Projects

SBTC is pleased to offer both member and non-member organizations per-project pricing on a wide variety of Information Technology related projects.

Some of our more regularly requested projects include:

• Wireless Network Analysis, Design, and Deployment
• Audiovisual design and implementation, such as for meeting or teaching spaces
  • Projectors, interactive boards, and smart teaching spaces
  • Video presentation and meeting room media needs
• Website Design for non-profit organizations, parishes, schools, and combined sites (please see our gallery for some examples)
• Security cameras and video recording system design and implementation
• Mobile Device Management setup and ongoing administration
• Computer lab upgrades, replacements and additions

We're also pleased to engage in less common projects, and have enjoyed working with clients on items such as the following:

• Library and other database transfer and consolidation
• Database and software interoperability testing and integration
• IT Project Management of 3rd party contractors & vendors on behalf of members
• One-off network configuration enhancements

Affordable

Projects from SBTC are designed to be affordable. Our costs for labor and expertise are kept low, as is our overhead as a non-profit serving other non-profits.

Member rates for projects are between $30 and $35 per hour.

Non-member rates are between $45 and $50 per hour.

Managed

SBTC engages in an end-to-end project management process to ensure project success with respect to identified goals. The provides for timely preparation, scheduling, ordering, implementation, and followup of client projects.

Depending on the project, management may start with goal setting and analysis, including formal technical analysis of needs or "current status" for certain technical projects. Other projects may begin with client education, explaining the options and recommendations from SBTC for how to best meet the client's needs.

Throughout, we seek to provide ongoing communication and build confidence and satisfaction with our project management process, and the work we deliver.

Phased

Along with our goal to make project broadly affordable, we understand that many of our organizations may not have the funds immediately available to complete a large infrastructure project at once. Unlike corporate vendors who seek to sell a project as a single package and move on, as well as levy penalties for delays, SBTC is thrilled to break projects into manageable phases.

Wireless is a good example, though any project can be phased if we can agree of good break points. In many sites' wireless deployments, the costs of equipment and labor have been more than they've budgeted for (since often, these were not budgeted at all). In many such instances, in a 3 story building as example, we've completed the top floor as Phase 1 (identified as greatest need). Some time later, after fundraising targets were hit or other liabilities avoided, Phase 2 (floor 2) was implemented. Phase 3, the ground floor, might have been finished in the next fiscal year.

Generally speaking, such a 3-phase project would incur minimal if any additional costs, except as the identified needs of the site changed during the interval. Even those need changes may result in an effective savings, since it's easier to plan and implement modest alterations or additions to existing work if a team is returning for work on the next phase.

Phased deployments work for our clients. They serve their growing, changing goals, aid their approach to budget and cashflow, and minimize disruption to their campus environments.