Some words about us

A member owned cooperative, serving all the local governments and agencies. Local Government Diversity Procurement Cooperative (Local Government) establishes and provides nationally leveraged and competitively solicited purchasing contracts in cooperation with each independent state statute.

The Objective

The objective of the Local Government to is to maintain and host a national diversity procurement cooperative that would include diversity in accordance to independent policies and government statues that would be a Coat Savings for the member. Our goal is to provide our members with requested programs and services created, coordinated and delivered through a cooperative effort between all participating members. Our purpose therefore is to serve our membership by:

1. Acquiring and providing procurement opportunities for goods and services needed by Local Government Members,
2. To implement procurement compliance that would include certified diversity vendors.
3. To bring the benefits of national volume pricing to Local Government Members and
4. To satisfy as many of the competitive bidding requirements of Local Government and Local Government Members as possible.
5. To utilize the affiliate eProcurement tools to bridge the certified diversity businesses.

Our Commitment

The Local Government is committed to serving you, our members and customers. We offer a quality, measurable and cost-effective procurement solution, by taking our members' common needs, researching the industry and returning the opportunity to purchase through national contracts. We offer the very best products and services at the lowest possible prices by creating an alliance between buyers and suppliers connecting with diversity business enterprises. A unified procurement alliance makes it important that we work together in order to create and develop a procurement solution.

Mission

To meet the needs of our members by providing valued solutions that are respected by our suppliers.

Vision

Creating an alliance between buyers and suppliers connecting with diversity business enterprises