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The Port of Seattle RFP is a $4.1M access-control modernization across Terminals 5 and 18, a marine cargo facility with controlled vehicle entry points, pedestrian gates, and perimeter fencing along active waterfront berths. The scope aligns with vehicle barriers at truck ingress lanes, surveillance camera arrays covering container yards and berth approaches, and vehicle monitoring for credentialed driver verification. Terminal facilities operate 24/7 with shift handoffs and contractor traffic surges, creating persistent surveillance and access-validation requirements rather than episodic project-phase coverage. The RFP posted April 22 on SAM.gov with a May 22 response deadline, a 30-day window. This is pre-award solicitation stage, the optimal timing tier for influencing security line-item specification before vendor lock. The Port of Seattle procures under public-agency rules with formal proposal structure and typically weighted evaluation criteria favoring prior terminal or critical-infrastructure references. Seattle branch sits 1.2 miles from the port complex, inside the coverage radius with no warm-customer cross-pollination path available. The recommended first move is a call to the Port's facilities security director or the RFP's named point of contact (typically a procurement officer with a technical advisor) proposing a walk-through of Terminals 5 and 18 to map vehicle-flow choke points and camera sight-line constraints before the May 22 deadline.