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Emergency Vehicle Sales and Service ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 1719 South Franklin Road 9545 Industrial Drive North 1743 Quincy Avenue, Suite 155 Indianapolis, Indiana 46239 St. John, Indiana 46373 Naperville, Illinois 60540 219-365-7157: Office Phone Website: www.fireserviceinc.com 219-365-8572: Office Fax Toll Free: 800-578-4281 November 10, 2020 Jeffrey Hudak Director of Equipment & Services Department of Admin. & Finance Central Services Division City of South Bend 1045 W. Sample St South Bend, IN 46619 Re: Ambulance Bid/ Blanket exception to proprietary construction items within the specification. Sir, Thank you for the opportunity to bid the ambulance for South Bend. We have reviewed your specification and clearly it is a proprietary specification to PL Custom Ambulance. Our dealership, which represents REV Group ambulances Road Rescue and Wheeled Coach, have been extremely successful over the last 15 years in Indiana and Illinois. We have extensive product knowledge and capabilities to service your agency. We, as any other manufacturer, would find it impossible to build a PL Custom ambulance in the spirit of true competitive opportunities to gain your business. In review of the specification, unless the parameters of “equal to or equivalent” or “meeting the scope and intent” are allowed with regard to the construction and materials, HVAC design and other highly proprietary items within the specification, we would not be able to provide you with a competitive bid. We must take blanket exception to those proprietary items, as we believe not only do, we meet the intent and scope, but our crash testing alone provides the City the confidence that our manufacturing processes are superior. What we can and will do, if allowed, is to propose an ambulance manufactured with the only fully live vehicle, destructive side impact crash test that the industry has yet to challenge. This, along with the first industry roll over test, and subsequent NHTSA Injury Criteria findings, places REV Orlando products at the pinnacle of safety for patient and crew. This alone validates the strength and durability of the products. Our Per4Max occupant restraint system allows the attendant to move about while restrained. The security of controlled decelerator restraints prevents snap type recoil that can increase injury potential while restrained. The Wheeled Coach ambulance we are proposing remains the most stringently tested ambulance in the industry, while providing the highest quality and value. As you can see, REV Orlando has products that can and will provide you longevity and quality, encapsulated in the safest means of construction. It would be unfortunate if the City of South Bend were not receptive to this product for their teams. We ask that the City relaxes the specification to allow that the scope and intent of the project be allowed to promote true competition. We would be thrilled to provide the City of South Bend our product. Regards, Jeff LeBeda Jeff LeBeda, MS MOB, Vice President of Sales 6300-546-5232 jeff@fireserviceinc.com