Market Survey for Responder Assessment/Validation of User Equipment (RAVUE): Extrication Devices

摘要

The System Support Division (SSD) of the Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP) has been assigned the responsibility for developing and providing emergency response equipment information that may be used by federal, state, and local jurisdictions in procuring emergency response equipment. The goal of this process is to assist procurement decision-makers in making to make better use of federal Homeland Security grants intended to improve responder readiness.To develop the needed comparative field assessments for commercially available products, the SSD and its program partners have established the ODP Systems Assessment/Validation for Emergency Responders (SAVER) program. An element of the SAVER program is the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) Responder Assessment/ Validation of User Equipment (RAVUE) program to assess end-user functionality and efficacy during a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) incident.The following sections of this Market Analysis present the methodology used in soliciting vendor recommendations for their products to be included in this extrication devices assessment.