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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.
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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 Service | Estimated Needs Requested from Towns | Estimated Needs Due | Bids Available | Bid Open | Bid Awarded |
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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 Striping | March 4, 2021 | March 15, 2021 | March 17, 2021 | March 31, 2021 | April 7, 2021 |
Paving | February 8, 2021 | February 26, 2021 | March 4, 2021 | March 25, 2021 | April 10, 2021 |
Signs | February 10, 2021 | March 2, 2021 | March 11, 2021 | April 1, 2021 | April 17, 2021 |
Culvert Pipe | March 3, 2021 | March 23, 2021 | March 31, 2021 | April 21, 2021 | May 1, 2021 |
Road Salt | April 16, 2021 | April 24, 2021 | April 29, 2021 | May 20, 2021 | June 5, 2021 |
Crack Sealing | May 15, 2021 | May 22, 2021 | June 4, 2021 | June 17, 2021 | June 18, 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 Paper | July 30, 2021 | August 17, 2021 | September 9, 2021 | September 23, 2021 | September 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.