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For school districts · the one-page version

The paperwork your board needs, and the method behind it.

Security film only works if it stays in the frame. This page is what a Solutions Advisor would leave on your desk: how Epic attaches it, who tested it, which districts will take your call, and how to buy it without a bid.

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  • The largest project in 3M’s history
  • Buy without a bid · 13 purchasing cooperatives
  • Signed district reference letters
  • Epic crews, no subcontractors
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Most campus intrusions start at glass. Standard glass fails on the first strike and the building is open. Attached security film keeps the broken glass in the frame so the opening is not created on the first blows — which is what lockdown procedures are built around. Epic installs it the way the test standard describes, with its own certified crews, and puts every claim in writing.

3,080+
campuses safeguarded
50,000
windows in one Colorado district
7
signed district letters on file
In the order you will ask

What you get, and how we prove it.

  1. 01

    The method, not the film

    Every vendor says “3M.” Epic anchors the film to the frame with a continuous structural silicone attachment so film, glass and frame perform as one system. That attached assembly is what one of Colorado’s largest school districts selected after field-testing the alternatives — see how it is installed.

  2. 02

    A district tested the competition for you

    One of Colorado’s largest school districts field-tested competing films and attachment methods before awarding Epic the full project — the largest project in 3M’s history, roughly 50,000 windows and more than 600,000 square feet.

  3. 03

    Peer districts will take your call

    Signed letters from Jacksonville ISD PD, Killeen ISD, Burleson ISD, Godley ISD, Farmersville ISD PD and Anna ISD PD are on the References page with names and dates, not paraphrased.

  4. 04

    Buy it without a bid

    Epic holds 21 contracts across 13 purchasing cooperatives — TIPS, BuyBoard, Choice Partners, PCA, Equalis and the Texas ESC co-ops. Your purchasing office almost certainly already uses one. See the list.

  5. 05

    The crew on the ladder works for Epic

    Every Certified Installation Specialist is an Epic employee trained and certified in-house to the Epic Method. Film is cut on Epic’s own precision system and kitted in installation order, so campuses are done in days, not weeks.

Straight answers
FAQ

What you are probably thinking

The other quote is cheaper.
It usually is, and it is usually film on glass with no attachment — not the structural attachment 3M specifies and not what the district selected. Ask them to put the attachment method, the test and who the installers work for in writing, then compare the two documents. Our Buyer Beware library shows what the cheaper version looks like two years later.
Is it bulletproof?
No, and no window film is — anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something. Security film keeps broken glass in the opening when it is anchored to the frame, making it more difficult for an intruder to break in. Ballistic protection is a glass replacement at many times the cost, and we will tell you so.
We’ll just do the vestibules for now.
That is the right place to start and most districts phase it that way. We scope the vestibules so the next phase matches — same film, same attachment, same crew — and give you the full-campus number so the board sees the whole picture once.
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