Open Questions · Who Must Answer What

The 13 experts and the critic raised 141 raw open questions, deduplicated to 44. On Jul 2 the client answered 9 of them — including two of the three blockers (building address, desk wiring) — and those answers raised 3 new questions, leaving 38 open, grouped by the only thing that matters for getting them closed: who has to answer. Tick a question when it is answered — state is saved in this browser. Items flagged W1 must be asked this week (Jul 6–10) or the mid-August go-live slips.

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Is the ₱206,304 VAT-inc budget approved — plus the remaining option calls (cold-spare AP ₱23,000 · AV tier) and the decided recurring internet (≈₱41,364/mo VAT-ex)? The equipment PO must go out this week: the APs and the 10G PoE++ switch are frequently 2–4-week indent (import) items in the Philippines. Note the total banks ₱90,000 (VAT-ex) on reused gear — the 3 reused APs + gateway must be bench-tested now. (The other two former blockers — building address and desk wiring — were answered Jul 2, below.)

Answered client · 2026-07-02

Nine questions closed by the client's answer batch. Each is stated with its decision; three follow-up questions they raised are now in the open groups below.

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Which building — name and exact address? → Johndorf Tower, 12F Units 2 & 3, Cebu Business Park, Biliran Rd, Brgy Luz, Cebu City · local contact: Princess Dacillo, Director, Software Club Phils Inc.
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Wired desk Ethernet or WiFi-only? → WiFi-only confirmed — no desk wired drops, no dock Ethernet; the switch layer stays as designed.
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Which ISPs are already in the building riser? → Both PLDT and RISE are in the Johndorf Tower riser (path diversity unknown — new question below).
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Internet service level? → Two lines: RISE Dedicated 100 Mbps (₱36,864/mo) primary + PLDT Broadband 200 Mbps (₱4,500/mo) backup ≈ ₱41,364/mo VAT-ex — run as dual-WAN load-balance (real-time pinned to RISE), monitor month 1, upgrade path RISE Ded-200 (+₱20,736/mo).
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All staff on Intune-managed laptops? → Yes, all ~150 — EAP-TLS via Intune Cloud PKI + RADIUSaaS is GO (PPSK fallback still staged for day one).
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Guest WiFi + voucher portal + DPO/NPC? → No guest network (at most a heavily-locked internet-only SSID later); no voucher portal, no visitor data collection — the DPO/NPC compliance question is moot.
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Keep Prowatcher or tender? → Keep Prowatcher (probable) — subject to a survey-based re-quote sanity-checked against the RFQ scope and 5-point gate; competing quotes are optional leverage, not mandatory.
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Server-room split-type aircon in scope? → Not our scope — owned by the fit-out/landlord side; stays an external dependency to verify (heat-load analysis ~1,190 W stands — ownership question below).
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5G CPE failover? → Optional — with two diverse wired lines already in the riser it is a nice-to-have day-one bridge, not a requirement.

1 · Paul / management

Decisions only management can make. Most of them gate a purchase order or an application that must leave this week.

The last blocking question. Releases the equipment PO (50% down) — the fit-out package provides cabling, patch panel and rack (₱61,600 saved); a bare-minimum 5-AP fallback stays cheaper but is capacity-thin for 150 staff. PH RMA runs 2–6 weeks, hence the spare. Internet is decided (≈₱41,364/mo recurring) and the aircon sits with the fit-out/landlord.
Decides whether the UCG-Fiber gateway + 3 APs can really be reused, or we buy new (+~₱90,000 VAT-ex) / plan a cutover weekend.
Client, Jul 2: to be settled in a dedicated call. More than ~6–8 cameras forces a dedicated NVR + more PoE ports; pulling their cables now, while the ceiling is open, is the cheapest moment there will ever be — the pre-cabling recommendation stands.
AV wall/ceiling drops must ride the same open-ceiling window as the WiFi cabling — deciding late means visible conduit later.
Log forwarding is table stakes for a cybersecurity group and cheap to configure at commissioning; retrofitting compliance later is rework.
PEZA zero-rating vs 12% VAT changes the real hardware cost; theft from unsecured fit-out sites is common in PH.

2 · Landlord / building PMO

The building is now named — Johndorf Tower, Cebu Business Park — so the drafted 15-point PMO questionnaire can go out today (route via Princess Dacillo). These are the decision-critical items from it.

Sets the true cost and paperwork lead of the whole fit-out; the bond alone can be months of rent.
The ceiling closes in 2–4 weeks; slow plan vetting eats the entire cable-pull window.
Discovered late, any one of these adds 1–2 weeks; the insurance certificate is needed before the installer may even mobilize.
The 4.97 sqm server room has no exterior wall and most split units allow only 15–20 m of refrigerant pipe; building AC is assumed OFF nights/weekends.
With a genset, the planned 1.6 kVA UPS rides the 10–60 s gap and the brownout problem disappears; without one, WiFi dies ~15 min into a rotational brownout.
Only the accredited FDAS firm may legally tie into the building system; the maglock cannot pass fire inspection without the release relay.

3 · Fit-out contractor

The construction schedule is the second critical path next to the ISP. Everything here is one site meeting. The fit-out package includes the server rack, 24-port patch panel and Cat6-in-conduit drops at no cost to this project — the last four questions pin that provision down.

Every cable pull (APs, AV, CCTV, desk drops if approved) must happen before it; this date anchors the whole project schedule.
Sets the cable rating we must buy (plenum vs standard), the AP mounting hardware, and the pull labor — needed before the cable PO.
Concrete meeting rooms need an 8th AP inside; short server-room walls leak hot air and weaken physical security.
Glass needs a maglock with fail-safe design; a solid door takes a simpler, safer electric strike.
Riding under the main permit avoids a separate engineer-signed submission — which costs weeks.
After the walls close this becomes rework; the phase answer decides which surge-protector model to buy.
Confirmed outside our scope (client, Jul 2), but the ~1,190 W heat load in a 4.97 sqm interior room still needs it before commissioning — a named owner and a date remain an external dependency to verify in July.
AP positions freeze only after the furniture/partition layout is final; the furniture spine decides how desk cabling (if approved) is run.
The package includes Cat6-in-conduit with termination, but the cabler defaults to generic desk positions — our C1–C8 schedule must be in the GC's hands this week or the drops land in the wrong places.
At our 10–36 m runs Cat6 carries 10GBASE-T reliably (TIA TSB-155 qualifies Cat6 for 10G to ~37 m), but only genuine solid-copper cable passes — and every link must be qualification-tested to 10GBASE-T, not just certified to Cat6.
Rack size is TBC and PDU inclusion is unconfirmed; the BOM holds ₱3,000 for PDU + cable management until this is answered.
All 8 AP drops terminate on that panel; a panel landed anywhere else means re-termination work and a broken rack layout.

4 · Installation vendor(s)

Prowatcher — kept as the probable installer (client, Jul 2), subject to the survey-based re-quote below — plus the UniFi distributors (MEC, iConnect). Competing cabling bids are now optional leverage.

Nobody publishes PH stock online — it takes a phone call; out-of-stock means a 2–4-week import that eats the schedule.
The January quote was FX-conditioned and ~29% over US list at January rates; the quoted injector cannot legitimately power the chosen APs.
A falling 1 kg AP over a desk is a liability; visible-conduit sign-off must happen before installation, not after.
This is what makes the network maintainable by whoever touches it next — and it costs nothing to demand up front.

5 · ISP(s)

The plan is decided (Jul 2): RISE Dedicated 100 Mbps primary + PLDT Broadband 200 Mbps backup, both already in the Johndorf Tower riser. What remains is contract terms, physical handoff, and path diversity.

The two lines are bought for redundancy — a shared duct is a single fire/backhoe event away from taking down primary and backup together. One question to the PMO and both providers.
PLDT's I-Gate proposal showed the traps to check before signing: 24-month lock-in, pre-termination at 100% of remaining months, 30–45 working-day install, auto-renewal unless cancelled 30 days out. Get RISE's equivalents on paper.
Both providers already have riser entry (client, Jul 2), which usually means ~2 weeks (RISE averages ~1.8) — but get dated commitments; provisioning is still the longest pole to mid-August.
The reused UCG-Fiber gateway takes fiber directly; a telecom-room landing adds an inter-floor riser run that the landlord may require an accredited contractor for.
PLDT's dedicated I-Gate offer (24-month lock-in, 100% pre-termination, 30–45 working-day lead) is exactly why the backup stays cheap broadband — verify the BB-200 contract really is the lighter one.

6 · Cebu ops team on the ground

Things only someone physically in Cebu (Xerxis / office admin) can check or own.

Four reused devices carry ₱90,000 (VAT-ex) of this BOM; a dead one discovered in August kills the cutover. The RF plan assumes 6 GHz (legal in PH, 5925–6425 MHz) actually works.
The moment the gear moves, the old office loses WiFi — this needs a named owner and a date, not an assumption.
100+ people standing in 42 sqm is the densest WiFi spot in the office — the answer sizes that AP's capacity plan.
Printers want wired drops — adding them while the ceiling is open costs almost nothing.
A door-forced or over-temperature alert at 2 a.m. only matters if a named person responds to it.

Sources: open questions from all 13 expert briefs (rounds 1 & 2) plus the critic's 14 fold-in gaps, deduplicated 141 → 40, plus 4 fit-out-provision questions added Jul 2 (44 total); the client's Jul 2 answer batch closed 9 and raised 3 new (path diversity, RISE terms, aircon owner) → 38 open. Related pages: Risks ranks what happens if these stay unanswered; Timeline shows which week each answer is needed by.