After enough campus projects, the questions in the tender documents start to repeat. Having these five answers ready saves two meetings.
1. Can it link to the existing fire system? Dry contact or protocol, how zones map, and who tests it.
2. Does it still broadcast without the network? Local sources, offline schedules and amplifier battery backup decide what happens during an outage.
3. How fast do you find a failed speaker? Line supervision or heartbeat, and whether it names the classroom.
4. How is the exam listening session protected? Dual hot-standby controllers, a separate amplifier loop and UPS runtime are usually specified as their own subsystem.
5. Who expands it later? Per-point or per-platform licensing decides what the next building costs in five years.
