NIGP 05527: Emergency Kits for Vehicles Including First Aid Kit, Tools, etc.

NIGP 05527 Emergency Kits For Vehicles Including First Aid Kit, Tools, Etc., an Item code, covers trauma and medical kits purpose-built for rapid first-responder deployment in vehicle environments—compact, carrier-mounted or duty-belt compatible kits containing tourniquets, hemostatic gauze, chest seals, airways, and ancillary medical supplies. State and local governments procuring under this code are acquiring ready-to-issue medical response equipment for law enforcement, fire rescue, transit police, and emergency services fleets, with kit specifications driven by operational standards for individual first-aid kits (IFAKs) rather than bulk clinical supplies. Representative recent opportunities include Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority's May 2026 blanket purchase order for 60 Police Individual First Aid Kits (laser-cut Cordura nylon construction, Molle-compatible, pre-filled with CAT tourniquets, QuikClot Combat Gauze LE, NAR HyFin chest seals, and nasopharyngeal airways) and the District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education's April 2026 RFQ for First Aid Kits and Bodily Fluid Kits restricted to Industrial Supplies and Apparel Market vendors supplying school-based emergency response. Issuing bodies span transit authorities, school districts, county emergency management divisions, and fire rescue departments, reflecting the distributed nature of vehicle-based first-responder networks.

Procurement activity under this code appears minimal in recent state and local solicitations. The source materials provide only two concrete NIGP 05527-aligned opportunities—the DART police IFAK order and the DC Schools first-aid RFQ—both posted in the May–June 2026 window. No additional state or regional geographic clustering is evident from available records. The DART solicitation emphasizes firm fixed pricing on a unit basis with FOB Destination freight inclusion and strict delivery timing (12-month base period); the DC Schools RFQ imposed a compressed six-day response window and market-segment restriction limiting eligible bidders. Set-aside designations do not appear in either opportunity. This code segment does not show the volume or frequency of activity present in adjacent vehicle-maintenance or janitorial-supply categories, suggesting either episodic demand patterns (refreshing deployed kits on cyclical schedules) or consolidation into broader emergency-preparedness or first-responder-equipment contracts. Bidders should monitor fire and rescue procurement channels and transit authority purchasing offices for intermittent, smaller-dollar purchase orders and cooperative agreements rather than expect sustained solicitation velocity.