Dive Summary:

• Ten companies bid on providing waste collection services for the city of Detroit, Michigan.
• The Public Works Department and purchasing division will rate the sealed bids and make recommendations to emergency manager Kevyn Orr sometime in early October.
• The move towards privatization is expected to save the financially unstable city $15 million every year, with the current annual cost of waste services estimated at $50 million.
• ​Companies who placed bids included Waste Management, Midwestern Sanitation, Republic Services, Emterra Group, Kurtz Brothers, Resource Recovery Systems, Advanced Disposal, Unity Midwest Waste & Recycling J Fons and Rizzo Services.

From the article:

Nowling [a spokesman for the emergency manager.]said the job will go to the company deemed best-suited for the work and not necessarily the one with the lowest bid.