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Production procurement for film and TV: equipment and vendors bid against the shooting schedule.

A series that follows the credit to a new state rents its stages and equipment in a few weeks of prep, often from houses its team has never used, and Georgia's credit counts a rental only when a Georgia vendor rents it from stock kept in the state. Zinit's AI agents read the shooting schedule into packages, find the houses the credit counts and level every bid on the board's weeks and the credit.

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Example series: the board, and what it booksEight one-hour episodes shooting in Georgia: 80 days in 16 weeks after 8 weeks of prep, one strip for each shooting day.
$113,960more for the lowest lighting quote, once Georgia's 30% is countedThe lowest lighting and grip quote ships from a Los Angeles depot, so none of its $470,400 earns the credit. Leveled on the board's 17 weeks and 8 night exteriors, the Georgia house added by Zinit costs $356,440 after it.
  1. 19,694shoot days

    on location in Los Angeles in 2025, 16.1% fewer than in 2024 and about 46% fewer than in 2022 (FilmLA)

  2. 62%stage occupancy

    the average at the certified Los Angeles sound stages in FilmLA's study in the first half of 2025, against 90% in 2022 (FilmLA)

  3. 39states

    running an active film and TV incentive program in August 2026 (Olsberg SPI for the Motion Picture Association)

Series follow the credits to other states, which pay them only on invoices from vendors they count as local.

Los Angeles filmed about 46% fewer location days in 2025 than in 2022, and 39 states ran incentive programs in August 2026, so a series now often preps in a state where its team has never rented a light. Each program below pays its credit on goods and rentals only when a vendor it counts as local supplies them, which is why one lighting package can cost a different amount depending on the house that rents it.

Where the credit pays, and on whose invoices

The base credit and the rule for goods and rentals, as each program states them in 2025 and 2026

  1. GeorgiaRule 560-7-8-.45, amended 202520% + 10% with the promotion, the rate the example usesGoods and rentals count froma Georgia vendor, renting stock it keeps in GeorgiaAnnual capNone
  2. CaliforniaProgram 4.0, 202535% base creditGoods and rentals count froma California in-state vendor; online purchases must ship from CaliforniaAnnual cap$750M a year
  3. New YorkProgram guidelines, 202530% base creditGoods and rentals count fromvendors registered to collect New York sales taxAnnual cap$700M a year
  4. New JerseyP.L. 2025, c. 8135% base creditGoods and rentals count fromvendors authorized to do business in New Jersey, for at least 60% of spendingAnnual cap$100M a year
  5. New MexicoFYI-370, July 202525% base creditGoods and rentals count froma vendor with a physical presence in New MexicoAnnual cap$140M in fiscal 2026
  6. LouisianaAct 44 of 202525% base creditGoods and rentals count froma source within the state: a staffed Louisiana facilityAnnual cap$125M a year
  7. Illinois35 ILCS 16/10, 202535% base creditGoods and rentals count fromvendors within IllinoisAnnual cap—
Base rates as each program states them. Most programs add uplifts, and Georgia's 10% for the promotion is the one the example uses. New Jersey pays 30% within 30 miles of Columbus Circle. Each program's own text decides what counts, and a dash means the pages read state no annual cap.

Worked example: the lowest lighting and grip quote, once the credit is counted

$113,960 more than the Georgia house, after the credit

  • The lowest quote, shipped from Los Angeles17 weeks × $25,200 + 8 nights × $2,250 + $24,000 freight$470,400
  • The Georgia house, before the credit17 weeks × $28,800 + 8 nights × $2,450$509,200
  • Georgia's credit on the Georgia house$509,200 × 30%, the 20% base and 10% for the promotion−$152,760

Our arithmetic from the example's quotes: $470,400 against $509,200 less $152,760, or $356,440. The Los Angeles house has no Georgia location, so neither its rental nor its freight counts, and the credit is shown at face value, before any sale of it.

A night exterior needs its condors and its tow plant for that one night, so the board rents them by the night and keeps them out of the weekly package.

Who decides a rental package, in the order it reaches them.

A lighting and grip package passes through six sets of hands between the gaffer's list and the purchase order, and the credit depends on what each of them knows about the vendor.

  1. Gaffer and key grip

    Owns the equipment list, and the fixtures the cinematographer's look needs

    Gets from Zinit Their list bid as written, the same models from houses in the state, and a test before anything is awarded.

  2. Line producer and UPM

    Owns the schedule, the budget and the vendor choice

    Gets from Zinit Every package read off the board in weeks, nights and days, with the bids back before prep needs the gear.

  3. Studio production sourcing

    Owns the studio's rate agreements and preferred suppliers

    Gets from Zinit Each bid set beside the agreed rates, and vendors in states where the studio has no agreement yet.

  4. Production accountant

    Owns purchase orders, the cost report and the audit file

    Gets from Zinit Each award with the vendor's state documents attached: the Georgia location, the stock, the sales-tax registration and the business license.

  5. Production finance and the incentive advisor

    Owns the credit, and what counts toward it

    Gets from Zinit The share of every bid that can earn the credit, line by line, before the award rather than after the audit.

  6. Studio or platform physical production

    Owns approval of the budget and the schedule

    Gets from Zinit One leveled table with each bid's cost after the credit, signed off before the gear is checked out.

Five things that go wrong when a production rents in a new state, and what Zinit does about each.

Georgia's rule counts a rental only from a Georgia vendor's stock in Georgia and leaves out freight from any other vendor, and every project first certified there since January 1, 2023 goes through a mandatory audit before its credit can be claimed, sold or used.

  1. The lowest quote ships from out of state, so the credit pays nothing on it.

    What Zinit doesEvery bid read for where each line ships from, and leveled on its cost after the credit, so the lowest quote is never mistaken for the lowest cost.

  2. Each house bills a week its own way.

    What Zinit doesEvery quote converted to the board's weeks from its day rate, the days it bills a week (three at some houses, four at others) and its discount, so the bids compare in dollars.

  3. Prep is a few weeks long, and the team has never rented in this state.

    What Zinit doesFilm and TV rental houses, stages and production services with a staffed location and stock in the state, found in a 103M+ supplier and company database and checked before anyone is invited.

  4. The specialty days get priced after the award.

    What Zinit doesCondors, tow plants and process trailers counted off the board's night exteriors and car days, and priced inside every bid.

  5. The credit is proven at the audit, long after the production company has wrapped.

    What Zinit doesEach vendor's state documents collected with its bid, so the audit file starts at the award while everyone who chose the vendor is still on the show.

Three moves that put the right house's gear on the truck before pre-rig.

A 103M+ supplier and company database, AI agents that read the board and run the bidding, and procurement people who work beside your production office.

  1. Read the board into packages

    The shooting schedule read into what each package needs: weeks for the lighting, grip and camera packages, nights for the condors and the tow plant, car days for the process trailer, and the week each has to be on the truck. Your line producer confirms the counts before anything goes out.

    Every package, sized from the board.

  2. Find the houses the credit counts

    Film and TV rental houses with a staffed location and stock in the state, drawn from a 103M+ supplier and company database and invited only after your team approves the list. Each is asked where every line ships from, and for its state documents with the bid.

    Bids that can earn the credit.

  3. Level on the board and the credit

    The first RFP is drafted in under an hour from the board and the department heads' lists, and it goes out once they have checked it. The houses take the time they need to price, and every bid is leveled on the board's weeks, its billing week and discount, the specialty nights, freight and what the credit pays.

    One table, after the credit, ready to sign.

Sometimes the house in another state is the right call, because only it has the fixtures the look needs, and then your team rents there knowing what the credit gives up. Zinit does not decide what qualifies for a credit, and your team directs and approves every award.

From the board to an awarded lighting package, in six steps.

Click a step. Zinit reads the files your production office already keeps, and every figure belongs to the example series.

Zinit — Example series, Georgia, rental packages

The production's files, already read

  • SchedulingPDF The board, the one-line schedule and the day-out-of-daysread
  • BudgetXLSX The budget and the latest cost reportread
  • DepartmentsXLSX Equipment lists from the gaffer, key grip and camera departmentread
  • Studio sourcingPDF The studio's rate agreements with rental housesread
  • AccountingCSV Vendor master and purchase ordersread
  • IncentivesPDF Georgia's rule and the incentive advisor's checklistread

The board, read into packages

PackageRented byFrom the boardOn the truck
Lighting and gripthe week1 pre-rig week + 16 shoot weeks = 17Prep week 8
Camera packagethe week1 prep week + 16 shoot weeks = 17Prep week 8
Condors and tow plantthe night8 night exteriorsFridays of even weeks
Process trailerthe day4 car daysWeeks 2, 6, 10 and 14
Stages A and Bthe week6 build weeks + 16 shoot weeks = 22Prep week 3
Base camp and trailersthe week16 shoot weeksWeek 1

The lighting and grip package is the one still open. Its pre-rig starts in prep week 8, so the award and the house's Georgia paperwork have to be done before then. The condors and the tow plant follow the night exteriors, every other Friday.

Houses the credit counts

Nine houses invited after your team approved the list: seven with staffed Georgia locations found by Zinit, the Atlanta depot of a national house, and the Los Angeles house the gaffer named. Three bid.

BidShips fromGeorgia vendorWith the bid
Bid ALos AngelesNo: no Georgia locationRate card and rental terms
Bid BAtlanta, with the LED fixtures from Los AngelesYes, except lines shipped from outside GeorgiaBusiness license, sales-tax registration, stock list
Bid CGeorgiaYesBusiness license, sales-tax registration, stock list

Georgia counts a rental only from a vendor with a staffed location, stock, a sales-tax registration and a local business license in Georgia, and the production keeps a copy of the license from any vendor it pays more than $10,000.

Each house's terms, as quoted

Bid ABid BBid C
Day rate$16,800$14,800$19,200
Days billed a week343
Discount50%50%50%
Weekly price$25,200$29,600$28,800
Two condors and a tow plant, a night$2,250$2,300$2,450
Freight$24,000nonenone

Bid B has the lowest day rate and bills four days a week, so its week costs the most. Each house prices the two condors and the tow plant by the night, outside its weekly package, so they are counted on the board's eight night exteriors at that house's own night rate.

Three bids for lighting and grip, leveled on the board and the credit

Bid AThe Los Angeles house the gaffer namedBid BA national house's Atlanta depotBid CA Georgia house added by Zinit
Weekly price$25,200$29,600$28,800
17 weeks$428,400$503,200$489,600
8 nights$18,000$18,400$19,600
Freight$24,000nonenone
Quoted total$470,400$521,600$509,200
Ships fromLos AngelesAtlanta, LED fixtures from Los AngelesGeorgia
Counts toward the credit$0$412,800$509,200
Georgia credit at 30%$0−$123,840−$152,760
After the credit$470,400$397,760$356,440

  1. Bid AThe Los Angeles house the gaffer named

    Quoted total
    $470,400
    Ships from
    Los Angeles
    Georgia credit at 30%
    $0
    After the credit
    $470,400

  2. Bid BA national house's Atlanta depot

    Quoted total
    $521,600
    Ships from
    Atlanta, LED fixtures from Los Angeles
    Georgia credit at 30%
    −$123,840
    After the credit
    $397,760

  3. Bid CA Georgia house added by Zinit

    Quoted total
    $509,200
    Ships from
    Georgia
    Georgia credit at 30%
    −$152,760
    After the credit
    $356,440

Bid B's LED fixtures, $6,400 of its weekly price, ship from its Los Angeles depot because its Atlanta depot keeps none of that type in Georgia, so under the rule $108,800 of its package earns no credit.

Award Bid C before pre-rig

RecommendedBid C, the Georgia house

It quotes $38,800 more than Bid A and costs $113,960 less once Georgia's 30% is counted, because every line ships from its stock in Georgia.

After the credit
$356,440
Against Bid A
$113,960 less
Credit
$152,760
The line that decides it nowBid B's LED fixtures

Shipped from Los Angeles, they keep $108,800 of Bid B's package out of the credit. Sourced in Georgia, Bid B would still cost $365,120 after the credit, $8,680 more than Bid C.

Out of the credit
$108,800
Credit it gives up
$32,640
Bid B after the credit
$397,760

The camera package and the base camp are already with Georgia vendors. Every figure here is the example's own, and the gaffer and key grip approve the package after a test.

Lighting and grip after the credit: $356,440, $113,960 under the lowest quote and $41,320 under the Atlanta depot, with a credit of $152,760.

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What sets the date for each kind of production, and who decides the vendors.

A scripted series is held to its board and its delivery date, a live event to the league's calendar, and a commercial to the air date. Pick the kind of production you buy for.

Scripted series and features, shot where the credit is

Who decides: The line producer and UPM with the department heads, the studio's production sourcing team and production finance.

What sets the date

  • The DGA's 2026-27 rate cards guarantee a director 8 shooting days on a network one-hour episode and 9 on a one-hour episode for a large streaming service budgeted at $3.8 million or more, so the board is set by episode and cast months before the gear.
  • Georgia, California, New York, New Jersey, New Mexico, Louisiana and Illinois each pay their credit on goods and rentals only from vendors they count as local.
  • At the Los Angeles and Atlanta stages whose published policies we read, a hold that another production challenges has 24 hours to book or release.

Where sourcing moves it

Every package bid off the board in prep, from houses the credit counts, with the stages booked before construction starts.

Live sports and events, on a date the league sets

Who decides: The network's or platform's live production team, with its operations and engineering leads.

What sets the date

  • The event date is fixed by the league or the promoter, so the trucks, crews and transmission are bought against a calendar nobody can move.
  • NEP Group ran more than 50 mobile units in the US in May 2026, and it opened its first large remote-production hubs in 2015.

Where sourcing moves it

Trucks, crews and remote production bid by event or by season against the fixed calendar, each priced with its travel and rigging days.

Commercials and branded content, bid on the AICP form

Who decides: The agency producer and the advertiser's marketing procurement, with the production companies that bid.

What sets the date

  • The AICP bid form, introduced in 1975, is the de facto standard for commercial production bids.
  • AICP's 2026 best practices say a multi-bid job is typically limited to three companies unless the agency or advertiser decides otherwise and says how many are bidding.
  • AICP calls supplying a check bid to meet an advertiser's triple-bid requirement not best practice, and possibly anticompetitive.

Where sourcing moves it

Three real bids on the same AICP form, from production companies matched to the brief, leveled line by line.

Post-production and localization, against the delivery date

Who decides: The post supervisor and the VFX producer, with the platform's post and localization teams.

What sets the date

  • The delivery date in the platform's agreement holds, so editorial, visual effects, sound, color and the dubs are booked back from it.
  • Netflix offered subtitles and dubbing in more than 30 languages in May 2026, and its NP3 program works with the localization partners that dub its commissioned titles and add audio description.
  • Technicolor's visual effects and animation studios, MPC, The Mill and Mikros Animation, began shutting down on February 24, 2025, after the group failed to find new investors.
  • UK visual effects costs earn a 39% credit from April 2025, against 34% for the other UK costs of a film or high-end series.

Where sourcing moves it

Post and localization vendors bid with capacity inside the delivery window and a second source named, each priced where the credit for that work applies.

Every rule here is a published default, an agreement's text or a company's own statement. Your production's contracts decide.

Published day rates and rental terms, each with its date.

What rental houses publish as day rates for the items in the example, and how they bill a week, as read in October 2026. The example's condor and tow-plant rates sit inside these ranges.

Published day rates, read October 2026

  1. ARRI ALEXA 35, body or package4 houses$950–$2,500
  2. 10-ton grip or lighting truck package4 houses$600–$1,450
  3. 60 to 86 ft boom lift (condor)4 listings$425–$747
  4. 1,200 to 1,600 A film generator5 listings$650–$1,200
  5. Process trailer2 houses$500–$750

How rental houses bill a seven-day week

  1. Three days7 houses
  2. Four days4 houses
  3. One day, on multi-week film rentals1 house

Three days: NGP Film, CineMechanics, Palm Springs Grip and Lighting, Caribou Cameras, Department Blue, Charlotte Film Rentals and Enigma 3. Four days: Camera Rentals NYC, Talamas, Serious Grip & Electric and Happy Rentals. One day on multi-week film rentals: JML Rental in Savannah, Georgia. Each house's published terms as read in October 2026, several of them undated; a negotiated series package may be priced differently, and each house's own quote decides.

The categories a production rents, and the market for each.

The packages on the board and around it, what each is priced on, the lever on each, and the suppliers the search runs across.

Stages and studio lots in Georgia

Priced onStage weeks, with the build weeks before the shoot

Stages bid with the construction weeks counted, and booked before the build starts.

Suppliers in this market
  • Trilith Studios
  • Tyler Perry Studios
  • Shadowbox Studios
  • Cinespace Studios

Camera rental

Priced onDay rate, days billed a week and discount

The camera list bid as written to houses with stock in the state, and tested before the award.

Suppliers in this market
  • Panavision
  • Keslow Camera
  • Otto Nemenz International
  • Alternative Rentals

Lighting, grip and power

Priced onA weekly package, with condors and generators by the night

Leveled on the board's weeks and nights, and on where each line ships from.

Suppliers in this market
  • MBS Equipment Co.
  • Cinelease
  • Herc Entertainment Services
  • PC&E

Production vehicles and trailers

Priced onWeekly, by the unit

Cast trailers, honeywagons and production trucks bid by the unit for the shoot weeks.

Suppliers in this market
  • Quixote
  • Haddad's
  • Lightnin Production Rentals
  • Reyes Production Vehicles

Post-production, dailies and localization

Priced onBy the episode, the hour or the minute of runtime

Dailies, finishing and dubs bid against the delivery date, with a second source named.

Suppliers in this market
  • Company 3
  • Picture Shop
  • Iyuno
  • Deluxe

Outside broadcast and remote production

Priced onBy the event day or the season

Trucks and remote production bid by event or by season against the league's calendar.

Suppliers in this market
  • NEP Group
  • Game Creek Video
  • Mobile TV Group
  • F&F Productions

Established suppliers in each category, shown to illustrate the market, not as a list of Zinit's customers or partners.

Results from Zinit's work in other industries.

Outcomes Zinit publishes from three other industries, each in the wording it is approved in.

Mining

Saved over 12% across 28 recent RFPs

Retail

30%+ savings in construction spend, 10%+ in other categories

Manufacturing

23% savings across procurement categories

Anonymized case studies, as shown on the demo request page.

RFPs published from

  • Caterpillar
  • Wipro
  • Bacardi
  • JD
  • Cargill
  • Avery Dennison

The same logo row as the homepage.

The questions a production asks first.

Our gaffer and DP have houses they trust.

They still choose the gear. Zinit bids their lists as written, with the same models, to the houses they name and to houses with stock in the state, and nothing is awarded before the department head has tested the package.

Who decides what qualifies for the credit?

Your production accountant and incentive advisor do, and in the end the state's audit does. Zinit collects each house's written statement of where every line ships from, with its location, stock and license documents, and flags any line that ships from outside the state, so the question is answered before the award.

Who talks to the rental houses?

Zinit's AI agents run the event and Zinit's procurement people work alongside your production office. Your team approves every invitation and decides the award, so policies and approvals never leave your people.

We already have studio rate agreements.

Keep them. The house under the agreement is invited, every bid is set beside the agreed rates, and the agreement still applies wherever it wins.

Prep is short. Is there time to bid?

The first RFP is drafted in under an hour from the board and the department heads' lists, and the board shows which packages come first. The houses still need their own time to price, which is why the bidding starts in the first weeks of prep.

The board changes every week of prep.

Then the counts change with it. The weeks, nights and car days are recounted from the revised board, each open bid is re-leveled on the new counts before the award, and your line producer sees what moved.

What about the stages?

Stage bids carry the construction weeks before the shoot as well as the shooting weeks. At the stages whose published policies we read, a hold that another production challenges has 24 hours to book or release, so the board's stages are booked before construction starts.

What about certificates of insurance?

Each house's insurance terms come with its bid: whether it wants to be named loss payee and additional insured, the replacement value the policy has to cover, and any damage waiver it offers. Your production's broker issues the certificate before checkout, and a waiver a house charges shows up in its bid.

Our schedule and budget are confidential.

Bidders see only the package and the dates your team approves. The board, the budget and the cast list stay with your team, and no house is contacted until your team approves the list.

What does it cost?

Zinit is supplier-funded and free to buyers: only the supplier your team selects as the winner pays a commission, the losing bidders pay nothing, and nothing is owed until you award. The commission rates are published openly on our site, and because the fee is tied to the award your team makes rather than to who competes, Zinit earns the same whichever qualified supplier you choose.

What does Zinit not do?

It does not rent equipment, hold stock, sign rental agreements or certificates of insurance, or certify a credit, and it does not replace your production accounting, your payroll company or your incentive advisor. Sometimes the house in another state is the right call, and then your team rents there knowing what the credit gives up.

Start with the next package on your board.

Bring the board and one department's equipment list for a production that preps in the next six months. Zinit reads the packages off the board, finds the houses the credit counts and runs the bidding, with your team directing and approving every step.

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Sources

  1. [1] Georgia Department of Revenue, Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 560-7-8-.45, Film Tax Credit (as amended, effective 2025), via Cornell LIIA 20% credit plus 10% for a qualified Georgia promotion; rentals count only when used in Georgia and rented from a Georgia vendor, the vendor definition, goods shipped from outside Georgia, freight, the conduit rule, the $10,000 license copy and the mandatory audit for projects certified since January 1, 2023
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  3. [3] California Film Commission, Film and Television Tax Credit Program 4.0 Guidelines (January 2026)35% for new and recurring TV series; $750 million a year from 2025-26 through 2029-30
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