Fire and Emergency Awards Equipment Support Contract to Rural Fire Network

Fire and Emergency has awarded Rural Fire Network Limited (NZBN9429037778439) a contract to provide Equipment and Logistics support in the form of managing, maintaining, testing, servicing and/or repairing equipment to the Nelson/Marlborough area. The contract was awarded on 30th November 2024 for a term of 3 years. This was a direct source procurement process where Government Procurement Rule 14.9.c (i) was applied.

The exemption was justified in that: � The supplier, over a period of time, developed intimate knowledge of a complex system being Fire and Emergency�s operational equipment Asset Management System (AMS) and Asset Management Information Systems (AMIS) and its asset management maintenance, repair, test and certification standards/system (RD5) that Fire and Emergency can reasonably claim that other suppliers would not have a similar level of readily available knowledge.

� the supplier has essential, highly specialised expertise, technology, qualifications, and skills that are not otherwise available in the region (particularly access to a hose drying tower which is essential to meet Fire and Emergency hose maintenance requirements and standards).