Workload spikes
A hospital award, a data-center hall, or three projects starting the same month. Permanent hiring is too slow. Alloy converts fixed overhead into a project-specific cost.
Independent fire & security delivery
The layer between
award and acceptance.
Alloy is a specialized delivery firm for complex fire alarm and electronic security work. We deploy senior design, engineering, and project-management capacity when integrators, electrical contractors, and owners cannot staff the job internally.
The gap
Demand is not the problem.
Experienced delivery is.
Sales-to-ops handoff
Projects sold on incomplete assumptions, thin labor, or unclear exclusions. We run the turnover, lock the delivery plan, and reduce downstream risk before the first device is ordered.
Geographic white space
National integrators win work where they lack local PMs, AHJ knowledge, or trusted subcontractors. We become the repeatable delivery resource in that market.
Owner-side vacuum
CMs manage the building. Rarely does anyone own fire, access, video, and networks across consultants, integrators, electricians, IT, and facilities — until the witness test fails.
48 hrsTypical time to staff a qualified lead
2 channelsIntegrator support or owner representation — never both on the same job
1 outcomeAccepted systems, clean closeout, protected margin
For integrators
Your pipeline outran the bench.
That is the engagement.
Everon, Johnson Controls, Convergint, Securitas Technology, Siemens, Honeywell, and strong regionals do not lack work. They lack immediately deployable people who understand codes, contracts, margins, and field sequencing at the same time.
How we sit next to your team
We are not a competitor for the account. We are overflow, specialty, and recovery capacity — white-label or co-branded — so your operations team stays whole.
- Project startup and risk review before kickoff
- Design and engineering coordination, including shop-drawing quality
- Project-management-as-a-service and fractional senior PMs
- Subcontractor sourcing, management, and performance recovery
- RFI, submittal, procurement, and cost-to-complete control
- Testing, AHJ, acceptance, and closeout
National-account programs
Prototype designs, site-survey standards, multi-site schedules, vendor qualification, KPI dashboards, and standardized commissioning across a rollout.
Project recovery
Behind, over budget, understaffed, or in dispute. A recovery package is priced for urgency because the exposure already exists.
Retainer pods
40 or 80 hours a month. A dedicated design pod. A fractional PM who already knows your tools, templates, and customers.
For owners, developers & construction managers
We protect the fire and security scope from design through acceptance.
General contractors manage structure and schedule. They rarely have deep command of fire alarm, access control, video, intrusion, emergency communication, or the network those systems live on. Alloy is the specialist underneath the CM — or directly next to the owner.
Where this pays for itself
Data centersHealthcareAdvanced manufacturing
Life sciencesLogisticsHigher education
Corporate campusesHigh-rise & hospitalityCritical infrastructure
01 Define
Technology scope, basis of design, Division 28 intent, and what “done” means before anyone bids.
02 Select
Integrator procurement, bid-leveling, and technical evaluation that sees through a low number.
03 Coordinate
Design review, construction coordination, change-order scrutiny, electrical and IT interfaces.
04 Accept
Testing oversight, commissioning, punch close, turnover packages the facilities team can actually use.
Service lines
Five offerings. One delivery standard.
We do not sell “consulting.” We sell documented design, managed execution, recovered jobs, multi-site programs, and owner-side control of the technology scope.
Outsourced design & engineering
Basis-of-design narratives, device layouts, risers, point and door schedules, sequence of operations, cause-and-effect matrices, battery and voltage-drop calculations, BIM coordination, Division 28 specifications, shop-drawing review, record documents.
Contracts distinguish conceptual, permit, delegated design, shop drawings, and sealed PE work. Where a jurisdiction requires a licensed engineer, Alloy partners with a qualified fire-protection or electrical PE.
Project management as a service
The strongest early offer. Scope and contract review, sales-to-ops turnover, execution plan, baseline schedule, labor and subcontractor planning, cost-to-complete, procurement tracking, weekly reporting, RFIs and changes, billing support, field coordination, testing, closeout.
Project recovery
For jobs that are late, over budget, understaffed, missing documents, facing LDs, or in dispute. Premium pricing, short diagnostic, then a recovery plan the GC and owner can live with.
National-account program support
Standards, prototypes, survey protocols, rollout planning, vendor qualification, multi-site schedule and cost dashboards, quality audits, standardized commissioning, closeout libraries.
Owner’s representative — fire & security only
We do not try to run the entire building. We make sure the technology scope is defined, bought correctly, coordinated, tested, and turned over.
How an engagement starts
Forty-eight hours from brief to a named lead.
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Engagement brief
You tell us which side of the table you sit on, what is failing or about to start, and the constraint that matters — date, dollars, AHJ, or reputation.
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Conflict and fit check
We will not represent the integrator and the owner on the same project. If there is a conflict, we say so before a proposal exists.
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Diagnostic
Contract documents, estimate assumptions, current schedule, open RFIs, subcontractor status. A written risk view — not a slide deck of capabilities.
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Commercial model
Monthly retainer, dedicated resource, fixed-fee package, or T&M with a not-to-exceed. Senior PM work is not priced like staff augmentation.
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Deploy and report
Named lead, project controls, weekly status the executive sponsor can read in four minutes. Portal access from day one.
How we price outcomes
| Role | Indicative range |
|---|---|
| Senior project manager | $150–$225 / hr |
| Program / executive lead | $200–$300 / hr |
| Fire / security designer | $110–$175 / hr |
| Licensed engineering | $175–$300+ / hr |
| Project recovery leadership | $225–$325+ / hr |
Ranges flex with geography, credentials, and risk. We do not win work by being the cheapest body on a job.
Engage Alloy
Tell us which side of the job you are on.
Four minutes. We route you to the right commercial conversation and, if the fit is real, a named lead inside two business days.
- No retainer to start a diagnostic
- Conflict check before we write a proposal
- NDA available on first call
Client portal · model
Overview
Active engagements3
Open RFIs11
Devices pending test184
At-risk milestones2
PHX-DC3 Fire + ACS
In deliveryData hall 3 · fire alarm, VESDA, access, video wall interface.
Mercy Tower renovation
RecoveryHigh-rise hospital · missed first pretest, subcontractor default.
National grocery prototype
ProgramStandards + 14-site rollout package. Next survey wave Thursday.
This week
- Mon PHX-DC3 cause-and-effect matrix issued for owner review
- Tue Mercy Tower recovery stand-up with GC and AHJ
- Wed Grocery prototype door schedule locked
- Thu Capacity request window — two designer days still open
| Project | Channel | Status | Next gate | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHX-DC3 Fire + ACS | Integrator | Delivery | Pretest 18 Sep | M. Reyes |
| Mercy Tower renovation | Integrator | Recovery | Re-baseline 9 Sep | A. Okonkwo |
| National grocery prototype | Program | Standards | Wave 1 surveys | S. Patel |
| State U science annex | Owner-side | Bid leveling | Technical eval | C. Nguyen |
- ALY-PHX-CNE-03Cause-and-effect matrix Rev CIssued
- ALY-PHX-RFI-19Riser coordination with electricalOpen
- ALY-MRC-REC-01Mercy recovery planControlled
- ALY-NGR-STD-02Grocery prototype design standardApproved
- Pretest package submitted to AHJ
- Battery calculations verified
- Device 100% test — Hall A
- Interface test — BMS and security
- Owner training and as-built drop
- Final acceptance letter
Weekly · PHX-DC3
Week of 1 Sep 2026Condition: On plan for pretest. Procurement of two delayed speakers remains the only material risk.
This week: Cause-and-effect issued. 62 devices tested. RFI-19 opened on riser conflict at grid D-12.
Need from client: Owner decision on delayed speaker submittal by Friday or pretest slides one week.