Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business

Security Solutions Group & Investigative Services  (SSGIS)

We are a total solutions provider of intelligent security risk management solutions to government, military, law enforcement and the private sector. 

The company was founded by Andre Hutchinson, a highly decorated retired US Army Disabled Veteran, who brings over thirty years of military, federal agency and commercial security services experience to bear in serving our clients. 

SSGIS provides armed/unarmed officers for security protection to a variety of clients in both the government and private sectors. 

SSGIS holds current armed guard agency licensure in the state of Virginia permitting the company to provide the solicited service immediately. In addition, the company has in place a number of strategic alliances, teaming partners and mentor protégé relationships which allows us to provide additional services in a number of areas. 

Executive Management & Support Personnel 

SSGIS principals, executives and operations managers, possess an average twenty-five years’ experience in service to one or more federal agencies; Diplomatic Security Services (DSS), FBI, ATF, US Marshals Service, Homeland Security, all branches of the Armed Forces and law enforcement. 

In addition to our company’s general capabilities, SSGIS offers the Federal, State and Local Government as well as Private Industries, several unique advantages specific to Armed Guard Services, Transportation Services, Armored Car Services and Private Protection.  Our high performance will reduce client risk and assure the highest level of service with mission success at the best value for service. The SSGIS advantage includes:

• We have highly experienced, key personnel, on staff that have performed contract guard prisoner transportation, escort, and guard services for the US Department of Justice in New York and New Jersey from facilities at 201 Varick Street to various medical facilities throughout New York and New Jersey. 
•  We operate a security guard training facility that is staffed by administrative, human resources, operations and dispatch personnel around-the-clock and overseen by a full-time manager, assuring corporate responsiveness to the client.
• Our Executive Team has an impeccable twenty-year service history of managing large Government security programs similar to the size, scope and complexity of the solicited requirement.
• We maintain a database of nearly 5,000 local officer candidates, permitting the company to staff the clients program with an “A Team” of the most qualified, experienced former military, law enforcement and security personnel. 
• We retain nearly a dozen firearms and security officer instructors, certified by the State to teach courses, assuring contract guards assigned to the program are efficiently and properly trained and licensed in accordance with state law; 
• Our security personnel are supported by an automated management system, proprietary to SSGIS, integrating timekeeping, payroll, invoicing, guard scheduling, certification and other technologies to ensure contract and regulatory compliance; and
• We provide an industry-leading, comprehensive Quality Control Program, including readiness evaluation drills, continual surveillance of our officers, weekly unannounced inspections by quality control inspectors of posts, training, and record-keeping, and Key Performance Indicators and matrices designed to measure service and ensure continual improvement.
• The SSGIS team has significant experience with DOL Prevailing Wage requirements, Service Contract Act (SCA) and Collective Bargaining Agreements.
• SSGIS has a number of personnel on staff that meet the government’s current requirements for the President’s Homeland Security Directive 12, and Government Suitability clearances.
• SSGIS has in place the financial resources to meet the requirements for administrative, uniforms, start-up, and related expenses.