Mayer Security Services subcontracts posts across Harris County and the surrounding metro to vetted Texas-licensed security companies. If you hold a DPS Class B or Class C license, carry your own insurance and workers' compensation, and can staff a post reliably, 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.
Turnaround season on the Ship Channel creates short, dense staffing spikes – a refinery turnaround can need forty officers for six weeks and nothing the month after.
Hurricane season drives storm watch, fire watch, and post-event property protection with almost no notice.
Large general contractors award multi-site jobsite security across Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery counties that no single mid-size firm covers alone.
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 is headquartered in Houston and subcontracts overflow and surge posts across Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria, and Galveston counties. The work is concentrated in industrial and Ship Channel sites, construction, warehouse and distribution, and short-notice fire watch. Subcontractors must hold a current Texas DPS Class B or Class C license and carry their own general liability and workers' compensation coverage.
Most subcontracted volume in Houston falls into three buckets. First, turnaround and shutdown support on the Ship Channel, which is high headcount over a short window. Second, construction and jobsite coverage where a general contractor has awarded several sites at once across the metro. Third, fire watch and storm response, which is almost always short notice. Standing single-post assignments are usually staffed in-house.
You need your own. Texas Occupations Code Chapter 1702 requires the company providing security services to hold its own DPS license, and Mayer Security Services does not sponsor or lend licensure. Every subcontractor in the network is an independent licensed company with its own license number, its own insurance, and its own commissioned officers. This is verified against the Texas Online Private Security (TOPS) portal before any work is assigned.
Apply through the subcontractor portal. You will be asked for your DPS license number, certificates of insurance, workers' compensation information, W-9, the areas of Greater Houston you cover, your officer headcount by commission level, and the post types you are equipped to staff. Once the license and insurance are verified, your company is added to the dispatch list for the coverage areas you selected.
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.