How Montreal compares to other cities on organic waste treatment

When the city of Montreal went to public tenders last year for the first three organic waste processing plants that it plans for the island, it chose the same route as Toronto and several other public authorities in North America that have awarded all-encompassing design-build-operate-maintain contracts for their facilities.
One year later, however, Montreal has opened the bid envelopes to discover that its all-inclusive contracts failed to attract much — or any — competitive offers.