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About us · independent since 2009
LA CCTV Supply is an independent security consultant, system designer, equipment supplier and trainer. We have been doing this since 2009, for commercial owners and for the federal government, nationwide — and we are deliberately not an installing contractor. That one constraint is why our drawings, bills of material and training stay honest.
In business since 2009
Nationwide
Commercial & federal
01 Our story
We started in 2009 selling cameras, access control and the unglamorous parts that hold them up. What changed the business was the questions customers kept asking after the boxes arrived — how many cameras, where, at what resolution, on what switch, recorded for how long, and how do we prove it to the inspector? Answering those questions well turned into design, consulting and training.
An independent security equipment supplier in the San Gabriel Valley, serving Southern California businesses directly instead of through a single-brand channel.
Video, access control and intrusion for warehouses, manufacturing, retail chains, campuses and command centers — the years that taught us what fails in year three.
A long run of federal low-voltage solicitations: VA medical facilities, Navy shore installations and airport projects. Federal work rewires how you write a submittal.
We kept the accreditation and the rating because the same people answer the phone in year fifteen that answered it in year two.
Drawing sets, device schedules, bandwidth and storage models, bid-ready specifications — sold on their own merit, not bundled to protect an installation margin.
A public SCIF & SAPF knowledge base, free downloads and structured training on ICD 705 construction and UL 2050 Extent 3 intrusion detection.
Consulting, design, equipment and training delivered nationwide for commercial and federal customers — installed by your licensed contractor.
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The timeline above describes the shape of the work, not a list of contracts. We do not publish customer names, contract numbers or award values, and we will not confirm the details of a secure facility we have supported.
02 What sets us apart
Nearly two decades of watching systems get installed, commissioned, inspected and then lived with. We know which detail on a drawing becomes an argument in the field, because we have had the argument.
How to check itAsk us why a door will not hold its alignment, or why your night images are noisy. The answer should be specific and unpaid.
We carry many manufacturers and are owned by none of them. There is no quarterly quota steering a recommendation, and no reason to hide that a cheaper line does the job for your use case.
How to check itAsk for the second and third choice for any product we propose, and the trade-off between them.
Pixels per foot, PoE budget, storage math, conduit fill, door schedules, submittal packages. We would rather hand you a number with the assumptions attached than a brochure claim.
How to check itEvery quantity in our design package carries the assumption it came from. Change the assumption and we will rerun it.
We teach: security officers, facility managers, IT teams and low-voltage crews. The SCIF and UL 2050 material on this site is the public half of that program.
How to check itRead SCIF Answers and the Security Education hub. It is free, it is cited, and nobody has to sign in.
03 Exactly what we do
Most disappointment in this industry comes from a scope that was never said out loud. Here is ours, in both directions, before you spend a dollar.
What we do
What we do not do
Our scope, stated verbatim: LA CCTV Supply provides security consulting and system design, sells the equipment and trains your people. We are not an installing contractor: installation is performed by your licensed contractor, except for small non-permitted work under $1,000 all-inclusive, which we can handle directly.
Read positively, that is the whole value: we are free to tell you a camera is the wrong camera, that a door needs a different lock, or that the system you already own only needs a firmware campaign and four replacements — because we do not have an installation crew idling in the yard whose week depends on the answer.
04 Where we sit
Two familiar business models sit on either side of us. Knowing which one you actually need saves everybody a month.
| LA CCTV Supply | Installing contractor / integrator | Catalog distributor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core product | An opinion, a design, the equipment, and training | Labour on your site | Boxes at a price |
| Licence held | None required — we do not perform contracting work | State contractor’s licence (in California, typically C-7 or C-10) | None — they do not touch the building either |
| Who installs | Your licensed contractor (small non-permitted work under $1,000 all-inclusive excepted) | Their own crew | Nobody — it ships to your dock |
| Design documents | Produced as a deliverable you own and can bid competitively | Usually produced to support their own bid | Not offered |
| Product position | Multi-line, vendor-neutral; second and third choices given openly | Often tied to one or two manufacturer programs | Whatever is in stock, with no application advice |
| Incentive on “do less” | Neutral — keeping your existing system is a fine outcome | Negative — labour is the revenue | Negative — volume is the revenue |
| Federal compliance help | Section 889 sourcing, domestic-content options, submittal packages | Varies widely | Rarely — the burden stays with you |
| Training | Owner, operator, facility-manager and installer training, plus SCIF / UL 2050 instruction | Usually a handover walkthrough | None |
| Best when | You want the right system defined, sourced and understood — and installed by whoever you choose | You have a defined scope and need hands on site | You already know the exact part number |
Plenty of projects use all three. A common pattern: we write the design and the scope of work, you competitively bid the labour to installing contractors, and we supply the material against the drawing we produced — so the bids are comparable and the submittal matches the design.
05 Standards
We are not a certification body and we do not approve anything. These are the document families our designs, specifications and training are written against — and the ones your Authority Having Jurisdiction, Accrediting Official or contracting officer will measure the work by.
Editions matter more than numbers. Code and standard section numbering moves between editions, and jurisdictions adopt on their own schedule. We cite the edition your project is actually governed by, and where a requirement is set by an Accrediting Official, a Cognizant Security Authority or a CTTA rather than published text, we say so instead of guessing.
06 Work with us
An audit of the existing system: coverage gaps, retention reality, end-of-life gear, cyber hygiene, Section 889 exposure, and a prioritised list of what to fix first and what to leave alone.
DeliverableAudit report and a ranked plan
You know the problem, not the parts. We walk the site — in person or with drawings and video — and produce a design package your contractor can build and your other bidders can price.
DeliverableDrawings, schedules, BOM, specification
You have a bill of material, a drawing or a spec section. Send it. You get pricing, lead times, Section 889 status and a note on anything in the list that will not do what the spec asks.
DeliverableQuote, lead times, substitution notes
Operator and facility-manager training on the system you own, installer training for low-voltage crews, or structured SCIF, SAPF and UL 2050 Extent 3 instruction for secure-space teams.
DeliverableSessions, materials, reference set
Tell us what the building has to stop, who has to watch it, and what the inspector is going to ask. We will tell you what it takes — including when the answer is “less than you thought.”
PO Box 4327, La Puente CA 91747 · Nationwide