MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Big changes may be headed to Merced County's emergency response.

The Board of Supervisors is set to vote on the county's ambulance services Tuesday morning.

Riggs Ambulance Service has been the sole EMS provider for more than 70 years. Michael Swenson is the operations manager for the company and says the decision to potentially replace Riggs comes after officials put in a Request For Proposal (RFP) for ambulance services.

"The RFP came out in May of this year," he explained. "On Aug. 18 is when we kind of found out that they were going to go with another company. And so, from that point, we've just kind of been putting together our protests and trying to appeal everything."

Swenson says Riggs was told they were out of compliance and in breach of the

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