So yeah, tell me again how its harmless to charge $350 for a $20 radio. If I've personally seen this happen it's not a stretch to extrapolate this out and say this price gouging costs fingers
The fact that you are almost totally unfamiliar with what you're doing is sticking out in this quote right here. You have the whole concept bas-ackwards. Somewhere in one of your posts you said when a radio didn't work you had to send somebody running to go get help or make a call. You also said that when a radio fails you can just buy another one. When you're standing there with somebody caught in a machine ( or heart attack or poisonous snake bite yada yada yada...) and your "CCR" 🙄 takes a dump because it falls apart in your hand you're doing the same damn thing. Would you quick like a bunny order another one off of Amazon while somebody's mangled themselves in a machine? Hope a drone drops it off to you in time with a charged battery? Hope it actually works when it's turned on and programmed to the right frequencies and talk groups? How much do you think any kind of an injury or a life is worth? Make it even worse on a remote job site? With an analogy like this, you're better off just having everybody have a company provided cell phone. No service? Leave it to the pros to figure it out.
Most of the people responding to your post including myself have years and years doing exactly what you're trying to figure out. A few of them are very experienced with Motorola CAP+ systems. Using Baofeng and Motorola CAP+ working together somehow in the same sentence is hilarious but even more troubling is the fact that you're trying to implement this. Trying to justify cost over life safety is the most troubling aspect of this all.
My most humble suggestions are these.
Stop justifying cost per radio and trying to whack whoever supplied the Motorola system as "price gouging" your company. I'm not necessarily a Motorola fanboi (anymore...) but DMR technology is pretty solid when implemented by a reputable company. If anybody wanted to price gouge they would have sold you P25 but I digress.
Learn all you can about RF technology then start learning about DMR system technology if you're going to stick with the Capacity Plus stuff. Try to understand how it works, why it works the way it does and how best to implement it when you do learn it. In the meantime, do your due diligence in selecting a vendor that can service what you have if you don't have one now. Best time to select that vendor is before something is screwed up or broke trying to make it work with crap radios and they have to come "un**** it" as somebody else pointed out. I've been there and done that. It did not go well. Based on what you have been posting it does not appear that you know enough about that system to effectively manage it.
Don't leave a legacy of "Save a Buck Bob". You are a hero if it works but in this particular situation, you're just speeding towards the edge of the Grand Canyon in a bus that has no brakes. You may have saved thousands of dollars in equipment cost but if everybody's dead, it ceases to matter
Best of luck in getting this whole thing wrangled up and heading down the right road.