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 - over 2 years ago
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 - almost 5 years ago
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 - about 5 years ago
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 6 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 6 years ago
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By Brian Rhodes - almost 7 years ago
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 - almost 8 years ago
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 - almost 8 years ago
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 - over 8 years ago
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 - over 9 years ago
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 - over 10 years ago
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 - over 10 years ago
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 10 years ago
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 10 years ago
Bad RFPs - out of date, vague or just plain confusing - are common.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 10 years ago
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 - almost 11 years ago
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 - almost 11 years ago
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 - almost 11 years ago
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 - almost 11 years ago
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 - almost 11 years ago
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 - about 11 years ago
Mesh wireless has a dubious reputation, with many stories of system failures and finger pointing between manufacturers, integrators and end...
By Ben Wood - about 11 years ago
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 - about 11 years ago
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 - almost 12 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 - about 12 years ago
