Success in San Mateo - AVaaS Case Study

Starting in 2012, the San Mateo Union High School District (SMUHSD) contracted for renovations at six campuses including refreshing eight theaters. PCD was successful in being awarded some of the projects as a part of the capital construction contracts.

In 2019, PCD was contacted to update the AV systems at all eight theaters at the SMUHSD and completed the upgrades as part of our AV as a Service (AVaaS) program. The opportunity for AVaaS came after years of solid customer service, led by John Rudolph and the PCD field staff. When it was time to upgrade the theater video projection systems, SMUHSD was comfortable with PCD’s history of quality service and reached out to John directly. PCD was able to offer AVaaS through GreatAmerica Financial Services.

AVaaS allows PCD to offer a different approach to AV projects by including Upgrades and Service as part of a budgeted monthly fee. Because of this, SMUHSD did not have to produce capital funds for the upgrades. An eight theater project at six different jobsites could have taken years to complete if the District had to secure capital funding; PCD was able to complete the AVaaS upgrades at all eight theaters within months through the streamlined AVaaS process. SMUHSD was able to get the much needed video system upgrades their theaters required to remain competitive and to maximize revenues. The AVaaS process allows clients to set up operational expenses and receive ongoing maintenance / servicing of the system in a monthly payment.

Testimonials:

"The projector is great. The switch between the sync and the screen is probably the most amazing thing to ever happen to me. HDMI with audio is great. I like how PCD setup the Crestron pages within the previous programming, and the addition of the iPad control is going to be huge for efficiency. I mean really, overall [AVaaS] is everything we have needed for a long time to be functional." - San Mateo Union High School District

“It was a pleasure to work with PCD on this [AVaaS] project. The customer was able to upgrade a total of 8 theaters across the district without an up-front capital expense. Thanks to PCD and their AVaaS strategy the students of San Mateo have state of the art facilities and it didn't "break the bank" for the school district.”
- GreatAmerica

“PCD has come up in conversation twice in the last month. Congratulations on the project you won with Great America’s help; they love how you leveraged them to start an AVaaS offering and then I just read the article from NSCA. Sounds like some great things are happening there. Well done.”
- Solutions360