Follow the Money

WATER DISTRIBUTION CONTROL SYSTEM& LIFT STATION TELEMETRY

CH2M HILL INC

NominalComplete — fully paid

Sole and Single Source

This is a sole and single source contract with CH2M HILL INC to deliver “WATER DISTRIBUTION CONTROL SYSTEM& LIFT STATION TELEMETRY”. The city authorized spending up to $2,100,903, and $2,098,616 has been paid so far (100% of the ceiling).

Authorized (spending ceiling)

$2,100,903

Ordered / committed

$2,100,903 (100%)

Actually paid

$2,098,616 (100%)

from 69 checks in the city checkbook

Contract record lists $1,949,615 in its delivery-order field — understates actual checks.

Timeline

Apr 2, 2010 → —

Kicked off Nov 4, 2009 · last check Dec 23, 2025

Why this status?

No expiration date on record — timeline signals can't be computed.

These are transparent signals, not judgments. A large unspent balance may be a legitimate multi-year ceiling or indefinite-delivery contract.

Payments on this contract

69 checkbook lines totaling $2,098,616 are booked directly against this contract — this is the amount actually paid.

The contract’s own record lists $1,949,615 in its “delivery-order referenced” field — a $149,001 understatement. That field only counts payments made through delivery orders, so we treat the checkbook total above as the real amount paid.

Where the money came fromEnterprise (fee-supported) · 100%

Enterprise (fee-supported) · S-Wastewater Improvements, W-Water Improvements$2,098,616 (100%)

Funding source is read from the fund each check was drawn on. It tells you who is accountable: voters & Council for bond/general-capital money, ratepayers & utility commissions for enterprise money, Council for the General Fund.

What the money paid for

Electrical Engineering$2,098,616 (100%)

Grouped from the city’s own line-item descriptions. Vague or generic labels are themselves a transparency signal worth questioning.

See all 69 individual checks

DateAmountProject / fundWhat forStatus

Dec 23, 2025$1,966LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Dec 23, 2025$3,416Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Dec 11, 2025$4,132LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Dec 11, 2025$9,847Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Aug 18, 2025$4,462Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Aug 12, 2025$4,106Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Aug 12, 2025$1,943LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Apr 29, 2025$4,713LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Apr 29, 2025$5,743LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Apr 29, 2025$5,743Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Apr 29, 2025$4,713Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Mar 10, 2025$23,626Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Mar 10, 2025$14,139LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Dec 19, 2024$28,218Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Dec 19, 2024$1,188Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Dec 19, 2024$1,188LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Nov 4, 2024$1,098Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Nov 4, 2024$685LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Oct 29, 2024$17,293Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Oct 29, 2024$10,780LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Oct 12, 2020$5,495LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Oct 12, 2020$10,667Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Jun 18, 2020$36,165Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Apr 6, 2020$35,394Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Feb 12, 2020$54,060Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Sep 16, 2019$10,404Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Sep 16, 2019$6,936LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Sep 5, 2019$12,923Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Sep 5, 2019$8,615LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Oct 12, 2018$68,457LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Oct 12, 2018$102,685Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Aug 5, 2016$21,619Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Aug 5, 2016$14,413LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Mar 11, 2016$19,449Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Mar 11, 2016$62,849Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Mar 11, 2016$41,899LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Dec 31, 2015$19,153LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Feb 19, 2015$90,135Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Feb 19, 2015$90,135LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Aug 21, 2014$212,124Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Aug 21, 2014$141,416LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Mar 13, 2014$10,785Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

May 8, 2013$92,083Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Feb 5, 2013$35,809Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Oct 24, 2012$7,818Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Aug 28, 2012$4,706Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Aug 28, 2012$9,192Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Apr 27, 2012$7,301Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Mar 29, 2012$12,982Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Nov 23, 2011$14,181Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Oct 18, 2011$5,016Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Sep 23, 2011$3,650Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Jul 27, 2011$11,079Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Jul 20, 2011$20,474LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Jul 20, 2011$32,918Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Jul 8, 2011$3,000LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Apr 26, 2011$20,270LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Apr 13, 2011$51,709LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Mar 30, 2011$78,597LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Jan 31, 2011$64,214LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Sep 10, 2010$2,938Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Jun 17, 2010$2,400Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Jun 17, 2010$2,400LS Telemetry-Top End & Con ReplacementS-Wastewater ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Apr 26, 2010$880Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Apr 5, 2010$80,269Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Mar 30, 2010$97,224Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Mar 18, 2010$56,927Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Jan 22, 2010$73,649Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Nov 4, 2009$82,150Water Impvs CitywideW-Water ImprovementsElectrical EngineeringPaid

Linked via the contract number appearing as a payment’s source document (rf_doc_id = 09060501513) in the Austin checkbook. See all payments to this vendor →

Accountability

Administered by

Contract and Land Management Department

Delivered by (1 firm)

CH2M HILL INC

We couldn’t automatically match this contract to a City Council vote (the voting-record dataset starts in 2023, and older or consent-agenda items may not match by name). Most contracts are approved collectively on the Council consent agenda — so accountability runs through the managing department above and the Council vote on the award date, not an individual sponsor.

Documents & oversight

Contract type

Direct contract — billed against this contract number.

Find the solicitation package on Austin Finance Online →

Search solicitation PWP0066 (RFQS) to open the original scope of work, bid documents, and the executed contract.

Assessing delivery vs. commitment: Austin doesn’t publish structured project milestones, so we can’t auto-verify that the work matches the contract. What we can do is show what the money was invoiced for (above) and link the approved scope — then, where it matters, dispatch a Spotter to confirm the work on the ground. Contracts whose purpose is well-documented vs. vague is exactly the signal that tells us where to look first.

Source & provenance

Contract number 09060501513 (CT) · Department 6100 · Managed by Contract and Land Management Department · Pers / Prof / Plan Svcs (252)
From snapshot 2026-07-28.

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