Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to issue a purchase order to Laerdal Medical Corporation for the purchase of patient simulator training equipment for the Division of Fire Training Bureau. Laerdal Medical Corporation is the sole source provider of the SimMan patient simulator currently used by the Training Bureau. The Division of Fire has a need to replace existing patient simulation equipment that is beyond its useful life. The total cost of this purchase is $56,567.62, which includes the simulation manikin and accessories, instructor tablet-PCs for simulated patient monitoring, educational session, on-site installation, warranty and updates. The Division of Fire Training Bureau currently employs a Laerdal computerized patient simulator to assist in EMS training. These simulators use lifelike manikins programmed to simulate a multitude of medical conditions that are used to train emergency responders. This legislation authorizes the purchase of this simulator, thus allowing the Training Bureau to utilize the hundreds of scenarios already written with Laerdal software, and currently used with the existing simulator, without the need to learn a new operating interface on another manufacturer's simulator. This purchase would provide product continuity and would augment current training practices by employing similar and familiar equipment using existing scenarios already employed with the current simulator.
Bid Information: Laerdal Medical Corporation is the sole source provider of the Laerdal SimMan patient simulator equipment currently utilized for its EMS training efforts.
Contract Compliance: Laerdal Medical Corporation / #13-2587752 (Vendor #000614) / Active C.C. 08/24/17.
Emergency Designation: This legislation is to be declared an emergency measure so that legislative approval can occur prior to expiration of the product quote.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an expenditur...
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