AV Design & Integration in Sacramento
Creation Networks designs and installs AV systems for government agencies, colleges and corporate offices across Sacramento, Roseville, Folsom, Elk Grove and the surrounding region. We are served from our Concord office and our Incline Village headquarters, both within a comfortable drive. Sacramento work is mostly public sector for us — council chambers, emergency operations centres, training rooms and video walls — and public sector AV is a different job from corporate AV.
What we do in Sacramento
For a Sacramento agency the work usually looks like this. A design package your procurement office can put out to bid, written so more than one integrator can respond to it. Equipment selected in TAA-compliant or government model variants where the agency requires them. Control and DSP programming on Crestron, Q-SYS or Biamp, configured for a secure network with documented addressing and ports your IT security team can review. Installation staged around a meeting calendar, because a council chamber cannot go dark. Then as-built drawings, training and a maintenance agreement, because the system has to survive the person who commissioned it.
Sacramento region and public sector projects
Who we work with in Sacramento
Sacramento is state agencies, county and city government, fire districts, community colleges and the healthcare systems that serve them. The buyer is almost always an IT or AV manager who inherited three different control systems and is tired of it. The pitch that works is not a longer feature list, it is a written standard: room types, a defined capability per type, and a support agreement that holds after the person who wrote the standard takes another job.
Frequently asked questions
Who installs AV systems for government agencies in Sacramento?
Creation Networks installs AV systems for state, county and city agencies in the Sacramento region, including council chambers, emergency operations centres, training rooms, courtrooms and control rooms. Public sector work we have completed includes Cal Fire, the El Dorado Hills Fire Department, the El Dorado County Fire Safe Council, UC Davis, Travis Air Force Base, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the US Navy Naval Sea Systems Command and the County of San Mateo across four separate facilities. We are served from our Concord, California office and our Incline Village, Nevada headquarters. Government AV differs from corporate AV in ways that change the schedule: compliant hardware variants, a network configuration your security team signs off before installation, a bid rather than a purchase order, and cutover staged around public meetings. Planning takes longer and field time takes less. The paperwork is a deliverable, not an afterthought.
Can a California agency buy AV integration without running a full bid?
Often, yes, through a cooperative purchasing contract — an agreement already competitively bid by one public agency that others are permitted to buy from. The vehicles that commonly cover audio visual work include California's CMAS, NASPO ValuePoint, Sourcewell and E&I Cooperative Services. Whether your agency can use a particular vehicle depends on its own procurement rules, so confirm with your purchasing office rather than taking a vendor's word for it. Agencies also routinely buy AV under an existing IT services contract, as part of a construction package through the general contractor, or below their own small-purchase threshold. Tell us which vehicles you are authorised to use and we will tell you plainly whether we can be bought that way. If we cannot, we will say so rather than waste a procurement cycle. Confirming the vehicle first is often the difference between a project that starts this fiscal year and one that does not.
Do you have an office in Sacramento?
No. Our California office is in Concord, and its published service area is San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, the North Bay and the greater Bay Area. Sacramento is covered from there and from our Incline Village headquarters. We would rather tell you that than list a Sacramento address we do not staff. What matters for a public agency is not the pin on the map, it is whether the people designing, programming and servicing the system are employed by the company you signed with, and whether they can be on site inside a defined window. Ours are, and they can. Both offices are a straightforward drive to Sacramento, Roseville, Folsom and Elk Grove. If your specification requires a bidder to hold a local office, tell us before you write it and we will tell you honestly whether we can meet the requirement. We would rather lose a bid on the facts than win one on a technicality we cannot defend later.
Talk to an AV design advisor
Sacramento projects are delivered from our office at 1001 Shary Circle, Suite 1, Concord, CA 94518, open Monday to Friday, 6:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Call 888.230.3661 or email sales@creationnetworks.net. Design, engineering, programming, installation and support, in one company, since 2006.
