Battling Blazes, Not Budgets: A Sourcewell Cooperative Purchasing Success Story
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Streamlining fire-rescue procurement

The traditional RFP process can be time-consuming and tedious. Our cooperative purchasing contracts help fire chiefs conserve staff hours and budgets while getting the equipment and solutions their department needs — faster.

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First to the Frontlines: A Sourcewell Cooperative Purchasing Success Story
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A trusted process offering more time, choice, and value

Fire chiefs and other fire-rescue service leaders trust Sourcewell to purchase anything from PPE to fire apparatus. We work with manufacturers and dealers you know and trust through hundreds of competitively solicited public safety contracts, fast-tracking procurement while not limiting your choices.

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Choose from top solutions and equipment suppliers

Ambulances

Body armor

Communications equipment

Conducted energy weapons

Fire apparatus

Firefighting equipment

Firefighting PPE

Fleet vehicles and products

Public safety hardware

Public safety software

Public safety video surveillance

Training and simulation

Uniforms

Unmanned vehicles

Wireless voice and data services

What fellow chiefs have to say

As North America's largest government cooperative procurement organization, Sourcewell works with more than 50,000 participating agencies. Here's what some of them have to say.

With Sourcewell, we can find what meets our department’s needs within the system, with all those contracts in place, saving time and money, effort, frustration.

Rich Cowger, Fire Chief, Columbus, Montana and President, Montana State Fire Chiefs Association

When it came time to buy a new air compressor it was: 'here's the make, here's the model, here's the price tag, this is what I want to order.' Within a day's approval from the council, I already had the purchase order done by Sourcewell and the item was on the road.

Timothy Whitham, Fire Chief, Edwardsville Fire Department, Kansas

Cooperative purchasing makes it easy to get what you want, the way you want it, without all the hoops you have to jump through with government purchasing.

Alex Boyd, Assistant Fire Chief, Anchorage Fire Department, Alaska

Fire departments are facing a lot of financial threats… Sourcewell can really assist in cooperative purchasing. They are one of our leading partners with the International Association of Fire Chiefs. They are the source—no pun intended—to go to for cooperative purchasing.

John Butler, Fire Chief Fairfax County Virginia, and President of the IAFC

To me, cooperative purchasing is kind of a no-brainer. Instead of having to reinvent the wheel, you can take something that's already been done and you can compare it to your needs. It's clearly going to save you so much more time than having to start from the beginning and build it yourself.

Martha Ellis, Division Chief (Ret.), Salt Lake City Fire Department, Utah

As fire chiefs, we are pulled in so many different directions. Cooperative purchasing just gives you time back where you don't have to go through a process of going through a bid.

Gene Coleman, Fire Chief (Ret.), Southeastern Association of Fire Chiefs

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Webinar: Strengthening disaster planning

Sourcewell supports fire departments in procuring critical equipment and technology needed to meet preparedness and response challenges.
 
In a webinar with Fire Engineering, Sourcewell joined fellow procurement and disaster recovery experts to share how the fire service can leverage cooperative contracts for improved disaster management and efficient use of disaster funding.
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