According to the
VRM page on First Choice, it will only be included in the rookie KoP; the same is true of the major other control items. Unless you can get one of the 1000 of each of these items (PDP,VRM, PCM) through FIRST choice, you'll almost certainly have to buy them. I'd put very long odds on the RoboRIO being in the veteran KoP, as well.
Last year, we held a
piggybackr campaign to raise the money for a second control system so that we did not have to move the control board back and forth between the practice and competition robot (and use up about half of our withholding allowance). We raised a bit more than we needed in a month, mostly from family (including many extended family members) of students, alumni, and mentors.