The BOQ cross reference
Your BOQ names a cabling maker we do not stock.
What a structured cabling schedule written around one maker maps to in the ranges this company stocks, matched line by line against the stated spec.
Data Systems does not stock the maker your schedule is written around. What it does, and has done across four decades of tenders, is take that schedule and return it matched, line by line, from the makers it is authorised for.
A tier one cabling BOQ is almost always the same bill whoever wrote it: category cable by the box, jacks and plates by the point, panels by the rack, cords by the link, and the management around them. Every one of those lines has a direct counterpart in CommScope NETCONNECT, which this company stocks and is authorised for, with SYSTIMAX above it where the consultant asks for it by performance tier, and the fibre side is served the same way.
The match is made against the specification the schedule actually states: category, shielding, jacket rating, port count, mounting, solid against stranded, LSZH against PVC, loaded against unloaded. Where a line is genuinely particular to its maker, the quote says so instead of papering over it. A substitution that silently downgrades a spec fails the site acceptance test at the worst possible time, so the checking is the service. Anything the schedule leaves unstated gets asked about rather than assumed.
Line by line
- Category 6 and 6A cable runs is quoted as CommScope NETCONNECT copper cable.
- Keystone jacks and faceplates is quoted as NETCONNECT jacks and faceplates.
- Copper patch panels and managers is quoted as NETCONNECT and Netrack panels and management.
- Copper and fibre patch cords is quoted as NETCONNECT cords, factory terminated.
- Fibre enclosures and pigtails is quoted as SYSTIMAX and NETCONNECT fibre.
- Racks and enclosures is quoted as Netrack cabinets and open frames.
Asked at the counter
Can Data Systems quote a BOQ written around a maker it does not stock?
Yes, as substitution. Each line is matched to CommScope NETCONNECT or SYSTIMAX and the ranges alongside them, against the spec the BOQ states, and the schedule comes back with datasheets so the consultant can approve every swap before anything is ordered.
Will the substitution hold up in a tender?
The quote comes back with current manufacturer datasheets for every substituted line, and manufacturer authorisation letters are arranged for the brands Data Systems is authorised for. Whether a given tender accepts equivalents is the tender's own rule, so check the schedule's substitution clause first.
How is an equivalent line chosen?
By the stated specification, never by the name: category, performance tier, shielding, jacket, count and mounting are matched first, and any line where the schedule is particular gets flagged to the consultant rather than silently swapped.
Send the schedule as it stands, a photograph of a printed page included, and it comes back matched.
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