City Procurement

As the leading national government purchasing cooperative, U.S. Communities provides city governments with access to premium products and services at the best overall supplier government pricing.

We Make City Procurement Easier

If you are required to issue a request for proposal (RFP) when making city procurement decisions, U.S. Communities can shorten the process for your organization.

All U.S. Communities contracts have been competitively solicited by a lead public agency in accordance with its public purchasing rules and regulations. Each solicitation contains language allowing public agencies to purchase from any U.S. Communities contract and access the best pricing and other benefits. Every U.S. Communities contract is available for city procurement officials to use subject to their own purchasing rules and regulations. Although each agency may have different city purchasing procedures to follow for city procurement, applying these competitive principles satisfies the competitive solicitation requirements of most agencies.
 
For example, if your city purchasing department needs to purchase printers, instead of issuing an RFP you could simply find a competitively solicited city procurement printer contract through U.S. Communities. In fact, our Office Depot contract has great prices on printers for public agencies.

Advantages include:

• Free membership – No costs, fees or obligations to buy.
• Lower prices – The best overall supplier government pricing on thousands of the best brands in a wide variety of categories, services and solutions.
• Expert assistance – We help navigate all contract issues with suppliers, from service requests to price guarantees.
• No minimum purchasing requirements – Buy as little or as much as you need.

Leading the Way in City Procurement Resources and Solutions

U.S. Communities is proud to be the only government cooperative purchasing organization to be sponsored by the National League of Cities (NLC) and the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM). As sponsors, these organizations connect procurement officials searching for city government purchasing programs with U.S. Communities to obtain the best overall supplier government pricing.

Get started with U.S. Communities Today!

Register now to participate with U.S. Communities government purchasing cooperative – it’s quick, easy and completely free – and learn how to purchase under any of our competitively solicited contracts.