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Administrative Office Nashua Fire Rescue
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70 East Hollis St, Nashua, NH 03060 Gerhard @nashuanh. gov
www. nashuafire.cam
Date: December 3, 2016
To: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
From: Deputy Chief Gerhard
RE: Purchase of Hazmat Wide Area Monitoring System for Nashua Fire Rescue (Value:
$87,573.00)
Fund: 2016-17 State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) Grant $87,573.00
Mr. Kooken,
This project for Nashua Fire Rescue will replace our existing approximately 12 year old hazmat
wide area air monitoring system. The existing system suffered a catastrophic hardware failure
and is not serviceable by the manufacturer due to end of life product line. Additionally, the
system is no longer compatible to integrate with other Hazmat teams in the state to form a wide
area monitoring system (newer technology/vendor).
The new AreaRae Pro RDK hazmat wide area monitoring system will be funded by the 2016-17
State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) Grant in the amount of $87,573.00 Nashua was
recently awarded and accepted (R-16-078). The new AreaRae Pro RDK system will allow the
Nashua Fire Rescue Hazmat Team to regain this important air monitoring ability, as well as once
again be compatible with other hazmat team’s air monitoring equipment in the state.
The Information Technology Division and this Office recommend the award of this purchase of
an AreaRae Pro RDK System for the amount of $87,800.00 to Industrial Protection Services
LLC, Wilmington MA. Nashua Fire Rescue will fund the shipping costs which exceed the
grant awarded of $227.00. This overage was generated due to the manufacturer updating the
system to the next generation post the grant quotation. The manufacturer is awarding the new
generation AreaRae Pro RDK system for the cost of the old system. This is an approximate
savings to the City of Nashua of over $30,000.00 between the ori ginally quoted older generation
AreaRae Pro RDK system and the newest/current generation system to be delivered.
If you have questions or comments please contact me at your convenience.
Karl Gerhard
Deputy Chief
Nashua Fire Rescue
SMART Coordinator
