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The Contracting, Purchasing and Quantities Controls for Security Guarding Services were issued by EXPRO (the Expenditure Efficiency and Government Projects Authority) under Minister of Finance decision no. 18 dated 6/1/1448H, effective 20/1/1448H. They are a mandatory reference for government entities writing guarding tender documents. The controls define guarding services as those provided by companies licensed by SAIS and split them into two services: buildings and infrastructure security, and event security.
Three items are pass/fail: a certified copy of the SAIS guarding licence, a site-visit certificate and, where required, the local-content baseline. The technical offer is then scored on criteria that include similar projects, an SAIS classification grade that fits the scope, methodology, a security risk plan, organisation chart and CVs, a training plan, an equipment list, ISO 9001 or a QA manual, quality, business-continuity and OHS plans, and the injury and incident record for the past five years. The technical pass mark is 70%.
For manpower, the controls require Saudi staff aged 18 or over, with a good-conduct certificate, a criminal-record check and medical fitness, trained at SAIS-approved or Public Security training centres. A guard works 48 hours a week (36 in Ramadan) and no more than one shift, female staff are assigned to women's sections, and a personnel file for each guard is due one month before site handover. Daily penalties apply to cases including absent staff, missing documents, leaving a post before relief and a site left uncovered for more than one hour.
The controls keep a guarding tender for guarding. Supply and installation of guard rooms and security gates, visitor reception, security systems such as CCTV, access control and intrusion detection, OHS works and security consultancy are all procured separately, while control-room operation and CCTV monitoring sit inside guarding. That is how we work: our guards staff your posts and control rooms, and the systems stay with your systems contractor.
Sources: EXPRO: Contracting, Purchasing and Quantities Controls for Security Guarding Services (Arabic PDF) · EXPRO: contracting and purchasing controls and the operational-data template · EXPRO news: approval of the controls (23 Jul 2026)
The penalty matrix in the controls lists breaches charged per day and per case: an absent guard, missing documents, uniform breaches, sleeping or phone use on post, leaving a post before relief, and a site left uncovered for more than an hour. Every absence not covered in time becomes a contract finding and a conversation with procurement.
The controls ask for a file on each guard one month before site handover, covering ID, qualifications, good conduct, criminal record, medical check, contract, insurance and GOSI, followed by quality, business-continuity and HSE plans within 30 days of handover. Any late part delays the start of service.
The controls require female staff for women's sections and bar staff from entering areas reserved for the other gender without written permission. Entities that receive female visitors need female guards at entrances, waiting halls and women's sections on every shift those sections are open.
The controls ask entities to attach the current contract's manpower list so that good staff can be retained, and a tender can take about a year from bids to service start. Throughout, the buildings must stay covered, and the handover between teams must leave no post empty.
One entity often has a headquarters, branch buildings, car parks, control rooms and official events. Each role in the controls has a title and minimum qualification: a bachelor's degree for the project manager, a diploma for the security supervisor, intermediate school for guards and CCTV monitors, with daily and periodic reports in Arabic and incident reports within 24 hours.
We are registered on Etimad and build the technical offer in the order of the evaluation criteria in the controls: a certified copy of our SAIS licence, our methodology for attendance, permits, patrols, keys, shifts, emergency response and post deployment, a security risk plan, organisation chart, training plan and equipment list. We attend the site visit, which is a pass/fail condition.
The roster includes relief guards for breaks, and the shift supervisor covers any absence from the team assigned to your entity, so no post is left without a guard and you receive the contracted headcount. We review headcount with you every month.
Saudi female guards, available in all cities including night shifts and around the clock, for women's entrances, female visitor halls and women's sections, under the same contract and supervision. The team works to the written-permission rule for entering areas reserved for the other gender.
Where your entity already has a camera system, our guards can run your control room: watching screens, dispatching patrols to alarms and keeping the occurrence log. Supply and maintenance of the system stay with your systems contractor, as the controls separate the two services.
Event security is one of the two services the controls define. We provide guarding for official events and conferences your entity hosts: entrance control, invitation and pass checks and hall guarding, for the number of days set in the contract.
We plan the takeover around the current contract's end date, review the manpower list attached to the tender, agree post orders with your security and safety department, and take over the registers on the agreed day, so every post stays staffed during the handover.
We survey the buildings, gates, critical points and control rooms with your security and safety department, agree post orders for each post, prepare the guard files due before handover, then mobilise on the date set in the contract.
Each shift has a named supervisor who carries out supervisory rounds of the posts, as the controls require on all shifts, handles escalation and is your direct contact for the whole shift.
Every post keeps a daily occurrence log, gates keep registers of visitors, vehicles and passes, and you receive daily and periodic reports in Arabic. Incidents are reported to your contact within the same shift.
MHRSD work-environment rules for the guarding sector say a guard may not work 5 continuous hours without a break of at least 30 minutes, with a substitute covering the post. We build that relief into the roster, so entrances and control rooms stay staffed through every break.
If a guard is absent, the shift supervisor brings in a replacement from the team assigned to your entity to cover the post, and the permanent replacement is completed within the period your contract sets.
Each month we review logs, incidents, findings and headcount with you, update post orders, and plan ahead for event days and new facilities added to the contract.
Yes. Halcones holds SAIS private civil guarding licence 2611000012, Category One, valid to 28 April 2027, which allows a guard force of up to 1,000 guards. A copy goes into the technical offer.
If you are estimating need, we can survey the buildings with you and provide the operational data the controls ask for, such as gates, critical points, shifts and control rooms. Writing the specifications and the decision to tender stay with your entity.
We are registered on Etimad. Email the tender number and specifications to info@halcones.sa. We review the scope and criteria, attend the site visit and prepare our technical and financial offers to the specifications.
Yes. We get back to you within 15 minutes of your request, survey the site and send a priced post plan that follows your entity's purchasing procedure, then mobilise on the agreed date.
We plan the takeover around the current contract's end date, review the manpower list the controls ask you to attach, agree post orders and take over the registers on the agreed day, so every post is staffed as the outgoing team leaves.
The controls say a guard works 48 hours a week (36 in Ramadan) and no more than one shift. A post staffed 24/7 therefore needs about 3.5 guards on paper (168 ÷ 48) and, in practice, around 4 to 4.5 once leave and absence relief are counted. The number of these posts drives the cost more than anything else.
Yes. Female guards are available in all cities, including night shifts and around the clock. They can staff women's entrances, female visitor halls and women's sections, under the same contract and supervision as your other posts.
Under the controls these are procured separately from guarding, including supply and installation of guard rooms and security gates, security systems, visitor reception and security consultancy. Our contract focuses on guarding and on running your control rooms with our guards.
Yes. Where your entity has a camera system in place, our guards provide control-room monitoring: watching the screens, dispatching patrols to alarms and keeping the occurrence log. The design and maintenance of the system stay with your systems contractor.
Yes. We guard official events and conferences your entity hosts, from entrance control to hall guarding, for the number of days set in the contract and under the same supervision.
Yes. 100% of our guards are Saudi, as the Private Civil Security Guarding Law requires of all staff at guarding companies, and as the controls require of the workforce.
We cover all 13 regions from our office in Al Olaya, Riyadh, including Makkah, Madinah, the Eastern Province and Qassim. One contract can cover your entity's buildings in several cities.
Tell us your purchasing stage and how many gates and critical points you have. We get back to you within 15 minutes, survey the site and send a clear post plan with a firm price. If you have tender specifications or an Etimad tender number, send them to info@halcones.sa.
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