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Enterprise rollout programs

Nationwide Technology Rollouts
One program. Pilot to last site.

Nationwide rollout installers execute physical field work under customer-approved designs across your sites, with a pilot, wave calendar and consistent closeout records. SRS Networks runs that program for store, branch, warehouse, campus, office, and restaurant footprints — site survey, pilot sites, dual-coast staging, W-2-led field crews, and per-site closeout in the Project Command Center — across the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii.

Completed communications rack with labeled patch panels at a rollout site
900+
Multi-site programs
10,000+
Sites deployed
50
States covered
1996
Running rollouts since

Plan the scope

Turn the deployment service into an accepted site program

Technology deployment services coordinate field installation under customer-approved designs across business locations. Connect site readiness, material custody, physical tasks and acceptance records, with the customer's specialists retaining configurations, network changes and operational decisions.

What a deployment service must hand over

Request a site-specific work order, equipment custody record and approved physical test plan. The closeout should identify installed devices or links, completed measurements and blocked tasks. When a building differs from the pilot, retain the customer's decision before repeating changed work across the next wave.

Separate installation from operation

Name the customer engineer who prepares device configurations and authorizes network changes, plus the operator who accepts the live service. SRS records the physical work and escalates field conflicts. A successful hardware installation does not prove that a business workflow has passed or transfer responsibility for monitoring after handover.

Bring these details to the estimate

  • Site list, site types and regional waves
  • Approved drawings, equipment list and staging responsibility
  • Operating hours, site access and the customer's remote technical owner
  • Physical acceptance tests, pilot release criteria and change-approval owner

What changes the price

Price depends on the work at each site, repeatability of the kit, access windows, shipping needs and the number of approved return visits. Separate program coordination, field labor, materials and exceptional site work so a low unit price does not conceal unfinished scope.

SRS performs the approved physical installation. The customer or its designated specialists own design, device configurations, network changes and operational acceptance. Application development, software releases, subscriptions and ongoing monitoring are not implied by a rollout work order.

Make acceptance part of the work order

Pilot gate
Review a representative site's physical inventory, agreed installation tests and exceptions separately from the customer's application and network acceptance.
Wave readiness
Release each site after access, power readiness, material receipt and the customer's remote approval contact are confirmed.
Closeout
Tie photos, test results and remaining exceptions to a named site and acceptance owner.
Download the scope worksheetDownload the vendor scorecard

Compare the evidence behind each proposal

Use these checks with the downloadable scorecard. Record the bidder's evidence and any exclusions before comparing price.

Technology deployment services vendor evaluation criteria
CheckEvidence to request
Repeatable scopeA sample site work order with exclusions and readiness requirements.
Exception controlA documented hold, approval and return-visit process.
Acceptance recordA sample device or location record distinguishing installed, awaiting customer checks, accepted and blocked work.
Request a budget estimate

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SRS Networks is a nationwide IT infrastructure deployment partner headquartered in South San Francisco, California, deploying multi-site technology programs for enterprises and channel partners across the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii since 1996. That is 900+ multi-site programs and 10,000+ sites in 30 years, run from 6 offices in 4 states with West Coast and East Coast staging facilities.

This page is the program view. The network layer lives on multi-site network deployment, the cabling layer on multi-site cabling rollouts, and the account structure — onboarding, dedicated program team, standing rate card — on national accounts.

Nationwide rollout installers need a release plan for every site

Installation services nationwide combine field crews with the decisions that make them productive: a released scope, a ready site, a complete kit and an acceptance owner. SRS coordinates in-house W-2 field leads and vetted subcontractors under the agreed program. West Coast and East Coast staging facilities support the site-wave schedule.

Illustrative restaurant scope: a franchise refresh may join POS drops, kitchen display connections, AP replacement and digital menu board installation. Restaurant IT installers need the approved service window, configuration contact, application test and rollback decision for each site. This is a planning example, not a customer deployment claim.

Physical shelving, merchandise displays, counters and kiosk structures belong in the fixture installation scope. The technology program coordinates their power and data dependencies when included. For food-service operating constraints, use the restaurant deployment requirements.

Coordinate the commercial site types in your program

The wave model, the staging discipline, and the closeout package are the same in each environment. What changes is the work window, the vendor-security paperwork, and the materials kit. Corporate office programs that are tenant-improvement work rather than relocations run through tenant improvement IT; the full vertical list is on the industries hub.

Store rollouts

New store openings, remodels, and chainwide refreshes: POS, back-of-house network, ceiling cameras, WiFi. Plan overnight or pre-open work around the store's approved access window, application tests and reopening decision.

National retail rollouts

Branch rollouts

Branch network, teller and drive-thru cabling, cameras, and access control. Confirm the bank's vendor-security, background-check and badging requirements before assigning crews and releasing the site schedule.

Banking and finance deployments

Warehouse and DC rollouts

Approved MDF/IDF installation, AP mounting and dock-door or workstation cabling across a distribution network. Define safe access around active material handling. The customer's wireless owner sets RF requirements and accepts scanner behavior.

Logistics and 3PL deployments

Campus rollouts

Approved building copper/fiber cabling, IDF equipment installation, classroom and office drops, and specified AP mounts. Release each building against its access, pathway and power requirements. Any outside-plant installation needs a project-specific approved scope.

Campus network deployment

Corporate office rollouts

New floors, relocations and tenant improvements across a multi-office footprint: approved cabling, equipment mounting and physical connections. The customer's designers and system owners retain engineering, software settings and operational acceptance.

Office relocation IT

Restaurant rollouts

Drive-thru, kitchen display, POS, guest WiFi, and cameras across a franchise map. Agree work between day-parts or after hours, with the operator owning application acceptance and the decision to resume service.

Restaurant technology rollouts

Nine steps carry a program from survey to accepted handoff

Define these installation and acceptance responsibilities before the pilot. The detail behind each step is on how we deploy; the portal that carries the status, photos, and closeouts is the Project Command Center.

01

Site survey and readiness

Define the survey evidence each site needs before release: permitted MDF/IDF photos, accessible pathways, power-readiness confirmation, ceiling conditions and access or badging rules. Record who supplied each observation and which areas remain unverified. A blocked site gets a readiness owner and a release decision before dispatch; an old survey does not establish that today's installation area is ready.

02

Approved standard and site-specific work orders

Use the customer's approved design and bill of materials to define a repeatable physical installation for each site type. Record jack colors, faceplates, labeling and device positions in the work order, then reconcile each site's kit against that version. A different ceiling or equipment room may need an approved exception; repeating the standard does not mean pretending every building or kit is identical.

03

Pilot sites before the first wave

Agree which representative site types need a pilot before releasing repeated work. Compare the installed scope and records with the approved plan, capture missing material or access assumptions, and resolve exceptions with the customer. Keep physical completion separate from the operator's application and network checks. The program owner accepts the revised work package and defines the gate for the next wave.

04

Wave calendar and program reporting

Build the wave calendar from released sites, available crews and named receiving contacts. Agree reporting fields and cadence before the pilot, using the Project Command Center to retain site progress and exceptions. Distinguish installed, awaiting customer checks, accepted and blocked locations. Confirm any export format or ticketing handoff in the agreement rather than assuming a particular automation or API integration is included.

05

Staging and kitting at the West and East Coast facilities

Scope receiving, asset identification, material reconciliation, site labeling and shipping at the West Coast or East Coast staging facility. Name the recipient and delivery appointment at each site. The customer or its designated engineer supplies approved configurations and owns software preparation; staging does not imply SRS authors network settings. Compare staging with direct shipment from the actual custody and receiving requirements of the program.

Our directional staging benchmark is roughly one failed first receipt in six for direct-to-site shipments, compared with fewer than one in fifty after pre-staging. It comes from a few hundred direct-to-site shipments tracked over a year: wrong address, locked dock, no signature, the GC did not notify the front desk, the box refused as not on the schedule. These are historical operating observations, not a guaranteed rate for your program. Review the definitions and limits in our field deployment benchmark methodology. The receiving, kitting, and chain-of-custody detail is on equipment staging and logistics.

06

Coordinated field execution

SRS coordinates in-house W-2 field leads with a vetted subcontractor bench. Confirm the assigned lead, roster and project-specific qualification, access and insurance requirements before dispatch. Crews execute the released physical work and record deviations against the site work order. The customer's engineer authorizes network changes, while the site operator controls protected work areas and the decision to reopen them.

07

Exceptions and change control

When a site does not match the survey — locked IDF, missing power, a pathway that is not there — the crew lead records the exception with photos in the Project Command Center. The project manager assigns the correction owner and records the hold, revised schedule or proposed change. A change order is priced from the unit rate schedule signed with the MSA, and work beyond the signed SOW waits for approval. Change orders roll up in the Project Command Center so you can review the aggregate adds across the program.

08

Per-site closeout package

Closeout is a per-site package defined at the pilot. For the installed scope, agree the as-built drawings, port-to-panel schedules, copper/fiber test results, device inventory with serial numbers, rack/device photos and labeling schedule. Record unresolved exceptions and their owners; the designated acceptance owner signs off against the agreed criteria. The package uses one format from the pilot site to the last site and is yours to keep.

Define the record fields and review responsibilities with network as-built documentation and closeout requirements. Use that checklist to agree the pilot package before repeating it across the wave.

09

Installation handoff and follow-up field work

Identify the operator receiving the accepted installation and assign outstanding tasks before handover. Any follow-up physical visit needs an agreed work order, access window and completion evidence. The customer's designated providers retain network administration, applications, monitoring and operational service commitments; completing a rollout does not transfer those responsibilities to the installation crew.

Post-program changes — a new endcap, a relocated office, an added camera — run from the same unit rate schedule and the same site records through moves, adds, and changes.

It runs in the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii, under one MSA

One MSA and one rate structure cover every state. Alaska and Hawaii run through the Anchorage, Fairbanks, Honolulu, and Kahului markets. Use the same approved program standard while recording each site's shipping, access and local readiness requirements. Those dependencies belong on the wave schedule; design changes remain with the customer's engineering owner. Work is coordinated from South San Francisco HQ and offices in Salinas, Pasadena, Boise, Boston, and Dallas. The market-by-market list is on coverage across the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii.

Two buyers run the same program

Enterprises hold the MSA directly. Channel partners hold it on behalf of their client. The crews, the staging, and the closeout do not change.

Enterprise programs, direct

A program office at a retailer, bank, 3PL, health system, or multi-office firm holds the MSA. One program manager owns the account; site schedulers, regional field leads, and closeout reviewers report to them, so you never re-explain your standards to a new project manager mid-program. Your program office sees what our program office sees in the Project Command Center.

How a national account is structured

Channel partners, under your brand

Registered deals are locked to you and non-solicitation of your end client is written into the MSA. Agree hardware supply, purchasing and custody in the project work order. Crews follow your authorized branding and contact rules, closeout uses your agreed template, and direct end-client inquiries route back to the channel partner under the engagement terms.

White-label deployment terms

The commercial terms fit on one card

Payment terms and billing milestones are specified in the signed agreement. Identify who supplies and purchases cable, panels, switches and APs, with custody and receiving responsibilities assigned in the work order. Agree the site-type rate schedule and change-order terms before release. W-9, COI, MSA and NDA templates are available from partners@srsnetworks.com.

Published per-site ranges, program-management percentages, and contingency guidance are on the multi-site IT deployment cost page, and the same numbers appear on every SRS pricing page.

When SRS is not the right rollout company

For a few drops at one building, a nearby installer may be the more economical choice when you do not need program coordination. Compare the actual access, custody and documentation requirements before adding staging or a wave-management layer. If you need independent network engineering, application development or ongoing managed operations, assign those roles to the responsible specialists.

A smaller footprint can still need coordinated installation when sites span states, depend on shared customer change windows or must repeat an approved standard later. Scope that need from the site list rather than applying an assumed minimum count.

Straight answers on nationwide rollout programs

The questions program offices and channel partners ask before the MSA is signed.

A nationwide technology rollout coordinates physical installation under customer-approved designs across business locations. A program uses released site work orders, defined material custody, a wave calendar and consistent acceptance records, with site-specific exceptions visible. The customer's specialists retain engineering, software settings and operating decisions. SRS Networks has delivered 900+ programs across 10,000+ sites since 1996.

Send the site list. Get a schedule model back.

Send your site list, technology scope and target completion date to partners@srsnetworks.com or call (866) 224-3636. Cheryl Tatham, Director of Partner Services, coordinates intake. We review access windows, staging responsibilities and pilot acceptance requirements before proposing a schedule and estimate.

partners@srsnetworks.com · (866) 224-3636