A recent audit of the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority has found that much of the administrative work is subcontracted to outside agencies at a far higher price than the cost to handle such tasks in-house. Among other services contracted at a premium without accountability, PWSA pays somebody to handle their capital-planning budget. The company doing so has been handling this monthly task for more than 6 years without a contract. Have any of those monthly budgets ever included a line-item showing money that would be saved by PWSA doing it's own work? That's unlikely because a subcontractor can hardly be expected to recommend it's own termination, especially when the customer is a lucrative cash-cow that eschews contracts or any of the price-controls that are supposed to be used in such government work.