For cities, counties, towns, townships, and utility districts
Know what a technology will return before you commit public funds.
Independent, planning-level cost analysis for public works and utility decisions: leak detection, smart meters, LED streetlights, fleet telematics, building controls, and more. Plain-language briefs your council or board can act on, with every figure traced to its source.
- No equipment sales or vendor commissions
- Fixed-fee written quotes
- W-9 and certificate of insurance on request
Why governments use an independent analyst
Most technology cost estimates a public works department sees were written by someone selling the technology. Ours are not.
Nobody selling the product wrote it
We take no commissions, referral fees, or vendor funding, and every quote commits to that in writing. If the numbers do not work, the brief says so.
Every figure sourced, every range defended
We show what comparable governments actually achieved, the assumptions behind each figure, and which inputs would change the answer.
Written for the public record
Briefs are short, plain, and cited, because councils, auditors, residents, and reporters will read them.
What we analyze
Decisions where the costs and savings can be measured from records you already keep.
Water and wastewater
Leak detection, advanced metering, water loss screening, pump energy use
Streets and streetlights
LED conversion and controls, pavement condition tools, work order systems
Fleet
Telematics, right-sizing, electric and hybrid total cost of ownership
Buildings and energy
Building controls, lighting, solar agreements, utility rate reviews
Solid waste
Route optimization, cart tracking, recycling contamination tools
Parks and grounds
Weather-based irrigation, mowing equipment, facility booking
Fire and emergency services
Station alerting, apparatus cost of ownership, backup power for critical sites
Permitting and records
Online permitting and payments, records systems, public request portals
Built for small-purchase authority, documented by the book
Engagements are scoped and priced for standard small-purchase authority, and never split to get there. We maintain a 50-state reference of local purchasing thresholds, so every quote arrives in the form your office needs to file.
- Screening reports start here
- $750
- Written fixed-fee quote, in business days
- 2 days
- Also check or ACH, net 30
- P-card
- Will we split work to fit under a purchasing limit
- Never
How it works
Scoping call
Twenty minutes, no charge. You describe the decision; we determine whether an analysis is warranted.
Written quote
A fixed fee, a delivery date, and the short list of records we need. No retainer, no auto-renewal.
Analysis
We read your records line by line, set them against public data and published results from comparable programs, and check every figure against its source. Questions go back to your staff, not into an assumption.
Briefing
You receive the brief and a walkthrough for staff, and we can present it to your council or board.
Grounded in national public data
Before we ask you for anything, we start with what is already public about your community.
- Local governments in the 2022 Census of Governments
- 90,837
- Active community water systems in EPA records
- 49,378
- Counties scored in FEMA's National Risk Index
- 3,232
- Census spending data by function for every government
- FY2022
Verify us before you call
Any vendor handling a public decision should be verifiable in five minutes. Every item below can be checked independently.
- Registered U.S. businessLeMay Civic Advisory is a trade name of LeMay Ventures LLC, organized in Colorado. Search the state business registry by the legal name.
- Federal entity registrationSAM.gov Unique Entity ID N6WPEQQNUSP5
- Documents on requestW-9, certificate of insurance, and capability statement, sent from our company domain.
- A real phone and address719-323-0472 · Dewhirst Dr, Colorado Springs, CO 80951
- We never ask for payment up frontNo invoice before a signed quote or purchase order, and we never change payment instructions by email.
Have a decision headed to your council or board?
Bring us the department and the technology. One call determines whether an analysis is warranted. If it is not, we will tell you.