We work alongside councils, architects, building services consultants, IT MSPs and office refurbishment contractors to turn a project requirement into a finished design, a proper tender pack, and a fairly appointed contractor — with CAD and BIM-aligned drawings, a blind or open tender process you control, and scoring support that stands up to audit. Stay involved for project management and a maintenance wrapper afterwards, or hand it off once the contractor’s appointed. Your call.
An AV tender pack is only as good as the brief and drawings behind it — vague specifications get vague, incomparable bids back, and someone ends up carrying the risk of an under-spec’d install. We sit on your side of the table: capturing the requirement properly, producing CAD and BIM-aligned drawings that coordinate with the wider building design, and building a tender pack that lets you compare bids like-for-like. You then choose how the work goes to market — and we can bid for it ourselves, stay out of it entirely, or run the whole appointment and delivery process on your behalf.
If you’re the one who has to get the AV element of a project right — without necessarily being the AV expert yourself — this is built around that exact position.
AV specification that coordinates with your drawings and survives value engineering, not a bolt-on after the fact.
See how we work with architects →Containment, power and data requirements handed over early enough to actually coordinate, not discovered on site.
See how we work with M&E consultants →An AV package that’s ready for first fix, priced properly, and doesn’t become the line item that derails your programme.
See how we work with fit-out contractors →Bring us in as the AV specialist behind your client relationship — we can stay invisible or be introduced, whichever suits the account.
See IT & Network services →Procurement run to a standard that holds up to audit and scrutiny, with Scotland Excel framework routes available.
See our public sector work →An internal capital project needing an independent AV voice that isn’t also trying to sell you a specific brand.
See our corporate work →Stakeholder workshops, site surveys and a written design brief that turns “we need AV in the new building” into a specification someone can actually price against.
Room layouts, containment routes, rack elevations and equipment schedules produced to coordinate with your architectural and M&E drawings — including BIM-compatible output where the project’s running on a shared model.
Specification, drawings, pricing schedule, evaluation criteria and contract terms — a complete pack that lets every bidder price the same thing, and lets you score what comes back on a like-for-like basis.
Running the process itself — issuing to bidders, handling clarification questions, collating responses and supporting evaluation — through to a fairly and defensibly appointed contractor.
Not every project needs every stage run by us — plenty of clients bring us in for the design and tender pack only, then run the appointment themselves. This is the full process when you want it end to end.
Workshops with your stakeholders and, where relevant, your design team — turning requirements and constraints into a written brief everyone’s signed off on before a single drawing gets started.
CAD and BIM-aligned drawings, equipment schedules and a technical specification, coordinated against the architectural and M&E design rather than produced in isolation.
Specification, drawings, pricing schedule and evaluation criteria assembled into a single pack that’s genuinely comparable across bidders — the single biggest factor in whether a tender process actually works.
You choose the route — blind tender with us bidding alongside others, or an open market process where we act purely as your technical advisor. Both are covered below.
Structured scoring against your published criteria, a written evaluation summary, and a recommendation you can defend to a board, a committee, or an audit.
Contractor appointed and, if you want it, we stay on to project manage delivery and wrap the finished install into an ongoing support and maintenance contract.
We can design the specification and then bid for the work ourselves. That’s a legitimate route, and one plenty of clients want — but it only works if it’s run properly, so here’s exactly how each option works.
We produce the design and tender pack, then submit our own bid alongside other invited contractors — evaluated against the same published criteria as everyone else, with scoring handled or independently verified by you or a third party so there’s no advantage in having written the spec.
We produce the design and tender pack and run the process, but don’t bid ourselves — acting purely as your technical advisor from brief through to appointment. The right route when independence has to be beyond question, such as certain public sector procurements.
Design and tender pack produced to the same standard, then issued only to your existing approved suppliers or delivery partners — or awarded directly to us where your procurement rules allow it, such as via the Scotland Excel framework.
We can stay on as your client-side representative through installation and commissioning — chasing programme, checking work against the specification we wrote, and flagging anything that drifts before it becomes a problem.
Once the install’s complete, roll it straight into an ongoing support & maintenance contract — so the project doesn’t end with a handover email and no one accountable for what happens next.
Plenty of clients just want the design, the tender pack and a fairly appointed contractor. That’s a complete, standalone engagement — no obligation to bring us back for anything else.
The single biggest factor in whether a tender process actually works.
Read more →Which route suits your project, and how to keep either one genuinely fair.
Read more →What good coordination with the wider building design actually looks like.
Read more →Before specifying a single piece of equipment for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service’s national Incident Command Centre, EIS ran a structured discovery process across multiple sessions with Training, ICT and operational stakeholders — mapping audio quality, camera coverage, recording workflows, governance and auditability.
Read the case studyThat process, not a product list, is what produced a system designed around the assessment workflow rather than around the equipment it replaced — and a hardware-based architecture that avoided the third-party dependency that had constrained the legacy system.
A blind tender is where the party that wrote the specification — in this case, us — also submits a bid for the work, evaluated against the same published criteria as every other bidder. It’s a legitimate and common route, provided the scoring is handled or verified independently so there’s no advantage in having written the spec.
Yes, via a blind tender — or we can act purely as your technical advisor and stay out of the bidding entirely if you need independence beyond question. You choose the route at the start of the project, not partway through.
Yes. Room layouts, containment routes, rack elevations and equipment schedules are produced to coordinate with your architectural and M&E drawings, including BIM-compatible output for projects running on a shared model.
A full pack covers the technical specification, CAD/BIM drawings, a pricing schedule, evaluation criteria and contract terms — enough for every bidder to price exactly the same scope, so what comes back can be compared like-for-like.
Yes — we’re an approved supplier on the Scotland Excel framework and regularly run design and procurement processes to public sector standards. See Scotland Excel for the framework route.
Yes — the finished install can roll straight into a support & maintenance contract, so there’s a single accountable party after handover as well as before it.
Tell us about the project and we'll scope how much of this process you actually need.
Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll scope it properly — usually the fastest route for anything non-standard.
Get in touchTell us where you are in the process — early-stage brief, ready to go to tender, or already have drawings that need a second opinion.
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