# North Carolina eVP #280-10-26-0001

Lexington Project ALIGN Utility Operations and Financial Consulting

**Posted:** October 13, 2026
**Respond By:** November 02, 2026
**Identifier:** 280-10-26-0001
**NAICS:** 541611, 541614

The City of Lexington is seeking an implementation-focused consulting team to strengthen utility operations, billing integrity, and long-term financial planning.
- **Government buyer:** City of Lexington, North Carolina; Purchasing office. Contact: Britt Smith, Purchasing Officer.
- **Opportunity:** Project ALIGN (RFP 10-26-0001), an integrated utility consulting engagement. No consulting firms or product manufacturers are named as bidders or required providers.
- **Requested services:** Assess utility organization and operational readiness; map current and future processes; develop policies, procedures, and SOPs; review utility billing, revenue integrity, meter reading, sanitation billing, and third-party data controls; and provide implementation support and staff training.
- **Financial studies:** Conduct water and sewer rate and system development fee studies; analyze stormwater billing and finances; and provide management-level electric and natural gas financial assessments. Planning deliverables include a ten-year water and sewer forecast, a recommended five-year water and sewer rate structure, and a five-year stormwater financial plan. These are planning horizons, not contract terms.
- **Named system:** The work is expected to use existing systems, including Cayenta. Cayenta is identified as an existing system, not as a required OEM or vendor.
- **Deliverables and requirements:** Provide practical, maintainable process maps, reconciliations, management tools, editable financial models, decision-ready reports, data assurance, implementation assistance, training, and transition guidance. Recommendations should be equitable, workable, legally supportable, understandable, and sustainable.
- **Products and quantities:** No physical products, product part numbers, or product quantities are specified; the attachment lists one integrated consulting-services line item.
- **Period:** Commencement is anticipated in November 2026; end date and total contract duration are unspecified.

### Description

The City of Lexington is seeking proposals from experienced consulting firms or multidisciplinary teams to support Project ALIGN, an initiative focused on utility organizational readiness and financial strategy. Scope includes operational and organizational assessment, process mapping, policy and SOP development, utility billing and data integrity controls, water and sewer rate and system development fee studies, stormwater billing and financial analysis, and implementation support. The City expects practical, implementation-oriented outputs such as reports, reconciliations, process maps, financial models, data cleanup, training, and transition steps. Proposals are due November 2, 2026, at 4:00 PM, and the source instructs vendors to submit through the proposal upload link in the solicitation document rather than through the eVP App.

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