What You Do, and How We Support It

You help water utilities, from municipalities to regional authorities, maintain compliance with the EPA lead and copper rule plus state-level requirements.

We assist you determine the current challenges and opportunities related to Lead Service Lines (LSLs) and identify projects prior to and during RFPs.

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Market Challenges and Opportunities

Navigating the Dynamic Lead Service Lines Market

The municipal and industrial water and wastewater industries continue to gradually evolve, and are helping your clients keep pace with regulatory and technological changes. Today's drinking water and water treatment utilities face a myriad of challenges, such as protecting customers from exposure to lead in drinking water. Dynamic regulatory changes include the lead and copper rule.

The challenge in identifying and winning LSL project bids include:

  • 1,000s of utilities nationwide that need to maintain electronic systems verifying program compliance
  • Identification and evaluation of the possible risk associated in LSL project bidding
  • Development of the profit-driven bidding strategies

Knowing the sources of project funding is becoming more important than ever. Municipal budgets, shared across multiple community services are stretched more than ever. Federal awards can be critical, and you can play a part in helping your clients secure needed funds.

As an industry leader in this critical market, your work matters. We empower you with business intelligence to see what lies ahead and make smarter decisions that benefit both you and your customers.

The Business Intelligence You Need

In the Lead Service Lines market, you need insight to enable the right sales conversations and marketing investments. We provide dashboards containing current data, configured to your business, so you have fast accurate answers. This includes:

Operational Details: Nation-wide, operating parameters focusing on community water systems.

Real-Time Conversations: What are the hot topics being discussed in board meetings? For example, aging infrastructure, climate adaptation, lead service line replacement, non-revenue water loss, and PFAS detection and treatment.

Capital Improvement Plans: CIPs are used by public organizations to forecast 3 - 8 year capital costs, funding, and timing for large LSL projects. We carefully review 100,000s of pages of CIPs from large municipal governments and transit authorities, curating data on 10,000s of municipal projects.

Funding Mechanisms: Revolving funds, grants, and other sources of capital project funding.

Partnerships: Knowing the influencer matters, including city leaders and their strategic partners for service delivery. Our data can help prime contractors find the best subs, and visa-versa.

Why Our Approach Works

We curate data, from 100s of sources, so that your team doesn't need to.

Data includes:

  • 49,000+ U.S. water systems and service connections
  • Lead limits in drinking water
  • Corrosion Control and Water Treatment Processes
  • Lead Capital Projects and Pipe Replacement Bids
  • Lead Drivers and News

You access live navigable data rather than static reports. .

Problems You Avoid

Our customers want to avoid the pain of being surprised.

Opportunities around the water industry don't happen overnight. There are months or years of capital planning involved. If you plan ahead, you can anticipate and engage future opportunities, long ahead of receiving that dreaded cold RFP.

Our customers don't hate RFPs, they hate cold RFPs. The ones that they could have influenced, where the owner/operator did not take the best strategic approach to the market.

The only way to avoid the pain of a surprise RFP, or even worse, being left out of consideration is to have good business intelligence on the market.

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LET'S START TODAY

Contact us for a mutual discovery of BI needs and solutions. We help you run the race just a bit faster, and sometimes, that is all you need.

dave@firmographs.com
510-671-0373