Plano Fire-Rescue currently uses Power-PRO cots manufactured by the Stryker Corporation.  This device conveys patients and assists with loading and unloading a patient from the ambulance.  All of our Department’s ambulances are equipped with this device.  Currently eleven (11) cots are due to be replaced. The Stryker Corporation is a sole-source provider for the Power-PRO 2 Cot.

Fire department personnel frequently work out of different fire stations and on different apparatus.  Uniform equipment ensures familiarity with use and in turn reduces exposure to risk. The current cots have reached their service life span.

Total cost of this purchase will be $305,429 with funding coming from Fire Department ERF account.

If not awarded Plano Fire-Rescue would not have the equipment on these vehicles to utilize them for their intended purpose.  Essential equipment needed to operate would continually need to be borrowed from another vehicle thus rendering the other vehicle inoperable.

The City is exempt from the competitive bid process for this purchase allowed by Texas Local Government Code Chapter 252 Subchapter B Section 252.022 (a)(7)(A). (City of Plano Internal Contract No. 2022-0506-X).

Funding for this item is available in the 2021-22 Fire Equipment Replacement Fund.  The purchase of eleven (11) Stryker Power-PRO cots, in the total estimated amount of $305,429, will leave a current year balance of $1,000,627 for future equipment replacement expenditures. 

Approval of this item will support the City's Strategic Plan Critical Success Factors of being an Excellent, Innovative, and Accountable City Government with Safe, Vibrant Neighborhoods.