Battling Blazes, Not Budgets: A Sourcewell Cooperative Purchasing Success Story
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Fast-Track Fire Department Procurement

The traditional RFP process can be time-consuming and tedious. Fire chiefs can save staff hours and budgets by using cooperative purchasing contracts to get the rescue fire trucks, fire department gear, and firefighter tools their crews rely on.
 
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The Right Fit For The Job - Hernando County Success Story
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Get the right gear, right on time

When equipment fits the job — and the people doing it — crews move faster, work safer, and serve better. Save time purchasing with competitively solicited contracts from awarded suppliers and get the gear you need, when you need it. 

See how Hernando County Fire Rescue used Sourcewell to find the right fit for the job. 

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Search for fire rescue cooperative purchasing contracts by category

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Communications equipment

Team tracking, fire and rescue station alerting, and public safety communications solutions

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Fire apparatus

Firefighter rescue tools, hydraulic rescue tools, fire suppression and pumping systems, and SCBA

Fire truck putting out fire

Emergency response vehicles

Emergency vehicles, fire trucks, ambulances, transport vehicles, trailers, off-road vehicles, UTVs, ATVs, and snowmobiles

Fire drone

Firefighting technology

Drones, hardware, and incident command/emergency management software

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Firefighting equipment

Rescue equipment and body armor with related accessories, equipment, and services

Fire training

Training and simulation

Public safety training equipment, driving simulation systems, and fire safety training tools

Firefighting PPE

Firefighting PPE

Firefighting protective gear, cleaning, and related equipment

Fire uniforms

Uniforms

Public safety uniforms, uniforms for fire and EMS, tactical gear, detention supplies, tailoring, and fitting services

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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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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 solicitation.

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

Questions? Contact us.

Contracts are competitively solicited and delivered through your local dealer or representative.

Learn more by contacting our dedicated team online or call 877-413-5360.