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Document · media · IT asset destruction · Houston, TX

Destruction you can prove.

Anyone can shred paper. What an agency has to be able to produce afterwards is the record: who held the material at every moment, under what seal, destroyed by what method, against which standard. That record is what we build, and the certificate is generated from it rather than typed up after the fact.

NAICS
561990

All Other Support Services

Size standard
$16.5M

Small business

PSC
R614

Paper shredding

UEI / CAGE
Pending

SAM.gov in progress

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  • Documented chain of custody — Every transfer signed and timestamped, from container seal to destruction.

  • Certificate of Destruction on every job — Method, standard, date, weight, and the seal numbers destroyed.

  • Customer witness welcome — Watch the destruction, on site or at the plant. No appointment fee.

What we do not yet hold is listed just as plainly on the compliance page.

Chain of custody

SampleSB-WO-0000 · 2026-08-24
Collection point
Sample collection point
Containers
4 consoles · 1 media tote
Material
Paper records and 6 hard disk drives
Verified weight
412 lb
  1. 01

    Containers sealed at the collection point

    08:41:07

    Consoles emptied into transport totes and sealed in front of the customer representative.

    Seal intactSeal SB-441702 – 441706Signed TECH-04 · customer rep countersigned
  2. 02

    Loaded to a locked vehicle

    08:53:20

    Seals photographed against the manifest. Cargo area locked and alarmed before departure.

    Seal intactSigned TECH-04
  3. 03

    Departed site

    09:02:11

    Direct route. No intermediate stop, consolidation, or transfer between vehicles.

    Seal intactSigned TECH-04 · GPS route log
  4. 04

    Arrived at the destruction facility

    09:47:56

    Gate log entry, vehicle to controlled receiving bay.

    Seal intactSigned OPS-01
  5. 05

    Seals verified against the manifest

    09:52:40

    Five seals presented, five expected, weight recorded at intake.

    Exception recordedSeal SB-441702 – 441706Signed OPS-01 · TECH-04 witness

    Seal SB-441704 was written to the manifest with two digits transposed. Corrected against the physical seal, re-verified by a second operator at 09:56:18, and both the original entry and the correction are retained. Custody was not broken.

  6. 06

    Destroyed under observation

    10:14:02

    Paper cross-cut and baled. Six drives disintegrated, serials recorded individually. Recorded to camera.

    CompleteSigned OPS-01 · OPS-03
  7. 07

    Certificate of Destruction issued

    10:22:15

    Generated from the entries above. Every seal number reconciles, or no certificate is produced.

    CompleteSigned Authorised signatory
Method
Cross-cut shred, then disintegration for media
Standard
NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 — Destroy

Certificate SB-COD-0000 issued · retained seven years

The custody record behind one job. This one is a format sample — no work has been performed for any customer yet.

What we destroy

Four lines of work, one record behind all of them

Priced separately, run on the same custody chain. A drive and a box of case files leave your building under the same numbered seal and land on the same certificate.

Paper and records destruction

Locked consoles, scheduled service, cross-cut destruction.

Priced per container, per service

Hard drive and electronic media destruction

Physical destruction to NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 Destroy.

Priced per unit, serial-tracked

IT asset disposition

Decommissioned equipment, inventoried and settled.

Priced per asset, less recovery credit

One-time purge

Records-retention cleanouts, office moves, evidence disposal.

Priced per project

On-site or off-site

The question every statement of work asks first

Both run the same custody chain. The difference is where the material stops being readable.

On-site

Destroyed in the truck at your loading dock

Custody
Material never leaves your address intact
Witness
In person from the dock. A camera feed is not a substitute — the CJIS glossary is explicit that cameras do not constitute an escort
Suits
CJI and evidence material, classified-adjacent holdings, and any SOW that names on-site destruction

Off-site

Sealed, transported, destroyed at the plant

Custody
Numbered seals and a signed transfer at every hand-off
Witness
Scheduled plant witness in person. Video is retained, but it does not satisfy a CJIS escort requirement
Suits
Routine scheduled service and high-volume purges where throughput sets the price

Standards

What we build against

Compliance is the whole reason an agency buys this rather than putting a shredder in the copy room. The obligation stays with the organisation that owned the data, even when a vendor handled the disposal.

  • FBI CJIS Security Policy

    §5.8 Media Protection, control MP-6 · screening at §5.12 (v5.9.5) / PS-3 (v6.1)

    Digital media sanitized or destroyed before disposal, release out of agency control, or reuse, by overwriting at least three times or by degaussing; inoperable digital media destroyed outright; non-digital media destroyed by crosscut shredding or incineration; and the destruction witnessed or carried out only by authorised personnel.

  • NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2

    Guidelines for Media Sanitization, final 26 September 2025

    Sanitization categorised as Clear, Purge, or Destroy, selected against the confidentiality of the data and whether the media leaves organisational control, with verification and a record of what was done.

  • HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules

    45 CFR §164.310(d)(2), §164.530(c)

    Protected health information must be rendered unreadable, indecipherable, and unable to be reconstructed. Disposal is a covered function, which makes the destruction vendor a business associate.

  • FACTA Disposal Rule

    16 CFR Part 682

    Reasonable measures to protect against unauthorised access to consumer report information on disposal, including burning, pulverizing, or shredding, or contracting with a vendor engaged in the business of record destruction.

  • GLBA Safeguards Rule

    16 CFR Part 314

    A written information security program covering the secure disposal of customer information, with oversight of the service providers who carry it out.

Read the compliance page

Send us a statement of work and we will price against it.

Not a rate card with a discount on it. If you are working to a solicitation, give us the number and the SOW; if you are replacing an incumbent, tell us the container count and the schedule. Either way you get a written price and a sample certificate in the same reply.

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