Re: Help in Michigan

John -- I'm copying Janine and Barb on this message as they are most likely
to be able to identify someone.

Janine and Barb -- could one of you get in touch with John?

John Stokes@AZURIX
11/02/2000 06:45 AM

To: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron
cc: Amanda K Martin/HOU/AZURIX@AZURIX
Subject: Help in Michigan

Once again, I come to you for help. We were awarded a biosolids dewatering
contract in Grand Rapids, Michigan about a month ago. We had bid against the
incumbent, a company called Synagro. You may recall that Azurix is in
litigation with Syangro over a busted acquisition, but the two events are not
related. In any case, we were low bidder, and the recommendation was made to
award the contract to us. Synagro has been working to get the award
overturned, and appears to have been successful. It is not yet clear whether
they are going to award the deal to Synagro, or re-bid. It is not even clear
what the grounds are for overturning the award, which indicates that it may
be pure politics.

Do we have any good political consultants that could help us in Grand
Rapids? We do not have much of a presence in that area, and were responding
to a publicly advertised bid. Price and technical qualifications were the
only issues. Politics did not enter into it until now, so we were caught a
little flat-footed.

Any suggestions?