Leaning into government work allows wastewater contractors to increase job opportunities, diversify capabilities, and demonstrate expertise. If these are goals your contracting company has set for 2021, now is a great time to get started. 

But winning government contracts doesn’t happen overnight. The process requires considerable work—including finding solicitations, evaluating requirements, and completing each piece of the bid.

Our white paper, Government Wastewater Contracts: A Practical Guide to Finding and Bidding on Opportunities, breaks down the details of each stage and includes recommendations for how to approach them most effectively.

Advice from Inside the Industry

When it comes to winning the solicitation, it’s important to make a good impression on the municipality, says Scott Laney, owner of Carolina’s Underground Services contracting company. 

Sewer systems are made up of various components that work together to transport wastewater from homes and buildings to a facility for treatment.

Take a look at some of our most popular content throughout the year, from equipment purchase guides to customer spotlights and quizzes.

In the last several weeks, we’ve taken the first steps to launch a new brand: a logo, aesthetic and voice that nod to the progress we’ve made as a company and embody our vision for the future. The milestones and roadblocks that made us who we are today have helped pave the road ahead.

Delaware-based Trinity Subsurface Engineering launched just two and a half years ago in mid-2018 with a focus on private utility locating and concrete scanning.

Most often, water and wastewater utilities operate using a separate budget from the municipality’s general budget. And that budget is typically divided between operation and maintenance (O&M) and capital spending, with a higher portion of funds used for O&M, according to a 2020 municipal water and wastewater infrastructure funding study by H2O Insights. 

The state of Pennsylvania and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) were placing intense pressure on Montgomery and Muncy boroughs, forcing them to make major changes and improvements to their aging and failing sewer infrastructure. 

When asked as a kid what you wanted to be when you grew up, you might’ve said an astronaut, maybe a professional baseball player or a teacher. You probably didn’t say you wanted to work around wastewater. 

Sewer systems and septic systems serve the same general purpose: providing a means for disposal of wastewater from homes and buildings to protect communities and ensure water quality. Both systems filter out black water and gray water, as well as bacteria and pathogens before the water is reintroduced into the environment.