Ordering & procurement
We are set up to be ordered the way you already order everything else.
No new process, no new system, no vendor onboarding project in the middle of an incident. Purchase card, rental agreement, or preseason placement — whichever your unit already uses.
Three ways to get us on the incident
- 01
Incident purchase card — fastest path
A single kit on a 14-day assignment runs between roughly $1,500 and $5,200 all-in, comfortably inside the $15,000 micro-purchase threshold, so a warranted cardholder on your buying team can execute it directly. Season placements at the larger types, multi-kit orders, and sustained on-site ITSS support exceed that threshold and move to simplified acquisition procedures. We will tell you which side of the line your order falls on before you place it.
- 02
Emergency Equipment Rental Agreement (EERA/EERSA)
We carry a current W-9, SAM registration, and certificates of insurance. Rates below are structured as daily rates for time under hire, so they drop straight onto an OF-286 without translation.
- 03
Preseason placement
Season-long positioning with your unit or team. Kits stage where you stage, go out on your resource orders, and are invoiced monthly against a single agreement.
Where we ship
Every one of these is a real address a carrier will actually deliver to.
- 01
Your host unit office — the Forest, District, or Field Office administering the incident. Always addressable.
- 02
Your local interagency cache — already a receiving and staging point for incident supplies.
- 03
Your dispatch center — 141 of them nationally, all with street addresses. Use the live map to find yours.
If your resource order carries navigation instructions instead of an address, send them. We plan the route the same way the caches do. We do not deliver to uncontrolled fire line.
Find your dispatch center on the live mapBatteries, and why that matters
Every one of our kits carries a lithium power station large enough to be regulated as dangerous goods. Most people selling field kits either do not know this or do not tell you.
01
UN3481, Class 9
Power stations above 100 watt-hours ship as regulated dangerous goods. That means a declaration, hazard labeling, compliant packaging, and a trained shipper on the sending end.
02
It changes what is possible
Regulated shipments are frequently restricted to cargo aircraft and are not eligible for every express service. Anyone promising you overnight air on a battery kit has not read the rules.
03
We ship them correctly, both directions
Our cases are packed to spec, declared, and labeled. The return leg is arranged by us, on our paperwork.
This is also why we stage regionally instead of centralizing. Ground from close by beats air from far away, and it is legal every time.
What we need from you to ship
Six items. If you have them, we can move.
- 01Incident name and number
- 02Resource order number
- 03Agency and unit
- 04Ship-to address for the ICP or drop point
- 05Requested delivery date
- 06On-incident point of contact with a mobile number
Paperwork we handle
Documentation is our job, not the finance section's.
OF-286
Emergency Equipment Use Invoice, prepared and submitted by us.
Shift tickets
Daily documentation for time under hire.
W-9
Current, on file, provided with the first order.
Certificate of insurance
General liability and auto, additional insured on request.
Capability statement
One page, formatted for a contracting file.
The capability statement is in preparation. The linked file is a placeholder.
Business information
Registration is in progress. Values marked pending are not yet issued and are shown as placeholders.
- Legal entity
- Drop Point Networks LLC
- UEI
- Pending
- CAGE code
- Pending
- SAM registration status
- Pending
- NAICS — primary
- 517410 Satellite Telecommunications
- NAICS — secondary
- 532490 Other Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing
- Business size
- Small
- DUNS / other identifiers
- Pending