Funding
"How do we pay for it?"
Grants, cooperative contracts, purchase orders on net terms, and trade-in credit against what you are replacing. We quote to whichever mechanism your procurement actually uses, and we will help you find the funding programs your agency is eligible for.
Procurement-ready quoting · Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, and South Dakota
The equipment decision and the funding decision are the same decision.
For most agencies we work with, the equipment budget is a board decision. Which means a quote that ignores how you actually buy is not much use to you, however good the equipment on it is.
So we ask about the mechanism early, and we quote to it. Not because the paperwork is interesting, but because it is the difference between a recommendation you can act on and one that sits in an inbox until next budget year.
What we quote to
Four ways agencies pay for equipment
These are the mechanisms we quote to. If your procurement process uses something else, tell us — we would rather find out at the quote stage than after an approval fails.
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Grants
Grant funding is how a lot of rural and frontier agencies buy capital equipment. We will help you identify the funding programs your agency is eligible for, and quote in the form a grant application or an award needs.
Programs, eligibility rules, and deadlines differ from one program and one state to the next, and we have not published a program directory. Tell us where you operate and what you are trying to buy.
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Cooperative contracts
If your agency buys through a cooperative purchasing contract, we can quote to it. Cooperative contract pricing is one of the mechanisms we quote to as a matter of course, not an exception we have to work around.
Tell us which contract your agency purchases under and we will tell you honestly whether we can quote to it.
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Purchase orders
Standard purchase orders on net terms. For most agencies this is the straightforward path, and it is the one that fits an existing approval process without anyone having to invent a new one.
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Trade-in credit
Credit for the equipment you are replacing, applied against the new purchase — so retiring a unit offsets the cost of the one that replaces it instead of leaving you to dispose of it.
Trade-ins run through LifeCycle by LifeMed, and the credit appears on the same written quote as the new equipment.
What you receive
Something you can take to your board.
A quote, a service recommendation, or a reason to wait — in writing, with the specifications, so it can go in front of the people who approve it without you having to reconstruct the reasoning from memory.
Where trade-in credit applies, it appears on the same quote as the new equipment, so the number your board sees is the number your agency actually pays.
Request a written quoteTell us this and we can quote to your process
- Which mechanism your agency buys under
- What you are replacing, if anything
- Where you operate
- Whether there is a deadline you are working to
The quote form has a request type for funding and purchasing guidance — choose it if the funding question is the one you need answered first.
What we will not do
We are not grant writers and we do not run your procurement. What we do is tell you which mechanisms fit what you are trying to buy, quote in a form your process can use, and say plainly when the honest answer is to wait for the next budget cycle or to repair what you already have.
A straight recommendation, including when it is "not yet." If the right call is to plan for next year, that is what we will tell you — in writing, with the reasoning, so you can take that to your board too.
Where to next
Related paths
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Tell us what you need and how you buy. We'll quote it in a form your process can use.