亚特兰大市的水、废水和下水道系统必须符合日益严格的环境要求，同时为城市用户提供高质量的服务。由于需要立即实施重大资本改善计划（CIP）以实现这两个目标，纽约市面临着支付这些成本的两个选择:要么持续提高用户费率以满足运营和偿债要求，要么在现有运营中找到节约以抵消不断上升的成本。在最近提高了供水和废水处理率后，该市决定评估降低运营成本的潜力。为了帮助评估节约成本的方案，该市聘请了一个顾问团队进行分阶段运营评估。根据中标情况，该市每年将在运营供水系统方面节约2000多万美元，在20年的期限内总计4亿美元。 由于此次采购取得了巨大的成功，以及该过程的全面性和开放性，预计它将成为水行业的典范。

The City of Atlanta's water, wastewater, and sewer systems must comply with increasingly stringent environmental requirements while providing City users with high-quality service. With the need to implement its major capital improvement program (CIP) immediately to accomplish these twin objectives, the City was faced with two choices to pay those costs: either continually raise user rates to meet operations and debt service requirements, or find savings in existing operations to offset rising costs. After having recently raised water and wastewater rates, the City decided to assess the potential to reduce operations costs. To help evaluate its options for cost savings, the City retained a team of consultants to perform a phased operations assessment. Based on the winning bid, the City will save more than $20 million per year in operating the water system, which totals to $400 million over a 20-year term. Because of the resounding success of this procurement and the comprehensive and open nature of the process, it is expected to become a model for the water industry.