Keep every education project moving from specification through installation.
Purlieu gives K-12 and higher-education design, project, and FF&E procurement teams one connected platform for specifications, quotes, schedules, purchasing, purchase orders, vendor coordination, shipments, and installation.
Standardize the way your team works, preserve project knowledge, and give every new project the benefit of what your team has already learned.
Built for high-volume education project teams
- K-12
- Higher Education
- Renovations
- New Construction
The operational challenge
The complexity isn't in any one task. It's in keeping all of them connected.
Education FF&E projects produce a large amount of information—estimates, furniture and equipment specifications, approvals, vendor pricing, schedules, purchase orders, deliveries, and documents. Each piece is manageable on its own. The difficulty is keeping that information connected across K-12 and higher-education projects, where disconnected systems create duplicate work and lost context.
Your team shouldn't have to rely on
- Estimates and pricing Rebuilt in a new spreadsheet each time, with last year's version as the only reference.
- Specifications Assembled by hand into PDFs, then revised in copies that live in different places.
- Approvals and revisions Agreed in email threads that the next person on the project never sees.
- Schedules and responsibilities Held in one person's head, confirmed only by asking them directly.
- Vendor information Split across inboxes, attachments, and phone calls with no shared record.
- Orders and deliveries Re-entered downstream, so a change upstream is easy to miss.
The consequence
What it costs the team
- The same information is entered more than once, in more than one place.
- Handoffs depend on someone remembering to send a message.
- Two projects run two different ways because two people ran them.
- Status questions are answered by interrupting whoever knows.
Bring your design data directly into the quote.
Import a SIF file into Purlieu to create your project quote without rebuilding the product data by hand. From there, manage costing and merchandising, generate quoting and installation reports, and carry approved information forward into purchasing and orders.
- Step 1
Design & specification
The design and product selections are developed in your design tools.
- Step 2
SIF import
A SIF file is imported into Purlieu to build the project quote.
- Step 3
Purlieu quote
Product data lands in the quote without manual re-entry.
- Step 4
Costing & reporting
Apply costing and merchandising, then generate quoting and installation reports.
- Step 5
Orders
Approved quote information continues into purchasing and orders.
What that makes possible
- Design work continues into quoting instead of being re-entered by hand.
- Costing and merchandising happen in Purlieu once the quote is created.
- Quoting and installation reports are generated from the same project information.
- Approved quote data can continue into orders without rebuilding the project downstream.
Purlieu imports SIF files, so design data produced in your specification workflow can become a project quote directly.
Project management
Everyone can see what happens next.
Projects run on standardized templates and workflows, with fields and stages configured around the information your team actually needs to deliver education work.
Ownership, dependencies, and dates are visible on the schedule.
When a step is completed, the next responsible person is notified automatically.
Status lives on the project, not in someone's inbox.
- Project templates that make each new project start the same way.
- Owners, dependencies, and dates visible to everyone on the project.
- Automated notifications when preceding work is finished.
- Less chasing coworkers and fewer status updates given verbally.
Quotes & specifications
What the team can do once the quote is in Purlieu.
Whether a quote starts from a SIF import or is built directly in Purlieu, the work after that is the same: apply costing and merchandising, compare vendor pricing, and reuse quote structures and templates for repeat scopes. Quote, specification, and installation reports are configurable and generated from the same project records, including specification books where a project calls for them.
- Costing and merchandising applied directly to the quote.
- Vendor pricing compared in place during estimating.
- Reusable master and template quote structures for repeat scopes.
- Configurable quote, specification, and installation reports.
- Specification books generated from project data where applicable.
FF&E purchasing & orders
Approved information shouldn't have to be rebuilt for purchasing.
Orders are created from the quote and specification information that was already approved, so purchasing starts from the same record the rest of the team has been working in. Order and shipment status stays visible against the project, which makes a delay or a discrepancy something the team sees early rather than discovers at installation.
- Purchase orders created from approved project information.
- Order and shipment status tracked against the project.
- Issues surfaced while there is still time to respond.
- One shared source of project information across the team.
Leadership visibility
A project shouldn't depend on who happens to be holding the information.
The point of a connected project is not more reporting. It is that the work itself produces the picture leadership needs, and the project stays legible to everyone who picks it up.
Know where projects stand
Status, ownership, timing, and risk are visible on the project itself, so a review does not depend on collecting verbal updates from five people.
Give skilled people their time back
Less time moving information between systems, updating trackers, and chasing coworkers and vendors, more time managing the project.
Protect the operation from turnover
Project history, workflows, and templates keep the process with the organization instead of with the one person who has always run it.
Standardization
Turn what your team learned
on one project into
an advantage on the next.
Education work repeats, similar space types, similar standards, similar scopes, similar approval cycles. The value of a defined process shows up between projects: in what stays with the organization when a project ends, and in how much of it the next one can start from.
Reuse what the last project taught you
Specifications, quote structures and templates, and project processes carry over, so a classroom, residence hall, or library scope your team has delivered before does not get rebuilt from scratch.
Protect project knowledge
Workflows and project history keep decisions, dates, and documents with the project, not in one employee's memory or inbox.
Onboard people faster
A defined process shows a new team member how work moves through the organization, and what they own at each stage.
Scale without adding chaos
Consistent workflows make it possible to take on more projects and more people without inventing a new process each time.
Who it's for
Built for teams delivering K-12 and higher-education FF&E projects.
- Design firms
- Procurement firms
- Integrated teams
Purlieu is built for design firms, furniture and FF&E procurement firms, and integrated design and procurement teams responsible for specifying, purchasing, and delivering furniture, fixtures, and equipment for K-12 schools and higher-education environments. From classrooms and libraries to residence halls and campus renovations, teams can manage project information from early pricing and specifications through purchasing, delivery, and installation.
From early pricing through installation.
See how Purlieu fits the way your team works.
Walk us through a current education project and we'll show you where Purlieu removes handoffs, duplicate entry, and status chasing.