Design-build audiovisual for Prince George's County public, campus, healthcare, and hospitality rooms, built for scored procurement and federal-adjacent compliance.
In Prince George's County, an unusual share of the commercial AV goes through a scorecard. This is heavily public-sector ground, the county government, the school system, the libraries, the community centers, the new regional hospital, plus the federal-adjacent agencies ringing it, and public institutions here don't buy AV the way a business does. They buy through procurement: a published solicitation, a written specification, and a formal, scored evaluation where responses are graded against a rubric rather than chosen on a handshake. So winning the room isn't about the fastest quote or the friendliest rep. It's about a compliant, well-documented response that scores, and a design that meets the spec exactly. That's a different game, and it's the one this market mostly plays.
So we're built for procurement, not around it. We read the solicitation the way the evaluators will, design to the written specification precisely, and assemble a response that answers every scored criterion with the documentation to back it, so nothing costs points on a technicality. Where the work is federal-adjacent, we handle the compliance that comes with it. Once we've won, we deliver the room the spec promised, on the schedule the contract sets. From there the craft holds: real drawings, a rack we build and prove before it ships, a clean install, tuning, training, and documentation the agency can audit, backed by support that mostly settles without a site visit. Since 2008.
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Every system is designed, installed, and supported by our own team in Landover — never subcontracted.
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Landover and Largo, Upper Marlboro and Hyattsville, College Park and Bowie, National Harbor and Greenbelt.
Mid-Atlantic summers run hot and humid, so equipment rooms get real cooling and outdoor gear gets thermal headroom.
Winters bring snow and ice storms, so outdoor mounts and enclosures get built to carry the load and survive the plows.
Summer storms bring lightning and downpours, so outdoor installs get grounding, surge protection, and mounting clear of the water.
The winters cross freezing repeatedly, so outdoor seals and gaskets get rated for the cycling rather than one cold reading.
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Four kinds of buyers drive our Landover work, and the biggest of them buys through a published, scored bid.
This is the buyer that defines the county. County agencies, municipal governments, public facilities, and the institutions that serve residents almost all buy AV through formal procurement, a published solicitation, a written specification, and a scored evaluation. That changes what a good vendor looks like. We read the spec the way the evaluators will, design to it exactly, and build a response that answers every scored criterion with the backup to prove it, so the proposal earns its points instead of losing them on a missing detail. We meet prevailing-wage and reporting requirements as written, and we document the finished room so it survives an audit. Public procurement rewards precision and paperwork over salesmanship, which suits how we work, since we'd rather win on a compliant, well-built response than a promise.
Prince George's runs one of the country's larger school systems, alongside the University of Maryland, community colleges, and a busy library network, and all of them buy institutional AV built for daily public use. Classrooms and lecture halls get built so a teacher can walk in and run the room without training, with accessibility and assistive listening designed in. Libraries and community rooms need durable, simple systems a rotating staff and the public can operate. We standardize across a campus or a district so a district's rooms all behave alike, and we hand full documentation to the facilities and IT teams who keep them running. This is patient, standards-driven work measured in school years and budget cycles, and it has to hold up to constant, hands-on public use.
Beyond the public rooms, the county holds a real professional base: the new regional hospital and its clinics, corporate and back-office operations, and the federal-adjacent contractors and agencies ringing the DC line. These rooms want reliability, and the federal-adjacent ones bring compliance requirements, procurement standards, supply-chain rules, and security policies that a lot of integrators aren't set up for. We handle both: rooms that simply work every day, and, where it's required, equipment and processes that meet federal-adjacent standards like TAA and Section 889. Healthcare rooms get built for constant uptime, because a working clinic can't stop for a repair. It's steady, exacting work, and being ready for the compliance side is part of what it takes to operate this close to Washington.
The county's private-side commercial rounds out the market: the National Harbor waterfront, the retail corridors, and the dining across Bowie, Hyattsville, and the stadium-area redevelopment. These rooms serve residents and a regional crowd, so audio has to hold a conversation on a normal night and carry when a place fills, zoned so a bar stays off the tables. Hospitality near the water and the big venues swings with events, so systems get built to handle a crowd and reset fast. Screens go where people will actually watch, and signage holds up in busy, bright spaces. Where a venue runs a live event, we build the connections and hand the show to their crew. The goal is a durable room that works every day and matches whatever standard the operator runs elsewhere.
Carefully, because in Prince George's County procurement is the process, not a formality. Public buyers here, the county, the municipalities, the school system, the agencies, almost always buy through a published solicitation with a written specification and a scored evaluation, so a response is graded against criteria rather than chosen on a relationship. We're built for that. We read the solicitation the way the evaluators will, design precisely to the specification, and assemble a response that answers every scored item with the documentation to support it, so nothing costs points on a technicality. We meet prevailing-wage, reporting, and compliance requirements as written, and we track the details that trip up vendors who treat a public bid like a private quote. Once awarded, we deliver the room the specification promised on the contract's schedule and document it so it survives an audit. Crunchy Tech has been doing this since 2008, and knowing how to win and deliver a scored public project is a real part of working in this county.
Different rules at several levels, since Prince George's layers county authority over a set of incorporated cities. The county sets a lot of the process, but Bowie, Hyattsville, College Park, and the other municipalities run their own governments too, so a project can answer to a city, the county, or both depending on where it sits and what it touches. Federal-adjacent sites add a layer of their own. We map that up front, so a project clears the right authority the first time rather than bouncing between offices, and we handle the filings, the inspectors, and honest scheduling so what reaches you is a date you can plan on. What stays consistent across every site is the way your people run each room, one interface and one startup, so operating across the county changes nothing about the day. You run one operation across a stack of overlapping governments, and untangling that is part of what an integrator is for.
Yes, and this close to Washington it comes up constantly. A lot of facilities in the county are federal-adjacent, agencies, contractors, research sites, and they bring requirements a typical commercial project doesn't: supply-chain rules like TAA and Section 889, security and network policies, procurement standards, and documentation that has to hold up to review. An integrator who isn't set up for that becomes a liability. We design to those requirements from the start: equipment that meets the applicable supply-chain rules, AV that lives on the network the way security requires, and a paper trail built for audit. We coordinate with security and IT as partners rather than working around them. Done right, the room passes review and works on day one instead of becoming the exception someone has to explain. It's exacting, unglamorous work, and being genuinely ready for it is part of operating in Prince George's County.
Enough to design for, because the Mid-Atlantic runs the full range. Summers are hot and humid, which cooks an equipment closet with no cooling and stresses anything outdoors, so rack rooms get real cooling and exterior gear gets thermal headroom. Winters bring snow and ice that load a mount and work seals loose, so exterior hardware is picked for the weight and the deep cold, not a mild afternoon. Summer thunderstorms bring lightning and hard rain, so outdoor installs get grounding, surge protection, and mounting kept clear of where water goes. The constant freeze-thaw across the season also works cheap seals loose, so exterior components get chosen for the cycling. None of it is dramatic, but skip it and the outdoor gear starts failing within a year. We engineer for the weather the county actually gets, so a system installed in spring is still fine the next.
Client successes drive Crunchy Tech to become better. Below is how our customers feel about us.
Just do it. Spend the money. It’s well worth it. It’s not worth your time, hassle, energy, and stress of trying to make it look right and do it right when there’s somebody who has been doing it for years and has perfected the craft.
You're a great partner with Florida Hospital and this project will make a difference in Children's Health.
Working with Crunchy Tech was a fantastic experience from start to finish. They handled the sale and installation of all our sound and TV equipment at The County Bar in Aviston, IL, and absolutely nailed it. We were on a very tight deadline, and they not only met it—they delivered top-notch quality and service the entire way. Highly professional, responsive, and easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with the results.
Crunchy's AV Services are outstanding. Staff members are experts, who really extend themselves to find the right technology for helping us reach our marketing goals in creative ways. The best thing about working with Crunchy is collaborating with the staff – they are patient, responsive, knowledgeable, and available.
Crunchy has been great to work with. They communicate well and deliver as promised.
The work Crunchy has been doing is a game changer for this industry.
Being able to reuse the existing structure created a much lower cost for the client and they were ecstatic.
Crunchy has done an amazing job on our A/V install. The sound is perfectly balanced throughout our many zones and the entire system is super simple to use.
Just do it. Spend the money. It’s well worth it. It’s not worth your time, hassle, energy, and stress of trying to make it look right and do it right when there’s somebody who has been doing it for years and has perfected the craft.
You're a great partner with Florida Hospital and this project will make a difference in Children's Health.
Working with Crunchy Tech was a fantastic experience from start to finish. They handled the sale and installation of all our sound and TV equipment at The County Bar in Aviston, IL, and absolutely nailed it. We were on a very tight deadline, and they not only met it—they delivered top-notch quality and service the entire way. Highly professional, responsive, and easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with the results.
Crunchy's AV Services are outstanding. Staff members are experts, who really extend themselves to find the right technology for helping us reach our marketing goals in creative ways. The best thing about working with Crunchy is collaborating with the staff – they are patient, responsive, knowledgeable, and available.
Crunchy has been great to work with. They communicate well and deliver as promised.
The work Crunchy has been doing is a game changer for this industry.
Being able to reuse the existing structure created a much lower cost for the client and they were ecstatic.
Crunchy has done an amazing job on our A/V install. The sound is perfectly balanced throughout our many zones and the entire system is super simple to use.
We don’t sell you what we have. We design what you need. That line is the operating principle I’ve built Crunchy Tech around for the last 20 years. And it’s the single sentence that separates us - and the small handful of firms like us - from the other 97% of the commercial AV industry.
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