Groove Technology Solutions has struck a partnership with HPS that puts its managed building technology services in front of the purchasing group’s members nationwide.
The deal matters because the affected customers are exactly the sort of institutions that tend to accumulate brittle network operations: schools, healthcare organizations and senior living operators with uptime demands, safety requirements and thin internal technology teams. Under the agreement, HPS members can use Groove as a single vendor for systems that are often bought and maintained separately.
The covered services include public-safety distributed antenna systems, managed Wi-Fi, phone service, DIRECTV, video surveillance and access control. Groove will also handle design, installation and continuing support for those systems, rather than handing customers a pile of vendor relationships to manage themselves.
That bundling is the enterprise-infrastructure angle. A public-safety DAS is not a nice-to-have streaming gadget; it is building radio infrastructure meant to support emergency communications inside properties where concrete, steel and distance can interfere with signal coverage. Add resident Wi-Fi, phones, television, cameras and door access, and a campus can end up with several contractors and support queues before anyone has fixed the actual outage.
HPS is a group purchasing organization with a membership base that includes senior living communities, schools and educational organizations, senior nutrition programs, county governments, religious organizations, camps and correctional facilities. It was founded more than 75 years ago and supports members across the country.
Nathan Stock, HPS director of clinical and ancillary contracting, said the organization looks for partners that provide operational value, not only lower costs. He pointed to Groove’s ability to deliver infrastructure and support through one team as the reason for adding the company to HPS offerings.
Groove, based in Salt Lake City, sells integrated property technology for senior living, healthcare, education, multifamily and hospitality properties. Its portfolio spans managed TV, Wi-Fi and phone services, smart-building systems, access control, security and the underlying connectivity infrastructure.
The company says each project includes 24/7 U.S.-based support and is covered by its Groove Guarantee. It also cites a 4.9-star average across more than 1,700 verified Google reviews, a customer-service metric that Groove is using to position itself as a long-term operations partner rather than an installer that disappears after cutover.
Lance Platt, Groove’s president and CEO, said the HPS partnership is intended to give more organizations access to property technology without requiring them to run the systems themselves.
For institutions with limited IT staff, the practical question is accountability. Buying a managed property technology bundle for institutions from one provider can simplify support paths, but it also concentrates more operational dependence in that provider. HPS members now have that option on the table.
