LA CCTV Supply · SCIF & SAPF
The specification, the drawing, the purchase order and the training.
Secure-facility work fails on paperwork and sequence far more often than on hardware. We do the four things that happen before and after the install — and we are candid about the one thing we do not do.
01 What we do
Four things, in the order they actually happen.
Advice first, product third. That order is deliberate: a bill of material written before the requirements are settled is the most expensive document on the project.
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Consulting & requirements
Read the drivers before anyone draws anything: ICD 705 and the IC Tech Spec, UFC 4-010-05 on DoD work, UL 2050 Extent 3 for the IDS, 32 CFR Part 117 where the NISPOM applies. We tell you which document governs which decision, and which decisions are your AO’s alone.
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System design
Security narrative, device schedules and counts, riser and single-line diagrams, head-end and IDF planning, storage and bandwidth math, and performance specifications a contractor can actually bid against.
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Equipment & procurement
Spec-matched bills of material, quoting, lead times, staging and drop-ship, warranty and RMA handling, and federal purchasing support including Section 889 screening. We sell the parts; we do not manufacture them.
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Training
The public SCIF and SAPF material is free and complete at the public level. Beyond that: tailored sessions on site, live online or as a packaged reading path, for owners’ staff, general contractors and installing crews.
02 What we do not do
The limits are the reason the advice is worth having.
A firm that installs has a reason to specify what it is good at installing. A firm that manufactures has a reason to specify its own product. We do neither — and we would rather you knew that before the first meeting than after the first invoice.
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We are not an installing contractor.
We hold no CSLB licence and we do not bid installation. Your licensed contractor installs. The one exception is small work under $1,000 all-inclusive that requires no building permit — that we are happy to handle directly.
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We do not manufacture anything.
No doors, no shielding, no modular enclosures, no acoustic assemblies. That means we have nothing to protect when we tell you a product is wrong for your job.
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We cannot be your FSO.
Under the NISPOM a Facility Security Officer is a cleared employee of the cleared entity. We can train your FSO and help build the programme documentation; we cannot hold the role.
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We do not accredit anything — and neither does any product.
No product is “ICD 705 certified.” Accreditation is your Accrediting Official’s decision. Anyone promising you that outcome is selling something they cannot deliver.
Our scope, 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.
03 How a project runs
Requirements, then drawings, then parts, then people.
Tell us the driver
Which agency, which document set, whether a CTTA is involved, and what stage you are at. If you do not know yet, that is a normal answer — establishing it is the first thing we help with.
Requirements before drawings
We write down what governs, what is delegated to your AO, and what is genuinely open. Most rework on these projects comes from skipping this step.
Design to bid
Narrative, schedules, diagrams and performance specifications, in a form your contractor can price and your AO can review.
Equipment against the spec
We quote and supply against the design we wrote, with lead times stated honestly. If something is on a long lead you hear it before it is on a schedule, not after.
Train the people who live with it
The crew installing it, the staff operating it, and the officer who has to answer for it at inspection.
04 Read it before you buy anything
The public material is free, cited, and the same material we teach from.
We publish it because these projects go better when the general contractor, the electrician and the owner’s security officer have all read the same thing. It is deliberately enough to understand the complexity — not enough to finish the design.
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SCIF & SAPF security
The flagship explainer: perimeter, penetrations, acoustics, intrusion detection, access control, RED/BLACK and TEMPEST — with seven interactive labs and a 3D explorer.
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SCIF Answers
The searchable knowledge base: cited sections across nineteen modules, a full glossary, and a reference library of the governing documents with their current versions.
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Free downloads
The primer, the RED/BLACK field guide, the briefing deck, the project readiness questionnaire and the installer quick reference.
FAQ
The questions that decide whether we are a fit
Answered plainly, including the ones where the answer is no.
Read the full FAQAre you a licensed contractor?
No. LA CCTV Supply holds no CSLB licence and is not an installing contractor — installation is performed by your licensed contractor. The single exception is small work where the total price for labour, materials and everything else is under $1,000, the work requires no building permit, and it is not part of a larger project (California Business & Professions Code §7048). We are happy to assist within that limit, and we will tell you plainly when a job falls outside it.
Do you build SCIFs?
No. We do the specification, the drawing, the purchase order and the training. The construction is your contractor’s, and on an accredited facility the design is your Accrediting Official’s to approve. We are frequently the people who write what the contractor then builds.
Can you work outside California?
Yes. Consulting, design, procurement support and training are not contracting and are not licensed in any state — that work travels nationwide. The under-$1,000 hands-on exception is a California statute and exists only in California.
Do you sell the equipment you specify?
Yes, and we say so up front rather than claiming an independence we do not have. What we are independent of is any single manufacturer: we hold no exclusive lines, and the design is written before the bill of material, not after it.
What does it cost to start?
The published material costs nothing and is the same material we teach from — read it first. If a conversation is still useful after that, it usually starts with a scope call rather than a proposal.
Tell us what stage you are at.
The agency, the document set, whether a CTTA is involved, and what has already been decided. If the honest answer is that the free material covers what you need, we will say so.
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