The school district in the US's 7th largest city, San Antonio, Texas, has issued an RFP requiring only Verkada with a total of 1,600+ cameras and...
By Sean Patton - 11 months ago (Info+)
The US city, most famous in video surveillance for standardizing on Hikvision, has issued an RFQ for 962 Verkada cameras due Wednesday, May 1,...
By Dan Gelinas - over 3 years ago (Info+)
This physical security pro is the Physical Security Manager for the City of Calgary. He is a criminologist by training with an ASIS CPP credential....
By Dan Gelinas - over 3 years ago (Info+)
A Fortune 500 company has barred Dahua and Hikvision cameras from a large RFP due to cyber security concerns, IPVM has confirmed with the...
By IPVM Team - over 5 years ago
RFPs are hard. Do them 'right' and it takes a lot of knowledge and time. Do them 'wrong' and you can be (a) unwittingly locked into a specific...
By IPVM Team - over 5 years ago (Info+)
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By Brian Rhodes - over 5 years ago (Research)
The US and Chinese governments are working together. Now, US government entities are not only buying video surveillance products from the Chinese...
By Brian Karas - over 6 years ago (Info+)
State College, PA issued an RFP for a neighborhood surveillance system that leaves out many key details required to invite qualified bids. We...
By Brian Karas - over 6 years ago (Info+)
This 14 page guide explains the key uses, design factors, and players in the large system surveillance market. A global group of 80...
By Brian Rhodes - about 7 years ago (Info+)
Terrible RFPs are commonplace. If only there was a way to make it easy to generate terrible RFPs. Well, Honeywell, Vicon and Aiphone are working...
By John Honovich - about 8 years ago (Info+)
Update 10/31: When we first published this in July, we broke down how flawed the RFP was. Now, the city is delaying the project as it works through...
By Carlton Purvis - about 9 years ago (Info+)
Bad RFPs continue to plague the industry. In the case of one city, a poorly written RFP led to a contract that likely fails to address one of the...
By Ben Wood - about 9 years ago (Info+)
This year, IPVM launched its own discussions, with over 10,000 comments so far. Now, we have improved it with 12 new features. Here are 10 Top...
By John Honovich - over 9 years ago (Info+)
Almost everybody in the security industry has a horror story of a "low bid" system installation that has gone terribly wrong. Many city, county and...
By Ben Wood - over 9 years ago (Info+)
Bad RFPs - out of date, vague or just plain confusing - are common. But this RFP is on a whole other level. It is as if no one even looked at...
By Ben Wood - over 9 years ago (Info+)
What's worse than having a crappy consultant prepare your RFP? Perhaps doing it yourself, as this case shows. Everyone thinks end users should be...
By Ben Wood - over 9 years ago (Info+)
Philadelphia's surveillance system is a huge mess. The last we checked, they were paying $136,000 per operational camera, with most cameras broken....
By Carlton Purvis - over 9 years ago (Info+)
Contracts for US public schools, airports, city, state and military security systems can typically be obtained. This can be extremely useful if you...
By Carlton Purvis - over 9 years ago (Info+)
It is far too common to find RFPs and proposals with missing details, inadequate equipment, and out of date specs. Indeed, it is a top industry...
By Carlton Purvis - over 9 years ago (Info+)
Bad RFPs are an unfortunate fact of life in video surveillance - hurting end users and frustrating quality integrators. A new RFP from Oklahoma is...
By Carlton Purvis - over 9 years ago (Info+)
Qatar, the world's wealthiest country, is known for its opulence and may soon be for its mandatory first-rate surveillance systems. While many...
By Carlton Purvis - over 9 years ago (Info+)
Mesh wireless has a dubious reputation, with many stories of system failures and finger pointing between manufacturers, integrators and end...
By Ben Wood - over 9 years ago (Info+)
City surveillance systems often cost huge amounts of money - $10,000 per camera deployed is common. One Pennsylvania city took a different approach...
By Carlton Purvis - over 9 years ago (Info+)
Users depend on architects and engineers (A&Es) to design buildings that best meet their needs. However, many A&Es use specifications from...
By Brian Rhodes - over 10 years ago
One of the hottest procurement trends is using a ‘reverse auction’. Unlike an RFP, which typically awards a project based on multiple criteria, a...
By Brian Rhodes - over 10 years ago
