The general perception of the traditional bid-spec model is that the project will cost less because driving lower bids can achieve significant savings. However, the reality is that the project often costs more in the long run and various compromises are forced to be made.
When your owners are focused on a consistent end-to-end approach to project goals, shouldn’t your construction and project delivery model focus on the same?
A more effective approach in our post-pandemic world is a design/build partnership. This approach is rapidly gaining momentum among private and public sector construction projects because clients know that it has been proven to keep projects on-time, within budget, and deliver much better outcomes.
A bid/spec model is no longer the gold standard, especially for technology integration projects. IMS is working with many firms to co-design to ensure that clients experience a streamlined approach that focuses on achieving their project goals. The most successful AV projects benefit from well documented, well thought out upfront AV programming by an experienced AV engineering firm that has direct access to a qualified systems integrator. In our case, we have both!
A Design/Build partnership model offers AV systems from concept through completion, with a greater value for owners and a lower total project cost while avoiding common pitfalls that end up costing time and money late in the process.
True, measured accountability with a consistent team from concept through completion, and the addition of a broader range of services and technical experience.
A comprehensive total cost of ownership with more real-time visibility, less change orders, and long-term cost savings.
The efficiencies of a strategic design build process streamlines and maximizes square footage, saves hundreds or even thousands of hours across many disciplines, and mitigates common supply chain issues.
Lower risk, higher reward owner and end-user experience with planned year-over-year technology refreshes to stay on the cutting-edge.
Change can be difficult or intimidating, but our approach, from discovery
through implementation and support, is focused on how end-users communicate
now and how they will communicate in the future using new technology for
both in-person and virtual collaboration. Involving end-users during all
of the project phases ensures that their needs will be met and that they
will embrace new systems because they see how it will improve their work
experience. This is critical in ensuring high adoption rates.
AV projects are not simply a collection of equipment that connects to other equipment. AV projects connect people and teams to increase productivity, encourage collaboration, and inspire innovation in business.
Our team of AV experts focuses on humanizing the technology and the Day 1 experience, which keeps people and their needs top of mind and involved at every step of the project.
“The value of Design/Build as a model for our AV system investments is driven by processes IMS has established at every point of a project. We’ve lived through many AV projects, multiple vendors and consultants who over-engineer, then pass it out to 3 companies that end-up failing at some aspect of the project ... and we end up paying for that in actual dollars or re-work or lost productivity with system downtime. Not anymore. Not since 2014 when we first experienced the IMS design-build approach.”
Global Director of IT Operations & Customer Services, international law firm