A Safer Way to Procure CCTV
The CCTV Advisory Service is able, free of charge, to advise your school or college on the purchase and management of your CCTV system. As a member of the Association of Security Consultants we do not sell or install CCTV but offer independent advice to our clients.
CCTV purchase can be problematic for schools. Issues include identifying reputable companies, achieving an understanding of the requirement, being able to compare offerings based on different solutions and equipment, how the system should be operated to provide effective security, ensuring that the system meets current legislative requirements and produces pictures of evidential quality.
Even if CCTV companies have been required to quote for the same system it can be difficult to determine if the lowest quotation is offering best value or using inferior equipment to gain a price advantage.
The CCTV Advisory Service offers the following service:
We will meet with a member of your leadership team, design a specification to meet your individual requirements and ensure that it meets the requirements of BS62672-4 which covers the installation of Video Surveillance Systems (80% of CCTV systems fail to achieve this). Once completed we will submit the specification complete with budget costs. When you are satisfied with the specification, we will arrange for three pre-qualified installation companies to tender for the work, arranging for them to send their quotations direct to you.
As well as supplying the installation companies with the agreed specification we will also stipulate the specific equipment to be used. Installers do not have the freedom to change the specification or the equipment supplied.
When the quotations arrive, the only difference will be the price.
Overcoming some of the major problems that schools and colleges face.
- Time spent finding three companies who can provide quotations and knowing if they are in the 20% of installers who meet the police requirements.
- Time to explain your requirements and show the salesmen around your premises, not once, but three times.
- Having to decide the type of system that is best for you, when not only is the equipment specified by each installer different, but the basic concept and system philosophy may vary widely from company to company.
- Not knowing if the lowest quotation is offering best value or simply using inferior equipment to gain a price advantage.
To keep your new (or existing) CCTV system in optimum working order (a requirement under the Data Protection Act) The CCTV Advisory Service can also supply a unique maintenance contract that provides the freedom to change the company maintaining your system, within 45 days, at no additional cost.
Other clients include numerous schools and colleges, housing associations such as Guinness Trust, Coventry University, Canterbury Cathedral, leading high street brands, major sports complex management companies, County and District Councils as well as prestigious domestic properties such as the home of Wayne Rooney.
Please contact us to find out how we can help with your CCTV project.
