• Granite Island Group offers fully instrumented services which utilize highly sophisticated laboratory grade equipment for an hourly fee.
• Low threat, quick check sweeps require a minimum of four hours on-site.
• Typical Low threat corporate and private sweeps require eight to ten hours on-site.
• There is a 24 hour (or three days) on-site minimum for medium threat, fully instrumented corporate sweep work. This is our most requested corporate engagement.
• Fully instrumented, higher threat corporate or government sweeps require a minimum of 40 hours (or five days) on-site for completion.

Corporate Bug Sweeps (within New England)
• A quick, low cost, and low threat "Bug Sweep" involving one small area, office, or an area of a home (inside the Boston/Rt 495 area) normally requires eight to ten hours on-site for completion (plus several hours off-site).
• This type of TSCM service only involves a brief inspection of the airwaves, power lines, and telephone lines for obvious eavesdropping signals, simple TDR inspection of the telephones lines, and a basic inspection of the telephone instrument. This inspection may also include an optional examination of the physical security of an area.
• A "Quick Check Bug Sweep" such as this should only be used when time is limited, or when the budget will not allow a more comprehensive inspection.

Medium Threat Bug Sweeps (within New England)

• A small medium threat corporate TSCM inspection involving 2-3 executive offices, and one conference room will normally requires one to two days for completion.
• A more typical medium threat corporate TSCM inspection involving 3-4 executive offices, and one conference room will normally requires two to three days on-site for completion.

High Threat TSCM Inspection or Comprehensive "Bug Sweep" (within 500 miles of Boston)

• This type TSCM inspection or bug sweep typically requires 5 to 7 days to complete.

Motor Vehicles

• A TSCM inspection performed on a standard, non-luxury motor vehicle will require four to ten hours. Examinations of luxury vehicles, larger SUVs, motor coaches, boats, and similar motor vehicles will usually involve several days at a higher cost.

Recurring Inspections

• Granite Island Group also offers a program of recurring TSCM inspections at a reduced daily rate with a retainer. Typically these inspections can be performed on a random, monthly, or quarterly basis.
• To properly secure a single executive office for corporate or government clients we recommend at least six sweeps per year. These sweeps should be evenly spaced out on a quasi-random basis, including one annual comprehensive (three to seven day) sweep and an annual or quarterly comprehensive physical security audit.

Budget Numbers (outside of New England)

• We offer sweep services to any location within a two-day drive or 1200 mile radius of Boston (except NC), and will typically respond with an entire electronics laboratory built into a truck, and a full complement of sophisticated TSCM equipment.
• For work outside New England, but within a 1200 mile radius there is a minimum charge of 3 days on-site, plus travel time, and related expenses.
• A TSCM inspection of a typical medium threat corporate office in the Mid-West, South, or South East (which involves a two-day drive in each direction) will normally require three full days on-site (plus travel time) to complete. An example of this would be a corporate sweep in Atlanta, Chicago, DC, Detroit, St. Louis, and similar cities located some distance from Boston.

Other Services

• Our firm also provides several related technical services such as high precision time domain reflectometry, cable locating and certification, underground fault location, and sophisticated RF surveys including, but not limited to pager, cellular, PCS, and broadcast coverage area surveys and mapping.
  

• We also have a hourly consultation rate with a 4 hour minimum, which includes: security surveys, threat assessment, network audits, assistance in planning a TSCM program, and so on. This includes non-instrumented TSCM, technical security, engineering, vulnerability analysis, and related consulting services.
  

• We have special rates for law enforcement agencies in the United States, please formally query us via fax on departmental letterhead for details.
  

• Private consultation is also available via telephone, with a quarter hour minimum (Telephone consultations, technical research, report writing, etc...)
  

• All written reports, research, and related activities will be billed at an hourly rate with a one hour minimum.
  

• Granite Island Group is available to assist attorneys and investigators with discovery, coaching while taking depositions, technical consultation, and research for an hourly fee (paid in advance). We can also consult with you or your practice concerning case law and statutes concerning the finer points of eavesdropping laws, and can coach you on how to debunk expert witnesses and find holes and deceptions in their claims.
  

• Forensic identification of a suspected eavesdropping device is available for a flat fee (but only for a successful match). A hard copy report is also available but for an additional hourly fee. To facilitate such an identification simply send us an Email describing what was found (please attach a photo of the device, if available). Please include dimensions of the device, including the wire lengths, battery type and so on.
  

Click here to SCHEDULE A BUG SWEEP, Wiretap Detection, or Technical Surveillance Counter Measures Inspection on a suspect area. Click here to see a detailed ESTIMATE WORKSHEET that will help assist you in determining the amount of time would be involved to perform a legitimate low threat TSCM or "Bug Sweep" on a suspect area. Information regarding our REFERRAL PROGRAM for Private investigators and other security professionals Click here to review our COVERAGE AREA for TSCM, Bug Sweeps, and Related Services. Click here to see the typical SEQUENCE OF EVENTS that Granite Island Group follows for TSCM inspections. (Client requirements and operational security may dictate minor variations).

Travel
• Our services are available nationwide and worldwide, however; we try to maintain a focus on New England (MA, RI, CT, VT, NH, and ME).
  

• All travel time exceeding fifty (50) miles each way is billable on a door-to-door basis (plus all travel expenses including air transportation, ground transportation, and related expenses are to be paid in advance for all clients).
  

• Services provided outside of a two-day, or 1250 mile drive of New England will involve additional charges for air transportation, equipment shipment, and so on. Typically $3,250 for domestic airfare, $300 for ground transportation (airport limo, taxi, or rental car), plus $250-$350 a day for per diem expenses (plus related equipment transport costs).
  

• In special cases we will consider coverage with a portable counterintelligence lab anywhere in North America.
  

• Travel will normally be billed at one half the normal hourly rate (if it exceeds one hour in either direction), or $1.25 per mile whichever is higher.
  

• If you are outside our normal coverage area or we are unable to respond in a timely manner for other reasons, we will recommend another TSCM firm in your area upon request: Recommended U.S. TSCM Firms. We are not at all bashful about sending you to one of our competitors.

Payment Terms

• Terms for all work is strictly by retainer in advance unless otherwise indicated. Upon approval; corporate and government clients may pay 50% in advance, and the balance upon presentation of the final report or briefing.
  

• Cancellation of a scheduled TSCM service will result in a cancellation charge equal to all expenses, plus half of the estimated fee.
  

• All travel time, per diem, and expenses are fully payable in advance for all clients, and are not discountable.
  

• Payment is accepted via cash, corporate or government check, certified bank check, business check, cashiers check, money order, or wire transfer.
  

• All instruments will be held for bank clearance. Checks or other any instrument returned or rejected for any reason are subject to a $100 handling charge (or the maximum amount provided by law).
  

• Payment for all international work, expenses, and materials is strictly by full payment in advance.
  

• All work performed for, or involving any attorney, law firm, court, judge, or other element of the legal profession is to be paid for in full, and well in advance of any services of any kind being rendered. Basically, no work product will be provided until the check clears. Also, we do not work on a contingency basis or any variation thereof.
  

Here are the example costs for a low threat, low cost, "quick check" bug sweep of one executive office or home in the Boston or surrounding area. In this case, we would likely have not been out to the location before nor would we have a copy of blueprints on file, and it would be unknown if this location would have a program of recurring full-scope sweeps. This type of sweep is only an inexpensive cursory inspection, but it is better than nothing. Typically the customer should expect a sweep of this nature to take between 6 to 10 hours, perhaps more depending on the age of the building.

Here are the example costs for a simple low threat bug sweep of one executive office in the Boston or surrounding area. In this case, we would have been out to the location before, have a copy of blueprints on file, and this location would have a program of recurring sweeps. This sweep is quite a bit more detailed then a "Quick Check," but if time and access are limited this type of sweep is better than nothing, and is perfect for periods between pre-scheduled full-scope sweeps.

Here are the typical costs for a more comprehensive low threat bug sweep of 2-3 executive offices and conference room in the Boston or surrounding area. Usually, we would not have been out the location before, and we would not have a set of blueprints available in advance. This type of bug sweep service is quite a bit more detailed then the previous types of sweep, and is an appropriate method to detect not only eavesdropping devices, but also to identify weakness and vulnerabilities which could permit covert eavesdropping devices or activities to be introduced.

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