Pathfinder / zedcor / leads / Cook County jail facility upgrade
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The Cook County Cermak campus RFP is a $6.4M perimeter and intrusion-detection upgrade on a correctional facility footprint. The scope centers perimeter security and surveillance camera arrays, which sit in Zedcor's core capability set. Correctional facilities demand redundant sensor coverage, continuous recording, and integration with existing access-control infrastructure. The project value and declared scope confirm this is a full-system replacement, not a patch-and-upgrade. The RFP posted April 22 on SAM.gov with a response deadline of May 26, which leaves 34 days to proposal submission. Cook County correctional procurement typically requires bonding, prevailing-wage compliance, and a union-workforce roster. The RFP stage means the security line item is open and the county is actively evaluating bids. This is optimal timing, the first-best window in the buying cycle. Chicago branch is 3.3 miles from the Cermak campus, inside the coverage radius. The recommended first move is to pull the full solicitation package from SAM.gov, confirm the bonding and labor requirements, and contact the county's facilities procurement office (the issuing contact is in the SAM record) to request a pre-bid walk-through. No warm-intro path exists in the current customer base. The buying contact is the county facilities director or the correctional-security procurement officer named in the solicitation.