Since 1979, Custom has been a leading technology services provider to the K-12 educational community. During this time, Custom has provided technology products and services to more than 300 school districts spanning nine states - from Pennsylvania to Maine. From comprehensive desktop deployment programs, to complete network infrastructure build-outs, to learner centered professional development programs, Custom continues to select and implement technologies and services that enhance teaching, learning, and communication.

At Custom, we couple a deep technical competency with an unsurpassed understanding of the needs and environment of the educational community. In short, Custom knows how to get I.T. done in your school.

E-Rate
The E-Rate program plays an exciting role in telecommunications, Internet access, network infrastructure, maintenance and other essential technology services for the K-12 education community. The program has always been tightly regulated and administered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). More than a decade since it began, rules and procedures continue to be refined. Our specialists come from the education community and are now working at the forefront of the E-Rate process every day on behalf of school districts large and small. We've found that, regulations aside, each participating school district has its own experience planning for, applying for, and implementing E-Rate funds. We're also finding that E-Rate encourages short and long-term efficiency in how districts deploy technology in schools. In more than one way, E-Rate is a great story. In a given year, school districts across the northeast will receive well over one hundred million in E-Rate dollars to improve technology.

Any school district undertaking a technology project that relies on E-Rate funding will benefit from informed help. If you're looking at procedures and how to get a technology project going, we encourage you to take advantage of Custom's E-Rate experts. It will make your process easier. When the applications are approved and funding is secured, you'll know that you'll have a steadfast technology service provider to follow through on your project.

Read more about E-Rate at http://www.universalservice.org/sl/

Infinite Campus
In addition, Custom is the Alliance Channel Partner for Infinite Campus across nine states; Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont

Infinite Campus is a comprehensive web-based K12 student information system with real-time access to special education, instruction, curriculum, assessment, state reporting and data warehousing functionality. For more than a decade, Infinite Campus has successfully implemented its solutions for customers of all sizes managing more than 3 million students in 44 states.

State Contracts
Custom currently holds a number of different local and state contracts - including:

• NYS OGS Services, CMS188A Award
• NYS Product Contracts (click for list)
• MA ITS 33 IT Solutions Providers
• MA ITC 16 Project Management/Integration
• MA ITC 16A Maintenance, Integration and Incidental Hardware
• RI MPA 230 Technical Services
• RI MPA 250 Printer and Computer Maintenance and Repair
• RI MPA 345 Computer Hardware
• PEPPM Multi-State Bid

Custom's Educational Experience:

• Provided Internet connectivity to over 1,200 public
  schools within a twelve month period
• Installed building-wide LAN networks in over 1,000 NYC schools; connecting over 56,000 classrooms and over one million NYC students to the internet
• Installed over 7,000 computers in more than two hundred buildings in less than 6 weeks
• Provided full building wireless network solutions in
  over 900 public schools
  
• Delivered over 50,000 hours of professional
  development services
  
• Provided over 300,000 desktop computers to
  the educational community
  
• Deployed new student management system across a new WAN for a school district involving 3,000 users, 2,000 computing devices and 5 buildings in two months
• Implemented Infinite Campus throughout the entire State of Maine