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Municipalities ready for free claim
For municipalities
Free to claim. Cheaper to keep. Worth paying for.
Water Hawk is free for verified municipal staff. You get a dashboard for your own utility, alerts on bids that match your system, and the ability to publish your own procurement history. If you share that history with us, we comp peer pricing for life.
Civic
Free
The municipal dashboard, claim flow, and bid alerts. Always free for verified municipal staff.
- - Claim your municipality with a verified work email
- - See your own profile and your peers
- - Get bid alerts on procurement that fits your system
Peer Pricing
Free with contribution
Per-chemical peer pricing distribution, cooperative-contract offers, and overpayment flags. Comped for life when you share 5 award records.
- - Median price your peers pay for each chemical
- - Cooperative contracts that beat your current spend
- - Annual savings estimate per overpayment flag
Optional $50/year subscription for systems that prefer to pay rather than contribute.
Contribute
Free + comp
Upload your own procurement history. Five qualifying records (awarded bids with chemical, quantity, unit price, vendor) comps Peer Pricing for life.
- - Improves your peers’ reports as much as your own
- - Pulls your data into the national chemical lane benchmarks
- - No payment card required
The flywheel
The more municipalities contribute their procurement history, the sharper the per-chemical peer-pricing distribution becomes. A contributing muni saves an estimated $8,000-$40,000 per year on chemical contracts the first time the report flags an overpayment. Suppliers and Infrastructure investors pay separately for downstream intelligence built on the same corpus, which is how we keep the municipal tier free.
What you get on day one
- Verified domain claim: email from a .gov or your utility domain auto-verifies; otherwise an operator reviews the claim within one business day.
- Premium dossier credit: verified municipal staff get one free premium intelligence report on their own system as part of the welcome flow.
- Bid alerts: tailored to your system size and treatment regime. You can ignore them; you can also forward them to the right person on your team.
A note on what we do not do
We do not sell your procurement records to suppliers. Aggregated, anonymized statistics power the supplier and investor segments; per-muni records stay with you and your authorized peers. Detailed policy at /legal/privacy.
Common questions
Is Water Hawk free for municipalities?
Yes. Water Hawk is free for verified municipal water utility staff. Verification happens by matching your work email domain to your utility. You get a dashboard, bid alerts, and peer-pricing comparables at no cost.
How does the verification work?
Email from a .gov or your utility domain auto-verifies. Other domains route to a manual review by a Water Hawk operator, typically within one business day.
What is Peer Pricing?
Per-chemical peer-pricing distribution showing the median price your peers pay for each treatment chemical, cooperative-contract offers, and overpayment flags. Free for life when you share five qualifying procurement records. A $50/year subscription is available for systems that prefer to pay rather than contribute.
How does Water Hawk make money if municipalities pay nothing?
Chemical suppliers and infrastructure investors pay subscription fees for intelligence built on the cleaned, anonymized corpus. Municipal contributions improve the corpus, which is why we comp peer pricing for contributors. Individual records are never sold; only aggregated benchmarks are surfaced to paid segments.
What if my email is not a .gov address?
You can still claim. An operator reviews the claim against the published authority web property. Approval is typically within one business day.