Lowest Bidder

[plonq]

The city went with (in their words) "the lowest bidder" for our new garbage and recycling collection. People who were supposed to have their garbage collected last Wednesday are still waiting to have it picked up, and now they are complaining about the lousy service.

We went with the company who promised to do the work for the least amount of money, and now we wonder why the service is not the greatest. It's possible that it is because they are using cheap equipment, with the fewest, lowest paid staff they can manage to get away with in order to come in with a really low bid but remain profitable.

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[kfops.livejournal.com]

I'm one of the lucky few (by the sounds of it) that has Monday pick-up, and I'm right at the beginning of the route. I usually get pick-up around 8 - 10am so far.

I know this isn't the same for everyone, and yeah... lowest bidder... no surprise there.

Just think of the upside though, by completely out-sourcing all garbage pick-up we won't keep any of the machinery so that the city can do it themselves. Then, once things go completely into the toilet the barrier to entry to do it ourselves will be so high that we'll just perpetually be in a cycle of out-sourcing!

I always maintain that the city should've kept some of the work themselves. It was always timely here.