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BAS Buyer’s Guide
For owners and facility managers scoping a new BAS or replacing an old one. Platform selection, the questions your integrator should answer, the traps to avoid in procurement, and how to structure a maintenance contract that actually gets serviced.
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Fifteen pages. Written for owners and facility managers, not sales engineers — the questions to ask before you sign, and the traps to sidestep.
What’s inside
- Platform selection — Schneider EcoStruxure vs. JCI Facility Explorer vs. Powered by Niagara vs. going open. What each is good at, and what each locks you into.
- The scoping questions — how many I/O points, how many operator workstations, what integrations you actually need, and where a “standard” scope leaves you exposed.
- Procurement traps — the deceptively-low bid pattern, the “we’ll figure it out during commissioning” sentence, and the low-voltage sub who’s never seen your controls line before.
- Integrator qualifications — the certifications that actually matter, the ones that are marketing pixie dust, and how to ask about legacy migration experience without getting a rehearsed answer.
- Maintenance contracts that get serviced — SLA structure, escalation paths, what to include on-site vs. remote, and how to write a contract that doesn’t default to reactive-only.
- The cybersecurity crossover — when to bring IT into the BAS procurement conversation, and how to make sure your integrator actually answers to them.
