A construction company is an office that keeps moving. Estimators and project managers work from the main office, superintendents from a trailer that changes address every few months, and everyone else from a truck. The systems they share, estimating, project management, scheduling, accounting and a mountain of drawings, decide whether a bid goes out on time and whether a pay application gets paid. We provide managed IT services and cybersecurity for general contractors, builders and specialty contractors across the Twin Cities, priced per device at a flat monthly rate with no long-term contract.
Every business loses money when its systems go down. A contractor loses a bid deadline, a crew waiting on drawings, or a pay application that goes out late and pushes cash flow back a month. Every business handles money. A contractor pays dozens of subcontractors and suppliers every month, which is exactly the traffic that business email compromise is built to intercept.
The work is also spread across places that change. A job-site trailer needs internet, a printer for drawings, Wi-Fi for the superintendent’s tablet and a camera or two, and in six months it needs all of that somewhere else. Support built for one office does not fit a company whose offices are on wheels.
Help desk that knows your company. One dedicated technician who learns your estimating, project management and accounting software, your vendors and your people, backed by a team so nobody waits when that person is busy. Remote support resolves most issues in minutes, from the office or a trailer.
Job sites connected. A standard trailer kit: firewall, Wi-Fi, printing and a secure connection to the office, set up so a new site is online in a day and packed up when the job ends. See our network support.
Drawings and documents everywhere. Project folders in Microsoft 365 or your project management platform, reachable from a phone or tablet on site, with multi-factor authentication and ongoing Microsoft 365 support.
Phones that follow the crew. A hosted phone system with an app on every phone, so the office number reaches the superintendent on site. See our business phone systems.
Backups and continuity. The accounting server and Microsoft 365 backed up off site and verified, with a plan for keeping bids and pay applications moving if the office is dark. See our cloud backup services.
Contractors are targeted for one reason above all: money moves, and everyone expects to see a change of bank details from time to time. Business email compromise, where a criminal poses as a subcontractor, a supplier or the owner and redirects a payment, hits construction constantly, and a single wire can exceed a year of IT costs. Ransomware follows, because a contractor that cannot bid, schedule or bill will pay. Our managed cybersecurity services layer the defences: Huntress managed detection and response on every computer and server, SentinelOne antivirus beside it, Microsoft 365 accounts watched for suspicious sign-ins and forwarding rules, email filtering in front of every mailbox, and security awareness training so the person in accounts payable verifies every change of payment details by phone, every time.
Two free checks show where a company stands today: the cyber insurance readiness check and the email spoofing check.
Owners, general contractors and public agencies increasingly send security questionnaires with the prequalification package, and cyber-insurance carriers ask the same questions at renewal: multi-factor authentication, endpoint detection, tested backups, training. We help contractors answer them honestly, and where the honest answer is no, we make it a yes at a published monthly price. Companies bidding federal work that need a named security lead or a CMMC self-assessment can add our vCISO service.
A laptop left in a trailer overnight is a breach unless the disk is encrypted, and a tablet with the site photos on it is a project record. We encrypt every laptop, manage the tablets and phones so a lost one can be wiped remotely, and keep drawings and daily logs in the cloud rather than on the one device that fell off a scaffold. When the job ends, the trailer kit comes back, is reset and goes to the next site.
We price by device, not by employee, so a company with sixty people in the field and twelve office computers pays for the computers, servers and firewalls it actually has, at a flat monthly rate with no long-term contract. See a ballpark in about a minute on our managed services pricing calculator; every rate is published on our pricing page.
We support general contractors, builders, design-build firms and specialty contractors across Minneapolis, St. Paul and the surrounding suburbs, from a family builder to a company with a dozen active sites, with remote support wherever the work is. Trade-specific pages cover electrical contractors and HVAC companies. OAC Technology has supported Twin Cities businesses since 2000 and is audited every year under SOC 2.
Yes, along with CMiC, Viewpoint, HeavyBid, PlanGrid and QuickBooks. The vendor supports the software; we support everything it runs on and the people who use it. If you run something we have not named, ask.
Yes. A standard trailer kit with a firewall, Wi-Fi, printing and a secure connection to the office is usually online within a day of the connection being installed, and it moves with you to the next site.
Two ways at once: email security that flags impostor messages, and training so accounts payable verifies every change of payment details by phone. Most losses we see in construction come from skipping the second step.
We design and support the network. For cabling we work alongside your own electrical subcontractor or a low-voltage partner, which is usually the better arrangement for a builder.
Yes. We map the questions to the controls you have and do not have, close the gaps at published monthly rates, and write the answers with you.
If you are evaluating IT support for your company, or your current provider has never been to a job site, call 952-548-5558 or contact us for a free consultation. We will review your current setup, tell you plainly what we would change, and give you a flat monthly price.
