Igniting Readiness: Louisville Fire Department's New Training Tower
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Build readiness from the ground up

Realistic training environments help fire-rescue teams build skills, confidence, and readiness for the calls ahead. See how the Louisville Fire Department streamlined the path from project planning to a purpose-built training tower with support from Sourcewell and an awarded supplier.

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Training and simulation

Uniforms

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Advancing the future of fire-rescue operations

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Cooperative purchasing for fire-rescue service leaders

A how-to guide to cooperative purchasing for fire-rescue service leaders.

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

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