Same budget. More layers.

The number your C-suite asks for.

Your guard bill goes up every year, and the budget is already in the red. Enter your building and your guard spend. Get the build budget, the payback in months and the fifteen-second pitch to carry upstairs, at no cost. Buyer side first.

The budget

Price the security build.

Building size

square feet

Example shown: a 250,000 square foot building. Type your own.

Pick the package you will take upstairs. Good Cameras, card access doors, 30 days of video. $1.80 a square foot $450,000 Plan up to $517,500 Better Good, plus turnstiles, live monitoring and 60 days of video. $2.00 a square foot $500,000 Plan up to $575,000 Best Better, plus license plate readers and 90 days of video. $2.05 a square foot $512,500 Plan up to $589,375

Budgetary numbers, before tax. A site assessment sets the final scope.
"Plan up to" adds 15% for the unforeseen. Pricing is line by line, and unused parts and labor come back as credits.
Yard gates and other site work are quoted separately.

The payback

See when it pays for itself.

Executives do not buy cameras. They buy payback. Put in your own two numbers.

Guard spend a month, today

Guard spend a month, after the build

After the build means the guards you keep, plus live monitoring. Use your best estimate. A site assessment sets the real number.

Enter both guard numbers to see the payback.

Payback uses the package you picked, before tax, at a flat guard rate. If your guard rate keeps rising, the build pays back sooner.

The pitch

Say this in fifteen seconds.

Our guard bill goes up every year.

The same budget pays for a full security build in [your payback] months, and what it gives back funds more layers.

One business partner, on our side of the table. The decision today: pick the package.

The moment

Timing is half the ask.

The wrong moment: Monday morning, after a Georgia Bulldogs loss.
The right moment: Friday at 11:00 AM, before golf.

Learn your executive's week before you ask for a dollar.
Lead with one number: the payback in months.
A no today is not a no forever. Fine-tune the numbers and ask again.

The record. At SAIA I had a big presentation built. I threw it away and kept it real: the guard bill was going to go up, forever. I asked our CFO for a fixed sum and told him to fire me if it did not work. He gave me the money. Most projects paid back in 18 to 21 months, and guard spend held at its 2012 level through 2021, after 18 new Northeast terminals.

The questions

Be ready for these.

From the CFO

What is the all-in number?: Read them the "Plan up to" figure. It adds 15% for the unforeseen.
Where does the money come from?: The security guard budget. The posts the build takes over pay for it.
How firm is the price?: It is a good-faith budget estimate, priced line by line. Unused parts and labor come back as credits.
What if guard rates stop rising?: The payback above already assumes a flat guard rate.

From the CEO

Why now?: Doing nothing feels safe. Every month we wait is another month of the old bill.
Are we less secure with fewer guards?: No. Cameras, card access and live monitoring add layers, and guards stay on the posts that need a person.
Has it worked before?: At SAIA, guard spend held at its 2012 level through 2021, after 18 new Northeast terminals.

From the COO

Will the install disrupt operations?: No. It is installed around our shifts: early, late or off-hours.
Who do we call?: One business partner, from the first call through design, equipment, build and service.

From IT

How does this touch our network?: Cameras and card access run on it, so MTC Group works with our IT team from design through service. Doing the structured cabling in the same build adds volume savings.

The easy button

Get your day back.

Most security leaders I know are doing three jobs and running from fire to fire. There is no time left to think about the program. We give that time back.

One call: One business partner, on your side of the table, for design, equipment, build and service.
Affordable: $1.80 to $2.05 a square foot.
More layers: What the build gives back funds more security.
On autopilot: Security bots take the manual work. Your systems talk to one another, so you decide with the whole picture.

When ownership sees the security cost coming down, the next ask gets easier. And you make more of your kids' games.

Thirty minutes turns the number into a scope.

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Jim McDonald, President & CEO, MTC Group. More than fourteen years wearing a badge. Thirteen more holding the budget. (346) 681-2555.