Capital Planning In The U.S. Water Market â A Guide For Business Developers By Dave Cox Readying a bid for a contract can be an expensive and time-consuming process. That’s why successful contractors try to only target opportunities they think they have a good chance of winning. Doing that, however, requires constantly looking for those kinds of opportunities. And one place that contractors to the water and wastewater industry can find them is in the capital plans issued by the government entities that build, own, and run water and wastewater treatment plants and systems. Capital Plans And How To Find Them