Task seating that ships fast. How Commercial Office Interiors (COI) uses SitOnIt on open-line projects across New Hampshire and Greater Boston, and which brands it is bid against on the same brief.
SitOnIt makes task chairs the way a dealer wishes every manufacturer did: a short list of well-built frames, a long list of fabrics and options, and a quick-ship program that sends most of the line out in days rather than weeks. The Wit, Novo and Amplify chairs are the ones COI specifies most, and between them they cover a mesh-back standard, a fully adjustable ergonomic chair and a chair that takes a heavier daily load.
Task seating is the line item COI bids across the widest field, because a chair standard is set once for the whole building and then lives with the company for a decade. SitOnIt is usually the professional-tier answer on that bid, priced below Humanscale and the premium brands on the same ergonomic checklist. When the brief is an adjustable, warrantied, eight-to-ten-hour chair for assigned desks, it is hard to spend more and get a measurably better sit.
The other reason is the calendar. In COI's 2025 shipment data, task seating from the large brands ran well past its quoted lead time. SitOnIt's quick-ship program is the backup COI specifies on almost every fit-out so that people have a chair on move-in day regardless of what the systems furniture does. On more than one project it has become the primary chair rather than the backup.
SitOnIt also builds the multipurpose and nesting chairs that fill training rooms, cafes and classrooms, and its guest seating shares fabrics with the task line so a floor holds one palette. The IDEON lounge collection extends that to soft seating when a project wants one supplier for the whole seating package.
Same specification, several manufacturers, one line-itemed proposal. The brief decides.
COI carries the project, not one manufacturer. Every workstation, private-office and task-chair typical goes to several brands and comes back on one proposal with prices, lead times, warranties and finishes side by side. Across five New England projects in 2026 the gap between a single-brand bid and the COI open-line bid on the same scope averaged 32 percent.
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SitOnIt next to its alternatives, with the lead time for each configuration.
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COI is an open-line dealer and specifies from 100+ manufacturers. Authorization, territory, warranty routing and the quotation path are confirmed in writing for the exact brand and product on each project, and nothing on these pages should be read as a standing authorization claim for a given line. COI is the Artopex dealer for New Hampshire and one of 10 RESEAT dealers in the U.S.
By bidding the same specification across several of them. A workstation typical, a private-office typical and a task-chair standard each go out to three or more manufacturers, and the proposal shows the prices, lead times, warranties and finishes side by side. The brief decides, not a dealer contract.
Yes, and most COI projects do. A typical floor pairs one manufacturer for workstations, another for private offices, a third for task seating and a fourth for the lounge, each chosen on merit for that room type. COI coordinates the finish palette, the schedule and the installation so the floor reads as one project.
Those brands sell through contracted major-line dealers, so COI does not carry them. When a client has a quote from one of them, COI prices an equivalent open-line specification against it line by line. Across five New England projects in 2026 the average gap was 32 percent on the same scope.