Networks for public buildings, quoted the way procurement needs them.
Classroom-density Wi-Fi 7, lockdown-capable door access, cameras without per-seat cloud fees — on paperwork your business office can actually process. Line-item quotes on letterhead, valid through your board cycle, POs accepted, exemption certificates applied before invoicing.
Public buildings we quote every week
Same bench-test policy as everything else in the store. The difference on this page is the paperwork and the design constraints — density per classroom, lockdown procedures, audit trails, and budgets that arrive in fiscal years.
One-to-one device programs, wing by wing
Thirty students with two devices each is a density problem, not a coverage problem. We design to client count per room, phase the BOM per wing so summer-break installs come up a building at a time, and align the paperwork with your E-Rate filing window.
Lecture halls, residence halls, the quad
Density where students congregate, per-room isolation where they live. E7 Audience for the 400-seat hall, wall-plate APs for dorm rooms, and a controller your existing IT staff can run without a certification course.
Offices, courts, public works
Segmented networks for staff, public counters, and guest access; cameras with retention measured in months; door access with an audit trail. Sole-source justification letters and vendor packets on request — same day, not after a committee.
Public Wi-Fi that survives public use
Guest networks with bandwidth fairness so one stream doesn't starve forty patrons, content filtering at the gateway where your policy requires it, and hardware that handles all-day load without a service contract attached.
The SKUs that anchor gov & edu quotes
“Add to quote” builds a shortlist that travels down to the form. Quantities and the rest of the BOM get worked out by the engineer pricing it — rough counts are enough to start.
E7 Access Point
One per two classrooms. Sized for 1:1 device programs, not square footage.
E7 Audience
Gyms, cafeterias, auditoriums — one AP where you'd otherwise hang six.
Pro Max 48 PoE
The per-wing workhorse: classroom APs, cameras, and paging on one budget.
Enterprise Fortress Gateway
Content filtering and inspection at line rate. Pair two for failover districts can't schedule around.
UniFi Access — readers & hubs
Exterior doors on one controller, lockdown from the front office, audit trail included.
AI Pro Camera · NVR Pro
4K detection at the lens, recording on RAID, retention in months — no cloud bill attached.
How buying works when the buyer is public
We've sat on the vendor side of enough school-board cycles to know what stalls a purchase. These are standing policies, not favors to ask for.
Pick the building. See the stack.
Five reference architectures from real public-sector deployments. Each is a starting point — your quote gets sized to actual floor plans, enrollment, and closets.
Design notes
Where the money should go first
Public budgets are finite and audited. This is the order of operations we recommend when the ask is bigger than the line item — and what we'll say if you try to buy it backwards.
| Spend here first | Defer without guilt | |
|---|---|---|
| Wi-Fi | Density in classrooms and assembly spaces — it's what staff and students feel daily | Outdoor coverage for the far parking lot |
| Switching | PoE budget and 10G uplinks in the closets that feed classrooms | Hot-swap PSUs on closets feeding six APs |
| Gateway | Line-rate filtering — an underpowered gateway throttles every building behind it | An HA pair at a single small site |
| Physical security | Exterior door access and entry cameras — the lockdown path | Interior cameras past code requirements |
| Spares | One spare AP and switch per building — a dead closet shouldn't wait on shipping | Cold spares for the head end under NET-30 replacement |
The most common gov & edu quote we write is phased: core and closets in phase one, classroom density in phase two, cameras and door access in phase three. Buying it all at once is fine; buying it in the wrong order is how a bond runs out before the classrooms get Wi-Fi.
Tell us about the job
Rough numbers are fine — an engineer follows up on anything that needs precision. Required fields are the ones we genuinely can't quote without.
An engineer has it.
Expect a line-item quote within one business day — hardware, quantities, and volume pricing, on letterhead and valid 60 days. If the scope needs a conversation first, we'll email to set up a 15-minute call.
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Schools, districts, campuses, agencies, libraries, and public safety — anything bought with a PO, a bid, E-Rate funds, or a tax-exempt certificate, at any size.
Use enterprise for
Private-sector campuses, hospitality, industrial, and MDU work. Same engineers, same hardware — different paperwork. Start there.
We don't install
We quote and supply the hardware. The quote's design note includes cabling counts and placement logic your low-voltage contractor or district electrician can bid from directly.