SLO County still plans to seek bids for ambulance contract - but uncertainty looms
Dozens of local paramedics, fire and public health officials packed San Luis Obispo County’s government building on Tuesday to watch supervisors receive an update on its ambulance services contract. Many in the crowd called for the county to drop its current plan to move forward with a competitive bidding process for ground emergency ambulance transport — a process that could result in San Luis Ambulance losing the contract its held since 1945. San Luis Ambulance paramedic Chad Robertson compared the provider to the beating heart of the community’s public health and safety community. “I’m not suggesting our EMS system is perfect or shouldn’t evolve, but there’s a difference between improving a system and disrupting relationships that have made it successful,” Robertson said during nearly an hour of public comment. “Like the human body, when the heart and all those systems are working together, you just don’t disrupt the balance without a very good reason.” For the first time in October 2025, the SLO County Board of Supervisors voted to launch a request-for-proposal process for ground medical transport. Requests for proposals, or RFPs, are a common government practice in San Luis Obispo County with the county frequently putting contracts out to
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