Lockers as a fit-out package
For main contractors, interior fit-out firms, architects, QSs and M&E consultants. Specification clauses you can paste into a BQ, our lead time set against your programme, exactly what we need provided by others, and an honest account of what can be value-engineered out.
Lead time against your programme
Typically six to ten weeks from a confirmed order, depending on specification and quantity, including sea freight and installation. Work back ten weeks from the handover date to allow for the approval loop, which is the step that actually slips.
- Week 0
Order confirmed, deposit received
The clock starts here, not at the enquiry. If you have a handover date, work back ten weeks from it and place the order by then — the two weeks beyond this eight-week programme are for the approval loop below, which is the step that slips.
- Weeks 1–2
Shop drawings and material submission
Bank elevations, compartment splits, plinth detail, lock schedule and finish reference, plus a material submission with the steel gauge and powder-coat spec. Approval turnaround is yours to control and is the most common cause of a late delivery.
- Weeks 2–5
Fabrication
Standard sizes in standard finishes run fastest. Custom colours add a powder-coat run; made-to-opening sizes add fabrication time. Both sit at the longer end of the range rather than outside it.
- Weeks 5–7
Sea freight and customs
The freight leg is fixed and is why a two-week lead time on a new locker fit-out is rarely realistic. Air freight is possible and the cost shows up somewhere in your price; we will tell you the figure rather than bury it.
- Weeks 7–8
Delivery and installation
Levelling, plinth or feet, fixing back to the wall where required, lock commissioning and numbering. Typically a day per room. We need the floor finished, the wall built, and the access route clear.
- Handover
Keys, O&M and training
Master and change keys against a signed schedule, O&M documentation, spare parts list, and a walkthrough for whoever will run the room. On connected banks, the dashboard handover and the first assignment import.
Retrofitting instead? Changing the locks on existing lockers runs two to three weeks from order and about a day per room on site, with either keyless lock. Where a room is being refurbished rather than rebuilt, that is very often the right-sized answer — see all the lock options.
Specification clauses for your BQ
Written to be pasted whole into a bill of quantities or a tender specification, and written so that we can meet them without argument on site. Every figure here traces to a real build standard rather than to a brochure — the steel gauges, the ventilation, the override and the electrical separation are all things we will be held to.
These are deliberately not written around us. Anything below can be met by a competent locker supplier, which is the point — a specification that only one bidder can meet gets challenged, and your evaluation is better served by a clause that produces comparable bids. Where you want the connected access specified, the last paragraph of that clause is the part that narrows the field, and it narrows it on capability rather than on brand.
Keyed steel lockers
Supply, deliver and install steel lockers fabricated from cold-rolled steel of 0.5 mm to 1.2 mm thickness according to panel and application, with welded or knock-down assembly as required by site access. Finish: electrostatic powder coat, phosphate-free, to the approved colour reference. Every compartment door to be louvred or perforated for ventilation. Locking: cam lock to each compartment, two keys per lock, master-keyed by bank, supplied against a signed key schedule. Internal fit-out: hat shelf, hanging rail and coat hooks to full-height compartments; adjustable shelf to half and quarter heights. Each door to carry a recessed card holder or laser-etched numbering. Banks to be supplied with levelling feet, or a welded plinth where the floor is to be washed down. Bank widths to be set out to suit the surveyed opening; adjacent banks to sit flush without intermediate gaps. Dimensions on shop drawings to be stated width × depth × height in millimetres throughout.
Standalone digital (keypad / card / fingerprint) locks
Locker construction as the keyed specification above. Locking: battery-powered electronic lock to each compartment with integral keypad, RFID card reader or fingerprint sensor as scheduled, operating entirely offline with no controller, no mains supply and no network connection. Each lock to accept a user-set code or credential in day-use mode and a fixed assignment in permanent mode. Mechanical master override to be provided on every compartment so that a depleted battery cannot trap a user's belongings. Battery type and expected service interval to be stated in the O&M manual, with a first set of spares supplied at handover. No provisions by others are required for this clause beyond a finished floor and wall.
Connected smart-access lockers
Locker construction as the keyed specification above. Locking: electronic latch to each compartment, controlled from a controller column integrated into the bank, released by QR code scanned in a standard mobile browser, by numeric PIN entered at the bank keypad, by RFID card, or remotely from the management dashboard. No end-user application installation shall be required. The system shall provide compartment assignment management, timed release, access rules, automatic fee collection where required, and a log of every opening, exportable by the Employer. Credentials shall be cached at the controller such that keypad access continues during a network outage. Mechanical master override to be provided on every compartment. Provisions by others: one 3-pin 230 V socket per bank at the controller position; the controller shall connect over cellular (4G) with Wi-Fi as an alternative, and shall not require structured cabling, switch ports or firewall changes. Supplier to state the annual platform subscription per bank separately in the tender price.
Phone and device charging cabinets
Supply, deliver and install device charging cabinets with individually locked compartments, cold-rolled steel body with toughened glass or solid steel doors as scheduled per row. Standard compartment 150 × 150 mm; high-density compartment 154 × 126 mm where scheduled — the Contractor to confirm the largest device to be accommodated before fabrication. Electrical: one 230 V five-hole socket per compartment unless scheduled otherwise, with USB-A and USB-C outlets where specified; residual current protection on the incoming supply; compartment rows separated across independent circuits such that a fault in one row does not de-energise the cabinet. Doors to be numbered. Locking to be keyed, keypad, card or connected as scheduled. Non-charging compartments may be mixed within one cabinet where scheduled and shall be priced separately. Provisions by others: dedicated RCD-protected supply terminated at the cabinet position.
Need it adapted to a house specification, a particular sector's standard wording, or a schedule of compartment sizes against a room list? Send the document — that is a normal request and it does not come with an obligation to buy from us.
Provisions by others
Short list, deliberately. Keyed and digital locks need nothing from your M&E package at all, which is worth knowing before it gets coordinated as though they did.
Keyed lockers
Nothing at all. No socket, no battery, no containment, no coordination with M&E. A finished floor and a wall that will take a fixing.
Battery keypad, card or fingerprint locks
Nothing either — the locks are entirely offline and run on batteries replaced about yearly. No socket, no cabling and no network, so there is no connection to the site's LAN.
Connected smart-access banks
One standard 3-pin 230 V socket per bank, within reach of the controller column. The controller reaches us over 4G, so no structured cabling, no switch ports and no firewall rules; Wi-Fi is supported where you would rather use it.
Phone and device charging banks
Two different answers, so check which is scheduled. A high-density cell cabinet with a socket in every compartment needs a dedicated RCD-protected supply at the cabinet position, with the compartment rows split across separate circuits so one faulty charger trips its own row — confirm that circuit with your M&E before the wall closes, because it is the one provision that is expensive to add late. A charging locker from the production range needs one standard 13 A socket per unit and nothing else: no dedicated circuit, no switchboard modification and no M&E coordination beyond a normal outlet. Give side-by-side units their own socket each rather than one block.
Builder's work
Floor finished and level to within about 5 mm over 2 m, or we pack the plinth. Wall built and set out — a bank cannot cover an isolator, a data point or a riser door. Skirting and architrave detail confirmed, because the last 20 mm of a run is where they collide.
Access and storage
Lift dimensions, door widths, stair turns and the loading bay window. Where a welded bank will not make it in, we ship knock-down columns and bolt up on site — but we need to know before fabrication, not on delivery day.
Set-out is the coordination that pays. Socket and isolator positions, skirting and architrave detail, floor level, door swings against escape widths, and the route into the room. Send drawings at any stage and we will mark up what will and will not work — the wall planner will get you a compartment count from a run of wall and a height limit in the meantime.
When the price has to come down
It usually does. You will find something to cut with or without us, so here is what we would cut and in what order — including the two we will argue about, because they are the ones that come back as a callback in year two rather than a saving in year one.
Drop the lock type before the steel gauge
Going from connected access to a battery keypad, or from a keypad to a cam lock, takes real money out with no effect on how long the cabinet lasts. Thinning the steel takes less money out and produces doors that stop closing squarely in year three. Cut the lock first, every time.
Standard finishes, standard sizes
A custom powder-coat colour adds a run and a cost for a difference nobody in the room will notice in a back-of-house area. Standard greys and off-whites are the cheapest and the fastest. Keep the custom colour for the lockers people actually look at.
Reduce the count, not the compartment
Where the lockers are day use, the count follows peak simultaneous attendance and is often a third of headcount — a real saving that costs nobody anything. Shrinking the compartment so the same number fits in less wall is the false economy: a locker that will not take the bag is not a cheaper locker, it is an unused one.
Retrofit rather than replace, if the carcasses are sound
The same cam lock cut-out takes a battery keypad or a connected latch, so existing lockers can often be upgraded for a fraction of replacement, in two to three weeks rather than eight. We survey a sample door first. Where the steel is too thin, too old or too corroded to hold a latch reliably, we will say so — a kit that fails within a year is worse for you than the replacement you avoided.
Fewer sockets in a charging bank
Powering only the lower rows and leaving plain cells above is a legitimate saving and a common request. Adding the sockets later is not a legitimate plan — it means opening a live bank and pulling a circuit through a fitted-out room. Decide before fabrication.
Do not delete the mechanical override
Every compartment gets a mechanical master override whatever the lock, so a flat battery or a network outage never traps somebody's belongings. It is a small line in the price and the first thing that matters at 7 a.m. on the day something goes wrong. We will not quote a bank without it.
Do not delete the ventilation on wet-area lockers
Louvred or perforated doors are not a finish detail in Singapore humidity — they are what stops a compartment holding damp kit from becoming a complaint. Solid doors on a changing room bank is the specification we argue against most often, and it is the one we are most often proved right about.
What moves the number in the first place is set out on the pricing page — compartment count, gauge, finish, lock type and how difficult the site is to install in. If you are vetting us as a supplier rather than pricing a package, who we are and what we have actually built is the shorter read.
Quick answer: buying lockers as a contractor
Latchwork (GX TECH PTE. LTD., UEN 202503838W) supplies and installs lockers and storage cabinets as a fit-out package for main contractors, interior contractors, architects, quantity surveyors and M&E consultants across Singapore. Typical lead time is six to ten weeks from a confirmed order and approved shop drawings, depending on specification and quantity, including sea freight and installation, so the order wants to be placed roughly ten weeks before the handover it serves; a lock retrofit onto existing lockers runs two to three weeks. Provisions by others are minimal: keyed and battery keypad lockers need nothing at all, and a connected bank needs one 3-pin 230 V socket and reaches us over 4G rather than structured cabling. We quote against a BQ or a drawing and issue shop drawings for approval.
- Lead time
- 6–10 weeks from order
- Order by
- ~10 weeks before handover
- Lock retrofit
- 2-3 weeks
- Provision by others
- One 13 A socket
Contractor questions
What do you need to price a locker package?
The BQ item or the drawing reference, the compartment count and split, the lock type if the specification names one, the finish, the room or wall dimensions, and the programme date you are working to. If the specification is silent on the lock, tell us what the room is for and we will price the lock we would actually specify, with the alternatives shown separately so your QS can see the delta. A photo of the wall with a tape measure in shot is worth more than a floor plan for the set-out.
Do you respond to tenders and formal procurement?
Yes. Send the documents and the closing date, and we will confirm whether we can meet it before you count on us. Where part of a specification is unwise for the application we will say so in the submission rather than comply quietly and let it fail in service. Some evaluators appreciate that and some do not, but you get an honest submission either way.
Can you work to our programme if the date is tighter than the six to ten weeks you quote?
Sometimes, and the honest answer depends on what you are buying. A lock retrofit onto existing carcasses is two to three weeks. Standard sizes in standard finishes can occasionally be compressed by air-freighting part of the order — we will quote the figure rather than absorb it silently and then miss the date. A custom-size, custom-colour bank below the six-week end of that band is not something we will promise, and a supplier who does is either selling stock they already hold or is going to disappoint you late in the programme.
Do you issue shop drawings, material submissions and O&M manuals?
Yes to all three, as standard rather than as a variation. Shop drawings cover bank elevations, compartment splits, plinth detail, the lock schedule and the finish reference. The material submission states steel gauge and powder-coat specification. At handover you get the O&M manual, a spare parts list, and master and change keys against a signed key schedule. A sample door for approval is available on request and is worth asking for on any job where the finish is being matched.
Who is responsible for the electrical supply?
You, or your M&E subcontractor. Keyed and battery keypad lockers need nothing. A connected bank needs one 3-pin 230 V socket at the controller position and connects over 4G, so there is no containment or structured cabling to coordinate. A charging cabinet needs a dedicated RCD-protected supply terminated at the cabinet position, and that is the one to settle before the wall closes — it is straightforward at first fix and expensive afterwards.
Will you attend site meetings and coordinate with other trades?
Yes. The coordination that matters is early and mostly about set-out: socket and isolator positions, skirting and architrave detail, floor level and finish, door swings against escape routes, and how the bank physically gets into the room. Send drawings at any stage and we will mark up what will and will not work. Problems that are trivial at design stage become variation orders on site.
Do you supply to other locker suppliers or trade buyers?
We will talk, and it depends on the item. We are also actively interested in the other direction — electronic latch hardware, locker controllers, ABS and stainless wet-area lockers, and Singapore-based installation and maintenance capacity. Send a product brief with distributor pricing, lead times and any Singapore compliance already held.
Is the smart platform a subcontracted product?
No. Connected access runs on software we wrote and operate ourselves, and the same platform already runs unmanned equipment cabinets at ActiveSG Sport Village @ Jurong Town under our Tennis Machine SG brand. That deployment is the proof it works unattended in a public venue. Applying it to member and staff storage is newer, and we would rather say so in a tender than imply an installed base we do not have — if your evaluation needs references for exactly your application, ask early and we will tell you plainly what we can and cannot show you.
Send the drawing, the BQ item or the closing date
Quotations against a BQ or a drawing, shop drawings and material submissions as standard, and a straight answer on whether your programme date is achievable before you count on it. Enquiries from main contractors, interior fit-out firms, architects, QSs and M&E consultants are all welcome.
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