Mayer Security Services subcontracts posts across Austin and Travis County to vetted Texas-licensed security companies. Event weekends in particular need partners who can field trained officers at scale on a fixed date. If your company holds a DPS Class B or Class C license, the subcontractor portal is where that work is posted.
No security company carries a bench big enough for its own peak weeks. Subcontracting is how the industry covers the gap between what has been sold and what can be staffed on a given Tuesday.
The Austin event calendar – SXSW, ACL, Formula 1 at Circuit of the Americas, and the conference season around them – creates the sharpest short-term staffing spikes of any Texas market.
Tech and semiconductor campuses run access-control and lobby posts with strict badging and reporting standards, and contract in multi-site blocks.
Sustained construction growth across Travis and Williamson counties keeps jobsite theft-prevention posts in continuous demand.
Assignments follow the contracts Mayer Security Services holds in this market. These are the categories that come up most.
Every company in the network is an independent licensed business. You keep your license, your insurance, your officers, and your own clients. These are the requirements to be assigned work.
A Class B or Class C license issued under Texas Occupations Code Chapter 1702, showing Active status. Verified against the Texas Online Private Security (TOPS) public portal before any assignment.
Commercial general liability coverage held by your company, with Mayer Security Services named as an additional insured on the certificate. Required limits vary by end client and are stated per assignment.
Coverage for every officer your company places on a post. Subcontractors are independent employers and remain responsible for their own personnel.
Level II non-commissioned officers for unarmed posts, Level III commissioned officers for armed posts, and Level IV personal protection officers where a detail calls for it. Registration current with DPS.
A completed W-9, your business entity information, and a named dispatch contact reachable outside business hours.
Incident reports filed the same shift, documented post orders, and officers who arrive on time in correct uniform. This is the requirement that actually determines whether assignments repeat.
Mayer Security Services does not sponsor, lend, or subcontract under its own license. Texas Occupations Code Chapter 1702 requires the company providing the service to be licensed in its own name.
Submit your DPS license number, certificates of insurance, workers' compensation, W-9, coverage areas, and officer headcount through the subcontractor portal.
Your license is checked as Active against the Texas Online Private Security portal and your insurance endorsements are reviewed. This is the step that takes the longest, and incomplete certificates are the usual reason it stalls.
Once approved you are added to the dispatch list for the coverage areas and post types you selected, with a named point of contact on both sides.
Posts are offered through the portal with the site, schedule, officer level, and any client-specific requirements stated up front. You accept what fits your bench and decline what does not.
Select the areas your officers can genuinely reach when you apply. Overstating coverage to appear on more lists is the fastest way off the dispatch list.
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Yes. Mayer Security Services subcontracts posts across Austin, Travis County, and the Williamson County suburbs to licensed Texas security companies. Austin demand is weighted toward event coverage, technology and semiconductor campus posts, construction sites, and multifamily property. Subcontractors must hold a current Texas DPS Class B or Class C license and carry their own general liability and workers' compensation coverage.
Those weekends are exactly when the network matters most. Large Austin events need a lot of licensed officers on a fixed date, and no single firm holds that much idle bench. Event staffing is confirmed well ahead of the date rather than called in the week of, so partner companies can commit officers and plan their own scheduling. Companies that can field a supervised team rather than scattered individual officers are prioritized.
A current DPS Class B or Class C license, your own general liability and workers' compensation coverage, commissioned officers where the post calls for armed coverage, and a real supervisor structure. Beyond compliance, the practical filter is reliability: officers who arrive on time in correct uniform, incident reports that are filed the same shift, and a dispatch contact who answers outside business hours.
Both. A large share of Austin work – corporate lobby and access control, construction gate, multifamily, and event crowd management – is unarmed Level II coverage. Armed Level III posts come up on higher-risk sites and on some tech and infrastructure contracts. Companies that can staff both are useful across more of the calendar, but unarmed-only firms are welcome in the network.
The network runs across five Texas markets. If your company covers more than one, select every area you genuinely operate in when you apply.
Licensed, insured, and able to staff a post reliably? Apply once and you are considered for every assignment in the coverage areas you select.
Applications are checked against the Texas DPS public licence register before any post is assigned. There is no account to create — approved companies receive assignment invitations by email.