I thought it would be worthwhile to post an extract from a tender issued by a UK Local Government dept. today.
I've long stated that tenders increasingly have a heavy bias toward price and decreasing bias on quality these days, so (unlike others) I'm posting evidence of this.
My question to Hik haters is simple (salesmen NOT engineers please). What equipment would you propose on an open manufacturer tender that stated this information?
The reason I exclude engineers is this is the situation salesman find themselves in everyday and yet still have deliver sales and growth to a company. Your conscience doesn't form part of the companies route to market I'm afraid and citing IPVM and the US Gov isn't going to cut the mustard with a procurement department against a solution that exceeds the specification requirements and comes in most competitively.
The tender BTW is for a small 23 camera IP system with a budget of <£50k. Nothing says to use or avoid Hikvision - so its a simple flat playing field.
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