Colleges and universities purchase computers, classroom technology, and campus networking equipment from Pace through IPHEC, TIPS, or OMNIA Partners.

Pace Systems prepares campus technology refreshes of more than 1,000 computers at a time in our Naperville, Illinois, lab and ships them anywhere in the United States. For campuses in the Chicago area, our crews also install classroom technology and campus networks.

Get a quote

IPHEC: Computers, networking, AV and software for Illinois public universities
Other contracts: TIPS 230105 and 260202, OMNIA Partners 01-169
Setup stations in the lab: More than 100
Technicians: On campus or from our offices
Installs: In the Chicago region

Refreshes

Your refresh is imaged and tagged before it reaches campus.

A college refresh can involve more than 1,000 desktops and laptops at a time. When the order calls for setup, each machine is imaged and asset-tagged at one of more than 100 stations in our lab, and its serial number is recorded before our trucks deliver it.

Because every serial number goes into your equipment register in the Pace Hub, your asset records are complete before the machines are unboxed. Machines that need no setup ship to the campus from the vendor or the distributor.

Long benches in Pace’s imaging lab, every monitor showing a computer being set up, with a pallet of boxed devices waiting.

Classrooms

Every classroom passes our checklist before it’s handed over.

We design and install classroom AV, from lecture capture across a whole building to the cameras, microphones, and Crestron control in a single room, and our crews do the installing around Chicago.

At the end of the job, you get a closeout package of drawings, serial numbers, and programming files, and we train the people who will run the rooms so your AV staff aren’t left guessing how anything was put together.

University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Lecture capture across campuses

We built the lecture capture that lets Booth record more than 35 classrooms at once and send them as far as London and Hong Kong.

Norris University Center, Northwestern University

AV for an outdoor pavilion and a pub

We put outdoor sound, a 4K camera, wireless microphones, displays and Crestron control into both spaces, and Northwestern runs them as one system.

Campus networks

Campus Wi-Fi installation includes cabling and fiber.

We install campus Wi-Fi and switching on Cisco and Meraki, Juniper Mist, HPE Aruba and more, and our crews run the Category 6 and 6A cabling it runs on, with fiber between the closets and the buildings.

On a new building, the same crews can do the power, the fire alarm and the AV as well, so the college has one contractor to call about all of it.

Daley College’s building, with the college’s name in large letters on a yellow band along its wall, and people walking past on the path.

Daley College, City Colleges of Chicago

Power and systems for a new engineering center

We did the electrical work, the fire alarm, the security systems, the AV and the network for the college’s new 57,000-square-foot center.

City Colleges of Chicago

Extending Wi-Fi in a working school

We added data cabling, access points and protective housings to extend the college Wi-Fi while students and staff kept using the building.

Switches, access points and firewalls

Select Certified Partner

Wi-Fi survey tools

Campus security

Campus cameras and doors go in under our Illinois license.

We install cameras, card access and intercoms on campuses around Chicago under license 127001360, and we can run the cameras and the doors as one system, so campus security works from one place.

For security reasons, we never publish which building has which system or how a campus is protected.

Malcolm X College, City Colleges of Chicago

Cameras and access control for a campus expansion

We installed IP cameras and integrated access control, ADA doors included, while the West Campus expansion went on around us.

Technicians

Technicians and engineers join your IT team by the hour.

They work on campus if the college is in the Chicago area, or from our offices for a college anywhere else in the US. Their time is tracked by the hour. If a refresh needs more hands than your team has, we can place additional technicians for the rollout as well.

How campuses buy

Illinois public universities can order from us on IPHEC.

IPHEC covers computers, networking, AV and software for Illinois public universities, so your purchasing office can order on it instead of running a bid.

A college that isn’t covered by IPHEC can buy from us on TIPS 230105, on OMNIA Partners contract 01-169 or simply by purchase order, and we answer public bids and requests for proposals as well.

Questions

Questions colleges and universities ask Pace

Can an Illinois public university buy from Pace on IPHEC?

Yes, any Illinois public university can order its computers, networking, AV or software from us on IPHEC. If your college isn’t covered by IPHEC, it can buy from us on TIPS 230105, on OMNIA Partners contract 01-169 or by purchase order.

How large a refresh can Pace set up at once?

Yes, we handle college refreshes of more than a thousand machines at a time. When the order calls for setup, each machine is imaged and asset-tagged at one of more than 100 stations in our lab, and if you need people for the rollout, we can place technicians on campus as well.

What do we get at the end of an AV job?

Every AV job ends with a closeout package of as-built drawings, the equipment list, serial numbers and programming files, and we train the people who will run the rooms. Before that, each room has to pass our written acceptance checklist.