It's priced per drop, not per project
Cabling bids are built around the number of "drops" — each individual cable run from a wall jack or access point back to the rack — not a flat project fee. A 10-drop office buildout and a 60-drop warehouse retrofit scale roughly linearly, with labor as the dominant cost, not materials.
What drives the price per drop
Cat6 vs. Cat6A cable, whether runs go through open ceiling or require conduit/fire-stopping, drop length, and whether it's new construction or a retrofit behind finished walls all move the number. Retrofits cost more because of the labor to fish cable without tearing out drywall.
Rough ranges
As a sanity check: straightforward open-ceiling Cat6 drops in an existing office often run in the low-to-mid hundreds per drop including termination and testing; conduit runs, plenum-rated cable, or tight retrofit access can push that meaningfully higher. Any bid worth trusting breaks this out per drop, not as a single lump number.
Don't forget the rack
Cabling is only half the job. Patch panels, a properly labeled rack, and a switch sized for your port count and PoE budget (cameras and access points draw power over the same cable) all belong in the same quote — otherwise you're back out to bid again in six months.
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