Brookhaven National Laboratory purchased more than $31 million worth of supplies and services from Long Island businesses in fiscal year 2000, a period from October 1, 1999 to September 30, 2000. In addition to Brookhaven’s buying goods and services
In fiscal year 2000, Brookhaven made 3,428 individual purchases on Long Island. Out of those, 2,731 totaling about $29.2 million were made in Suffolk County and 697 amounting to almost $2 million were made in Nassau County. New construction, environmental cleanup and repair of an aging infrastructure accounted for a large part of Brookhaven’s purchases during fiscal year 2000.
For example, Frendolph Construction of West Babylon was paid about $4.6 million for construction related to a project funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to determine how cosmic radiation in space affects astronauts. URS Corporation of Ronkonkoma received about $1.6 million for removing contamination above ground ducts from the Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor. The reactor had been in operation from 1953-68 and is currently in the process of being decommissioned. Bove Industries was paid over $1.5 million to upgrade Brookhaven’s sanitary system, which consists of over 20 miles of piping that transports wastes from the Laboratory’s building to its recently upgraded sewage treatment plant.
