What is the Government Purchasing Alliance?

Cost Saving Programs for Counties

The U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance (GPA) is a cooperative purchasing program offering local government’s access to nationally solicited contracts that provide significant reductions in price and guaranteed delivery features.

The National Association of Counties (NACo), National Institute of Governmental Purchasing (NIGP), National League of Cities (NLC), Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO), and the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM), jointly sponsor the U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance.

Designed in cooperation with an Advisory Board of local government purchasing officials, U.S. Communities pools the purchasing power of public agencies, achieves bulk volume discounts on behalf of public agencies, competitively solicits quality products through a lead public agency and provides a purchasing forum for public agencies nationwide.

By pooling the potential purchasing power of counties throughout the nation and using volume purchasing as leverage in the private sector, the FSC can negotiate new and enhanced financial products and services for counties. These services offer better quality, improved benefits, and/or lower costs than individual counties can get on their own.

Current FSC programs include:

Cost Recovery/Cost Containment Services

Inmate Health Care Costs

Debt Collection

Pre-Employment Background Checks

Recovery of Insurance Assets for Environmental Liabilities

U.S. Communities

The U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance (GPA) is a cooperative purchasing program offering local governments access to nationally solicited contracts that provide significant reductions in price and guaranteed delivery features. U.S. Communities offers counties, cities, special districts, schools and nonprofits access to competitively solicited contracts that provide the best local government pricing available with no participation fees.

Suppliers interested in bidding on active USC solicitations click here.

Retirement Programs

The National Association of Counties, Nationwide Retirement Solutions and state associations of counties have partnered to provide county employees with a wide variety of retirement programs.

County Reinsurance Limited

County Reinsurance Limited (CRL) is a member-owned reinsurance company formed to stabilize the price of excess insurance and reinsurance costs of county association pools. For more information on CRL, contact Executive Director Phil Bell at (336) 766-3930 or crlphilbell@bellsouth.net.