencies actually buy this work and where, which contractors have been holding it, and roughly what it pays — before you spend two weeks on a proposal against an incumbent who has held the contract for nine years. A contract with an end date twelve to eighteen months out is a recompete in the making, and the quiet window before it is posted is when a capability statement and a call to the contracting office are worth more than any proposal you could write later.
None of it works if you are not registered. A federal award requires an active SAM.gov registration with a UEI, and the set-aside on a solicitation decides whether your bid is even read. Both are free to sort out, and both are the most common reason a ready contractor is disqualified on a technicality.
Where this page's facts come from
- The classification. U.S. Census Bureau 2022 NAICS. Codes, titles and the sector hierarchy are reproduced verbatim from the Census files and cross-checked against a second official Census file. Nothing is paraphrased or shortened.
- The size standard. SBA, 13 CFR 121.201. We print a threshold only when it is published for these exact six digits; where it is not, we say so and link the table rather than showing a related industry's figure.
- The award figures. Federal prime contract awards published by USAspending.gov, the government's official spending record. Public record, free, no data vendor in between. Grants, loans and direct payments are excluded — they are not work a contractor competes for — and so is state, county and city purchasing.
- What is not here. This is a portion of federal contracting under 561621, not all of it. Treat these figures as a floor: the real market is larger than what is on this page. For an industry this size we publish the exact record count and the per-state figures, and deliberately publish no dollar totals or rankings, because the fold a page render can afford would cover only part of the code.
- Missing values. Where USAspending records no amount, agency or recipient, we leave it out instead of filling it in. An award with no reported amount is still counted as an award but enters no total or average, which is why a row's award count can outrun its dollars.
NAICS 561621 — common questions
- What is NAICS code 561621?
- 561621 is the U.S. Census Bureau's 2022 NAICS code for Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths), inside the Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services sector and the Administrative and Support Services subsector. Federal solicitations carry exactly one NAICS code, and that code is how the buyer classifies the requirement — it decides which size standard applies to the bid and, with it, whether your business counts as small for that contract.
- What is the SBA size standard for NAICS 561621?
- SBA publishes $25 million in average annual receipts for NAICS 561621 in 13 CFR 121.201. A business at or below that threshold counts as small for a contract carrying this code, which is what makes it eligible for small-business set-asides. Check the current table yourself before you self-certify — the standards are revised, and the figure that matters is the one in effect on the solicitation's date.
- Where is NAICS 561621 work performed?
- Virginia leads of the states whose award records we hold for this code, with 2,001 awards. Place of performance is where the work happens, not where the winner is headquartered, so this is the market you would be serving rather than a list of local companies. Every state whose stored industry leaderboard reaches this code is listed on this page, each linking to its own award history; a state where it ranks below that cut is missing from the list entirely.
- Are there open government bids under NAICS 561621 right now?
- Not as of this page load. That is a fact about the feed we track — federal SAM.gov postings plus the state portals we pull — and not a statement that no government anywhere is buying this work today. Join the free alerts and Sam will email you when a solicitation carrying 561621 appears.
- Do I have to use NAICS 561621 to bid?
- You bid what the solicitation says. The buyer assigns one NAICS code to the requirement, and that code — not the list on your SAM.gov registration — sets the size standard your offer is judged against. Your registration should carry every code you can genuinely perform, because that is what buyers filter on during market research, but adding a code you cannot deliver under does not make you eligible for anything.
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