Lee County Procurement Management

Lee County has five cities and three distinct communities in Florida. Lee County Government is overseen by a five-member board of county commissioners. The county s government provides services to the more than 575,000 residents of Lee County and its cities. The county offers world-class beaches and reasonable living costs in southwest Florida. Lee County offers new and expanding transportation networks, including the interstate 75 corridor, connecting Lee County and Tampa to the north and Miami to the east. The Southwest Florida International Airport and Page Field, the general aviation airport are designated as foreign trade zones. Lee County's advanced telecommunications options include SONET rings with extensive survivable fiber optic backbones, state-of-the-art wireless Internet access, including a network access point, broadband service and aggressive coaxial cable options.

The Department of Transportation operates under the government of Lee County, Fla., which also operates public works, traffic section, animal services, library and public safety departments. The Department of Transportation is responsible for aviation and public transit options, waterways and railroads. The department plans and implements integrated transportation systems. It maintains an operations division that provides maintenance for fresh water drainage canals, pipes, ditches, mowing, street sweeping, sidewalks, pavement patching and bridge operations. The Department of Transportation additionally operates an engineering services division that provides project management and design engineering for the county's transportation capital improvement program. The department maintains a location Fort Myers, Fla.