NIGP 83846: Emergency Simultaneous Communication Systems (Voice, E-Mail, Text)

NIGP 83846 Emergency Simultaneous Communication Systems (Voice, E-Mail, Text), an Item code, covers integrated safety and emergency notification platforms that state and local governments deploy to alert residents, employees, and staff across multiple channels during critical incidents. Recent solicitations show procurement ranges from school district alert-badge systems with wearable components and building hardware to county-wide mass notification platforms serving millions of residents, with work encompassing software licensing, hardware installation, integration with existing emergency-operations infrastructure, training, and ongoing support. Issuing bodies include county emergency management divisions, school districts, sheriffs' offices, and 911 communications centers. The code also captures dispatch software systems that coordinate emergency response operations and disaster-response resource pools activated under formal and informal emergency declarations. Counties and school districts are the primary buyers; Harris County and Collier County appear as major procurement actors in the most recent cycle.

Activity is concentrated in the Southeast and Midwest, with recent solicitations from Georgia (White County 911 dispatch, Bibb County school emergency management), Florida (Collier County disaster services, a Florida county postage RFI), Michigan (West Ottawa Public Schools alert-badge system), Texas (Harris County mass notification), and California (Santa Clara County sheriff radios). Representative opportunities include Harris County's mass notification system RFP (due April 6, 2026, contract term commencing July 1, 2026) seeking integration with FEMA's Integrated Public Alert and Warning System and replacement of the Everbridge Ready Harris Alerts platform across five million residents; White County Board of Commissioners' Computer Aided Dispatch RFP (due June 26, 2026, mandatory pre-bid June 8, 2026) for a GOVCLOUD-based platform supporting law enforcement, fire, and EMS dispatch evaluated on total five-year cost of ownership; and West Ottawa Public Schools' sealed-bid procurement (due August 3, 2026) for Singlewire/Visitor Aware Alert Badge infrastructure including 1,000 InformaCast Reach Licenses, 830 wearable badges, and building hardware requiring all-inclusive pricing and a Performance and Labor bond for bids exceeding $50,000.