Products – Equipment – Materials
Purchased During Disaster Planning/Preparation/Mitigation, Response, and Recovery
Federal, state, and local governments, schools (K-12) and universities/colleges, insurance companies, private businesses, homeowners, and not-for-profit organizations purchase just about every product, price of equipment, or type of materials produced. The following is a list of some of the 165+ products, equipment, and materials purchased over the past five years – this list is not an exhaustive list – it is fair to say that the government buys everything during disaster response and recovery.
- Adhesives – All Types
- Air Conditioners
- Airplanes
- Alarms
- All-Terrain Vehicles – All Types
- Antifreeze and Coolant Products
- Asphalt
- ATV / Club Cars
- Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs)
- Barges
- Beds and Bedding
- Blue Roof Sheeting
- Boats – All Types
- Bottled Water – all types
- Bulk Fuel
- Bulldozers
- Buses – All Types
- Cables and Ropes
- Cameras
- Cardiovascular Instrumentation – Defibrillators, Heart Pumps, Monitoring Equipment, etc.
- Cars – Rental Cars
- Cellular Phones and Accessories
- Cement
- Chairs/Equipment for Mobile RV and Tent Sites
- Cleaning and Decontamination Products
- Coffee and Coffee Products
- Cold Weather Gear
- Command Posts and Incident Command Centers
- Commercial Linen Products
- Communications Equipment – All Types
- Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment
- Computer Hardware and Software
- Construction Materials – All
- Consumable Medical Supplies
- Copy Machines
- Cost Estimating Software
- Drones
- Drugs and Druggists’ Sundries
- Dumpster Rental
- Earth Moving Equipment and Operators
- Electrical Equipment – All
- Electronics – Miscellaneous
- Elevator – Parts
- Emergency Backup Generators
- Emergency Building Enclosure
- Emergency Chair Evacuation Device
- Emergency Power Restoration Equipment
- Emergency Road Clearance Equipment
- Emergency Shelter Equipment
- Emergency Snow Removal Equipment
- Equipment Rental Firms – All Types
- Energy Drinks – Protein Drinks
- Excavators
- Extermination Supplies and Equipment
- Fax Machines
- Fire Detecting Equipment
- First Aid Products – All Types
- Food – all
- Food (Health) Supplements
- Fuel – All Forms
- Furniture – Office and Household
- Generator Filters
- Generators – All Types
- Gloves and Finger Cots, Medical Type
- GoPro-Type Cameras
- Guard Dogs
- Handheld Scanners
- Hand Trucks
- Hardware – All Types
- Heating, Venting, and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
- Helicopters
- Household Appliances
- Ice – Manufacturers and Storage
- Insulation – All Kinds
- Janitorial/Custodial Products
- Knuckleboom Self-Loading Trucks
- Laboratory and Field-Testing Equipment
- Laboratory and Field-Testing Products
- Lighting – All Types
- Loaders
- Locks, Key Blanks, and Locksmith Tools
- Locksmith Equipment
- Locksmith Products
- Lumber – all types
- Manufacturers and Wholesales – All Products
- Masonry and Concrete Repair Products
- Masonry Products – All
- Masonry Saws and Blades
- Mattresses
- Medical Evacuation Equipment
- Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies
- Mobile Home Manufacturers
- Mosquito Netting
- Mosquito Sprays and Mitigation Products
- Motor Coach Rental
- Oil
- Ophthalmic Equipment
- Ophthalmic Products
- Oxygen Tanks
- Pamphlets and Documents
- Paper
- Perishable Prepared Food
- Plastic Plumbing Fixtures
- Plastic Products
- Portable Offices
- Port-A-Potties and Maintenance
- Posts, Standards, Supports, and Expansion Plugs for Signs
- Potable Tanks
- Printers and Supplies
- Propane
- Pumps – All Kinds
- Pumps – Gasoline and Diesel Fuel (Service Station Type)
- Radios and Networks
- Rebar – Steel
- Refrigerators and Freezers
- Rescue Equipment – All Types
- Retina Vulnerability Scanner Tool
- Roof Coatings – All Kinds
- Roof Tarping
- Roofing – Coated, Elastomeric, Sprayed Foam, etc.
- Roofing Equipment
- Roofing Products
- Ropes and Cables
- Rubber Products
- Safety Equipment – All Types
- Safety Vests
- Sanitary Paper Products
- Scooters
- Screen House Canopies
- Screen Houses
- Septic Tank – Installation, Repair, and Maintenance
- Shingles, Composition, Asphalt – Roofing
- Shuttles and Buses
- Signage
- Snow Removal and De-Icing Equipment
- Snow Removal and De-Icing Products
- Software
- Structural Drying Equipment
- Structural Drying Products
- Tarps
- Temporary HVAC Products
- Temporary Offices and Mobile Command Trailers
- Tents – all types
- Testing Equipment
- Testing Products
- Thermal Blankets
- Towels
- Toys and Games – all types
- Transformer – High Voltage (Maintenance and Repair) Equipment
- Transformer – High Voltage (Maintenance and Repair) Products
- Transformer – Power (Electric Sub-Station) Equipment
- Transformer – Power (Electric Sub-Station) Products
- Transportation Equipment
- Travel Trailers
- Trucks – All Types
- Tub and Horizontal Grinders
- Two-Way Radio Receivers, Transmitters, Transceivers – Mobile and Base Station
- Wash Kits
- Water Containers/Bottles
- Water Quality Monitoring Equipment – Bod Analyzers, Turbidimeters, Well Samplers, Etc.
- Water Testing Products
- Weather Radios
- Weed and Vegetation Control Products
- Wells – All Kinds
- Wheelbarrows
- Winches
- Windows
- Windows and Curtain Wall System Replacements