Bidding on Trash Facility Reopened
Bowing to complaints that the system was tainted, Los Angeles city officials Thursday agreed to reopen the bidding between two firms competing for a lucrative 20-year contract to operate a $235-million trash-burning facility in South-Central Los Angeles.
The action was taken after Signal Environmental Systems, one of the bidders, protested that confidential papers it filed with the city were obtained by its rival, Ogden-Martin Corp. No evidence of impropriety was found, a city spokesman said.
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