Brookhaven Lab Added Over $26 Million to the Long Island Economy in 2004
January 26, 2005
UPTON, NY - Brookhaven National Laboratory purchased $26.7 million worth of supplies and services from Long Island businesses in fiscal year 2004, a period from October 1, 2003 to September 30, 2004.
In addition to Brookhaven's buying goods and services from Long Island vendors, most of the Laboratory's approximately 2,700 employees live in Suffolk County and do most of their shopping on Long Island. All told, employee salaries, wages and fringe benefits account for 61 percent, or about $279 million of the Laboratory's total annual budget of $454 million.
Owned and primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Laboratory creates and operates major facilities available to university, industrial and government personnel for basic and applied research in the physical, biomedical and environmental sciences, and energy technologies.
In fiscal year 2004, Brookhaven's total procurement budget was approximately $160 million. Out of that amount, about $22.4 million was spent on 3,000 purchases in Suffolk County, and about $4.3 million went toward 507 purchases made in Nassau County.
Mary-Faith Healey, manager of Brookhaven's Procurement and Property Management Office, which handles purchasing for the Laboratory, said, "We buy locally whenever we can. We like to support the local economy on Long Island, since it is our home."
Brookhaven's top two local vendors in fiscal year 2004 were Bensin Contracting, Inc. of Holtsville and Modular Devices, Inc. of Shirley. Bensin Contracting, Inc. was the number one vendor with a contract with Brookhaven for more than $1.94 million to supply a groundwater cleanup system on the Laboratory site, part of a long-term environmental remediation project at the Laboratory. Bensin was the number two vendor in fiscal year 2003. In that year, the company installed groundwater treatment systems south of the Brookhaven site.
Brookhaven contracted to pay Modular Devices approximately $1.90 million to construct low-voltage power supplies, which will be used in the ATLAS detector in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The custom-made power supply - unique in size and number of voltages and made to withstand radiation - will be placed more than 300 feet underground in a detector the size of a seven-story building. Brookhaven is managing the U.S. participation in fabricating the ATLAS detector, which, after it begins operations in 2007, has breakthrough discovery potential concerning the nature of elementary particles. The U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation funded the ATLAS project.
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