At the end of the contract term, the contract will have to be renegotiated. Any changes desired by the City at that time can be incorporated into a new contract, or the City will need to re-propose the operations. The consortium entered into the same agreement with the union as the union previously had with the City. Since privatization, employee grievances have decreased from 38 in 1993 to 1 in 1994, and none in 1995. The City of Indianapolis has introduced competition into a variety of services originally performed by the government.
Privatization is just one of the several possible outcomes.
Invitations to competition should be public. Specifically, competition must be open to all qualified contestants to elicit everyone's most aggressive response. In the City's experience, these final negotiations nearly always enhance deals. Evaluations of competitive responses need to be inclusive. The City usually accomplishes this by forming ad hoc, cross-functional evaluation teams, representing all the major stakeholders and line organizations.