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This actually should have been the headline, not the fact that a school is still using some old technology. My guess is that an "approved vendor" has sold them
by downandout 8y ago
This actually should have been the headline, not the fact that a school is still using some old technology. My guess is that an "approved vendor" has sold them on a ridiculously overpriced system and that 90%+ of that cost would go straight to the vendor's bottom line. The hard part there is becoming an approved vendor. There are companies that do nothing other than go around to various county/state agencies and get these approvals. Then they cozy up to every purchase decision maker at every government entity they can get to within the jurisdictions in which they have been approved, and essentially just drop ship drastically overpriced products to them. It's great work if you can get it.
- Declanomous 8y agoI wouldn't be surprised if the new system has some features billed as saving tens of thousand dollars a year. That's entirely possible. My tiny little college made winter break 2 weeks longer and saved 200k a year.
- em-bee 8y agosaved on what? heating? in austria, decades ago they invented winter holidays to save on heating for a week. then they found out that it cost them more to reheat the building after that week, so now they just keep the empty buildings heated.
- tk75x 8y agoThere's a a point at which the off-time is long enough that the cost savings are more than the price to reheat the building. Making winter break two weeks longer is likely to cross that threshold.
- em-bee 8y agothat makes sense. damn! if only the policymakers had realized that, we could have had more vacation.