Cooperative Purchasing

The Greater Portland Council of Governments’ (GPCOG) Cooperative Purchasing program saves our municipalities thousands of dollars every year. We coordinate a competitive bidding process for the purchase of a wide variety of vendor products and services to obtain the best possible pricing for our municipalities.

In Fiscal Year 2019, we saved our member municipalities more than $365,500 in road salt purchases alone.

View Our Bids/RFPs

Complete list of bids & RFPs

Products and Services

GPCOG’s cooperative purchasing program offers ten products or services:

  • Bulk copy paper and office supplies
  • Crack sealing
  • Culvert pipes
  • Heating fuels
  • Paving
  • Road salt
  • Road striping
  • Signs
  • Snow plow cutting edges
  • Transportation fuels

Further Information

If your community is interested in purchasing through our cooperative purchasing program, please contact Tony Plante, Director of Municipal Collaboration, at 207-774-9891, ext. 216 or email Tony Plante.

2021 Cooperative Purchasing Bid Schedule

Bid Product or ServiceEstimated Needs
Requested from Towns		Estimated Needs DueBids AvailableBid OpenBid Awarded
Heating Fuels
January 25, 2021
February 12, 2021
February 25, 2021
March 11, 2021
March 11, 2021
Transportation Fuels
February 1, 2021
February 19, 2021
March 4, 2021
March 18, 2021
March 18, 2021
Road StripingMarch 4, 2021March 15, 2021March 17, 2021March 31, 2021April 7, 2021
Paving
February 8, 2021February 26, 2021March 4, 2021March 25, 2021April 10, 2021
SignsFebruary 10, 2021March 2, 2021March 11, 2021April 1, 2021April 17, 2021
Culvert PipeMarch 3, 2021March 23, 2021March 31, 2021April 21, 2021May 1, 2021
Road SaltApril 16, 2021April 24, 2021April 29, 2021May 20, 2021June 5, 2021
Crack Sealing
May 15, 2021
May 22, 2021
July 16, 2021
Aug. 8, 2021

Snow Plow Cutting Edges
June 22, 2021
July 3, 2021
July 15, 2021
July 29, 2021
July 30, 2021
Office Supplies and Bulk Copy PaperJuly 30, 2021August 17, 2021September 9, 2021September 23, 2021September 28, 2021


Bid Documents

Bid documents may be accessed by clicking the links in the above schedule or by visiting the Cooperative Purchasing folder in the Document Center.