Not every fire brigade is public. Refineries, large industrial sites, and private facilities run their own fire brigades with the same gear care obligation, and they procure privately. A discovery scan cannot find what a private brigade never published.
Why discovery cannot find them
A private or industrial fire brigade is not a public buyer, so it does not advertise a solicitation. It sends an RFP for gear extractors or cleaning to a shortlist of suppliers. There is no portal posting for a monitoring agent to catch, and that is the honest limit of discovery here.
What handles the private RFP instead
When a private brigade sends a dealer or provider its gear care RFP, the work shifts from finding it to answering it: reading the package, checking every requirement against the care standard, scoring the go or no go, and drafting the response. Discovery finds the public fire work, and the bid response agent reads the full private RFP the moment it lands.
How the two work together
Our discovery agent covers the public fire department bids, the grant funded buys, and the cooperatives, and is honest that private brigade RFPs sit outside it. The response agent then handles those private packages when they arrive.
The agent covers the public fire work and hands the private brigade RFPs to the response side. See the fire turnout gear bid agent in the interactive demo.