County Executives Mangano And Levy Announce Second Joint Purchase To Achieve Millions In Taxpayer Savings

LI Purchasing Council Combines Purchasing Powers to Assist Municipalities

While continuing his aggressive efforts to cut expenses and save taxpayer money, County ExecutiveEdward P.Mangano today announced that Nassau County will once again partner with Suffolk County on a cooperative bid for treatment chemicals. This second joint purchase, which includes towns and local water districts, is the Long Island Intergovernmental Relations Purchasing Council’s (LIPC)second joint purchase after having completed a successful first bid for copy paper saved Nassau County thousands of dollars. County Executive Mangano and Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy formed the LIPC shortly after Mangano took office in January 2010.

“Bulk purchasing is just one of a myriad of ways to reduce costs for all taxpayers,” said County Executive Mangano. “By working together, we can and will assist all municipalities in achieving cost-savings.”

The LIPC last week approved a bid for a for a bulk purchase of wastewater, sewer treatment plant and pool chemicals.The bid will open on October 26th. In addition to Nassau and Suffolk counties, the towns of Oyster Bay and Brookhaven, the Village of Sands Point, and five Nassau water districts (Glen Cove, Jericho, Oyster Bay, Massapequa and South Farmingdale) have combined purchasing power on the chemical bid. Other municipalities who have passed resolutions to become members of the LIPC may buy chemicals off this contract once the bid is awarded. This chemical bid seeks to purchase approximately 5.6 million gallons of Sodium Hypochlorite, 765,000 gallons of Sodium Hydroxide-Caustic-Soda and 32,000 gallons of Calcium Hypochlorite.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy stated, “Our goal in creating the Long Island Purchasing Council was to save dollars through economies of scale. By bringing local governments together on bidding as one entity we can yield potential savings on items as mundane as paper or even wastewater treatment supplies.”

Nassau County spends about $608,500.00 annually on two of the chemicals and purchases approximately 2.7 million gallons of Sodium Hypochlorite and 82,000 gallons of Sodium Hydroxide annually, which are mainly used at Nassau’s two sewer treatment plants in Bay Park and Cedar Creek. Additionally, chemicals are used at Nassau County public pools located in Cantiague Park, Nickerson Beach, Christopher Morley Park, North Woodmere Park, and Wantagh Park.

For more information on how to become a member of the LIPC, municipalities should visit: http://www.lipurchasingcouncil.org.