Questions to ask a fire door monitoring supplier
Including the four we would rather you did not ask us. Ask them anyway.
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Procurement questions that separate a monitoring product from a monitoring programme. Several of these are uncomfortable for us to answer, which is the reason they are worth asking.
The four we would rather avoid
What happens to the data if we part company. What the failure rate of the sensor itself is. What the renewal price looks like in year four. And what the system cannot see.
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