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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: December 10, 2024 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8-n <br /> SUBJECT: FY 2024-25 Ambulance Equipment Purchase <br /> DEPARTMENT: Emergency Services <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Kirby Saunders, Emergency Services <br /> Quote #10988222 and Sole Source Director, 919-245-6123 <br /> Letters Kim Woodward, Division Chief— <br /> Emergency Medical Services (EMS), <br /> 919-245-6133 <br /> Sarah Pickhardt, Division Chief— <br /> Emergency Management, 919-245- <br /> 6135 <br /> PURPOSE: To approve and authorize the Manager to sign all documents necessary for the <br /> procurement of one (1) LIFEPAK 15 Monitor/Defibrillator, three (3) LUCAS Chest Compression <br /> Systems, three (3) POWERPRO Cots, three (3) POWERLOAD systems, and three (3) Stair-PRO <br /> stair chairs. <br /> BACKGROUND: The FY 2024-34 Capital Investment Plan (CIP) included the purchase of the <br /> medical equipment for three (3) Advanced Life Support ambulances during Fiscal Year 2024- <br /> 2025. Two (2) of the ambulances are replacements for trucks that have met their end of life. The <br /> third ambulance purchase is to accompany the build of the future emergency medical services <br /> (EMS) Station co-located with Chapel Hill Fire in Fiscal Year 2025-26. <br /> This approval included three (3) LUCAS Chest Compression Systems, three (3) POWERPRO <br /> cots, three (3) POWERLOAD systems to assist with cots onboard/offloading from ambulances, <br /> and three (3) Stair-PRO stair chairs. It also included the purchase of one (1) LIFEPAK 15 <br /> Monitor/Defibrillator. <br /> The purchase of the single LIFEPAK is to equip the new ambulance to the fleet. The LIFEPAKs <br /> for the two (2) replacement ambulances were authorized at the Board's October 1, 2024 Business <br /> meeting as part of the strategic replacement of the LIFEPAK fleet outlined in the Capital <br /> Replacement Plan Budget. <br /> The Basic Life Support ambulance that is being purchased using cost savings from remounting <br /> the boxes from two (2) ambulances that are aging out of the Emergency Services fleet will be <br /> equipped using existing medical equipment. <br />