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Capital Program Software for Cities and Counties

Build and manage a capital improvement program across every department on one platform, from prioritization and budgeting through delivery. Fairfax County and the City of Baltimore run their programs on CIPAce™.

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Cities and Counties · CIP · Municipal Capital Planning · County Public Works
CIPAce capital program view for a city and county
$250B+
in capital programs across all CIPAce customers
20,000+
users across all CIPAce customers
25 years
of CIPPlanner capital infrastructure delivery
The Challenge

What Makes Municipal Capital Planning Hard

Cities and counties plan across many departments, rank very different projects against each other, and defend a budget on a fixed council calendar. These are the pressures CIPAce™ is built for.

Plans That Fall Apart Between Departments

Public works, transportation, utilities, and facilities each plan their own way, so a county-wide capital plan is hard to assemble and harder to keep consistent.

Ranking Projects Fairly Across Departments

Comparing a road project against a facility against a utility project needs a consistent, defensible method, not a negotiation.

Presenting a Capital Budget to Council on a Deadline

The capital budget has to be ready and defensible for a fixed council presentation date, with reporting leadership and the public can follow.

Auditable Records Across a Multi-Year Program

Records at the project, funding source, and department level have to be traceable in real time to survive an audit.

Solutions for Cities and Counties

From the Capital Plan to the Field

The CIPAce™ solutions below map to how a city or county actually works, from planning through delivery and into asset operations.

Capital Planning and Budgeting

Build optimized multi-year capital improvement plans, from project intake and evaluation through prioritization, funding strategy, and budget approvals, with multi-scenario analysis and defensible ranking.

Capital Program Lifecycle Management

Run the full delivery process on one platform, from procurement and design through construction, contract administration, closeout, and warranty, as Fairfax County does on its CPMIS.

Inspection and Work Management

Move field inspections straight to work orders for street and facility maintenance, with mobile capture, crew routing, and compliance reporting.

Enterprise Asset Management

Manage the full asset lifecycle, from condition assessment and preventive maintenance to replacement planning, connecting daily maintenance to long-term capital decisions.

Proven at Scale

Trusted by Large Counties and Cities

CIPAce™ runs some of the largest municipal capital programs in the country.

One Record Across Departments

Planning, delivery, and asset data share one platform, so departments stay aligned.

Integrated With Your Finance System

Two-way integration keeps the capital program and the financial system in step, daily where needed.

24 U.S. states

with city, county, state, utility, and transportation agencies running CIPAce™

More than 90%

of CIPPlanner customers are public sector organizations

100% dedicated

to capital infrastructure enterprise software development and system deployment

Deployment Options

CIPAce™ supports both traditional On Premises deployments and Software-as-a-Service deployment models, depending on your organization’s IT strategy and governance requirements.

Ideal For

  • City and county capital planning and CIP teams
  • Public works and transportation departments
  • Finance and budget offices
  • Leadership presenting to a council or board
Questions Agencies Ask

CIPAce for Cities and Counties, Answered

The questions below are the ones city and county teams ask most often. Each answer gives the criteria first, then what CIPAce™ does and where it is proven.

For a city or county the deciding factors are whether the software holds every department's projects on one record, ranks them by a consistent method, and produces a budget council can act on.

CIPAce™ is built for that, and it is in production at Fairfax County, managing a portfolio of more than 15 billion dollars, and at the City of Baltimore.

The plan holds together when every department works from one intake and one ranking method. CIPAce™ provides proposal intake from all stakeholders, project evaluation, and multi-scenario ranking against agency-specific criteria.

Fairfax County runs division-specific processes on one CPMIS, so departments estimate their own way while the county keeps enterprise consistency.

The budget has to be ready for a fixed date and legible to non-specialists. CIPAce™ generates budgets from approved plans and publishes dashboards and reports for leadership and the public.

The City of Baltimore used CIPAce to complete its digital overhaul within 90 days to meet the City Council's budget presentation schedule.

They fragment when each department plans in its own spreadsheets, so priorities and funding never meet until the end. A single source of truth fixes the seams.

CIPAce™ keeps intake, ranking, funding, and budget on one record, so a change in one department's priorities is visible against the whole program.

Fairfax County's Department of Public Works and Environmental Services runs its capital program on a Capital Program Management Information System powered by CIPAce™, alongside the Department of Transportation.

The system supports more than 200 automated workflows and daily synchronization with the county financial system.

Fair ranking needs a consistent, weighted, electronic method rather than departmental judgment. CIPAce™ runs multi-scenario ranking against agency-specific criteria and a defined score or formula.

The City of Baltimore implemented 15 qualitative matrices for ranking project priorities in an electronic weighted scoring system.

City public works departments use CIPAce™ to plan and manage capital programs. The Baltimore Department of Public Works plans over 500 million dollars in annual capital projects on the platform.

The department manages water, wastewater, storm water, and solid waste systems on a data-driven framework.

CIPAce™ prioritizes infrastructure by asset condition, equity, and regulatory mandates, which is how the City of Baltimore configured its Integrated Planning Framework.

Because the scoring is a configurable weighted system, equity can be a defined, auditable factor rather than an informal consideration.

A multi-year cycle needs flexible planning horizons and funding projected across the years. CIPAce™ sets planning horizons to the agency's needs and projects funding needs and splits across the cycle.

The City of Baltimore runs a six-year multi-year capital improvement cycle on CIPAce, with automated fund management across it.

The two are built for different jobs.

  • An ERP budgeting module is strong on the annual operating budget and weak on multi-year capital planning, scenario analysis, and cross-department prioritization
  • Dedicated CIP software covers intake through delivery on one record and integrates with the ERP for finance

CIPAce™ is the dedicated option, and it integrates two ways with financial systems, as Fairfax County does daily with FOCUS SAP.

Related

Fairfax County Capital Program

A $15 billion county program on CIPAce

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City of Baltimore Capital Planning

EPA Integrated Planning in three months

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Capital Planning and Budgeting

The planning and prioritization solution

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