I'm not sure an RFQ is a good means of handling information
gathering...not that I haven't seen it done that way in the past.
Questions like these, good as they may be, are going to generate a
wide variety of responses, making comparisons of the responses
difficult if not impossible.
For example, question #1: I'd be hard pressed to deliver a
competitive quotation for "review[ing] our current Room View
6 setup and see what other options we could add", unless you were A)
going to make your RV system available for all perspective bidders to
review, prior to bidding and B) tell all perspective bidders what you
expected to see added.
Assuming you're not intending this RFQ to serve as a quasi-interview
like process, aimed at finding an AV contractor to work with you on a
design/build project [unusual for institutional clients], I'd
recommend hiring someone [technology consultant, AV contractor, AV
programmer, etc...] to act as a designer/consultant and work with you
to determine what's available and/or what you want the systems to do.
More specific to the Crestron side of things, assuming your an A+
Partner, call your Crestron rep and ask him/her to stop by and spend
some time going over your needs.
Once you know exactly what you want, write a RFQ to that spec. That
way the vendors will know exactly what the system[s] need to be, and
you'll know exactly what your getting and how much it's gonna cost,
before the first wire is pulled.
--- In Crestron@..., Jon Bannan <bannan@...> wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking for a few recommendations from the company side of things
regarding the questions below? As a CAIP or a programming company,
have
you had a client ask for the following items and how have you handled
it? I'm finishing my RFQ for this year and was wondering if there
was a
way to get these included in a system review or something.
1.) Is there a way that I can have someone review our current Room View
6 setup and see what other options we could add? What are we missing?
etc? Kind of a review of our system and recommendations as to what
could be added to enhance the functionality and usage of RV.
2.) We are obviously interested in integrating the Emergency
Broadcasting function that was just mentioned. What is needed to make
this happen? Any hardware or software, etc?
3.) There are often times that we need to provide reports to our
Provost
and the Cabinet regarding lamp hours, equipment usage, etc. So I'm
interested in someone creating a custom report that we can run when
needed for the various information.
Does any of this make sense to you guys? Again, I'm not looking for
a $
number right now, more of a "hey this is what one of our clients did or
this is what we've seen requested before" etc.
Thanks!
--
Jon Bannan - CTS
Media Manager
Media & Technology Support Services
The College of New Jersey
2000 Pennington Road
Forcina Hall 123
Ewing, NJ 08628
609-771-2304 - Office
609-637-5126 - Fax
bannan@...
