Systems furniture, benching and architectural walls. How Commercial Office Interiors (COI) uses Teknion on open-line projects across New Hampshire and Greater Boston, and which brands it is bid against on the same brief.
Teknion is one of the few manufacturers COI specifies for a full systems-furniture floor: panels, spines, worksurfaces, power and data in one engineered product. The Leverage and District systems carry power through the furniture rather than the slab, which is often what makes a second-generation space work without opening the floor. Interpret handles benching, and Altos is Teknion's demountable wall line.
COI puts Teknion on a bid when the brief needs what only a systems manufacturer offers: panel-hung storage, hard-wired power at every station, a glass wall that can move at lease end. That is a different conversation from a desk-and-screen floor, where Artopex or AIS will usually come in lower. Teknion is a premium-tier price, and in COI's 2025 shipment data its systems lead times ran 12 to 14 weeks, so it gets specified early and scheduled around.
Where Teknion earns the specification is a building with a lot of change ahead of it. A panel system that can be reconfigured by the installer, not the manufacturer, keeps a floor usable across two or three restacks. COI inventories every panel and component at install so that a Day 2 reconfiguration starts from a parts list rather than a site survey.
The architectural wall line is the other reason Teknion shows up. On a New England fit-out, a demountable glass front can replace framed construction on the private offices, depreciate as furniture, and leave with the tenant. COI prices Altos against the other wall systems it carries on the same elevation so the premium is a number, not a feeling.
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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Teknion 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.