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Our fleet management consulting services include, but are not limited to - organization structure and staffing assessment, business best practice review, competitiveness assessment, cost of services analysis, <a href="javascript:NewWindow('http://www.mercury-assoc.com/fleet/preventive-maintenance.htm','acepopup','409','550','center','front');" style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000000">preventive maintenance program design and review</font></a>, fleet size and composition review, vehicle and equipment utilization study, fleet safety review, lease versus buy analysis, leasing and procurement contract auditing and negotiation, <a href="javascript:NewWindow('http://www.mercury-assoc.com/fleet/fleet-maintenance-outsourcing.htm','acepopup','380','510','center','front');" style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000000">maintenance outsourcing and in-sourcing feasibility assessment</font></a>, maintenance outsourcing contract negotiation, <a href="javascript:NewWindow('http://www.mercury-assoc.com/fleet/managed-competition.htm','acepopup','380','560','center','front');" style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000000">managed competition assistance</font></a>, motor pool assessment, <a href="javascript:NewWindow('http://www.mercury-assoc.com/fleet/fleet-replacement-planning.htm','acepopup','339','515','center','front');" style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000000">replacement plan development and acquisition funding alternatives</font></a>, <a href="javascript:NewWindow('http://www.mercury-assoc.com/fleet/fleet-charge-back-system.htm','acepopup','378','520','center','front');" style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000000">charge - back rate development</font></a>, vehicle and equipment consolidation study, <a href="javascript:NewWindow('http://www.mercury-assoc.com/fleet/info-sys-implement.htm','acepopup','320','435','center','front');" style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000000">information systems implementation</font></a> and <a href="javascript:NewWindow('http://www.mercury-assoc.com/fleet/info-sys-upgrade.htm','acepopup','320','415','center','front');" style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000000">replacement services</font></a>, application hosting, <a href="javascript:NewWindow('http://www.mercury-assoc.com/fleet/parts-management-services.htm','acepopup','385','550','center','front');" style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000000">parts management review</font></a>, product and services procurement study, fuel management practice assessment, facility design and condition assessment, regulation and legislation compliance analysis, and alternative fuel program planning. <a href="http://www.mercury-assoc.com/services.asp">Click here to l</a><a target="_self" href="http://www.mercury-assoc.com/services.asp" title="Mercury fleet management - vehicle and equipment management consulting services for government, private businesses, corporate operations, transit agencies, special districts, school districts, military, and utility companies.">earn more about our vehicle and equipment management consulting services.</a></font></td> </tr> </table> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">  <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="middle" width="100%"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><img border="0" src="images/firetruck1a.JPG" align="right" hspace="4">Our experience as professional management consultants is unsurpassed in the industry. Mercury's team has provided consulting services to more than 500 private and public sector fleet management operations, including large cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston - almost half the states - federal agencies, such as GSA, NASA, US Army, US Marines, US Department of Homeland Security, Department of the Interior - major utility companies, and Fortune 500 companies such as General Motors, Aramark, Sprint, Coca Cola, and Walt Disney World Company. At the other end of the spectrum, we have worked with fleets of as few as 25 vehicles and pieces of equipment. <a href="mailto:contactme@mercury-assoc.com?subject=Request for Management Consulting Project Information"> Click here to l</a><a href="mailto:contactme@mercury-assoc.com?subject=Request for Management Consulting Project Information" title="Mercury has provided consulting services to hundreds of diverse motor vehicle and equipment fleets in the transit, railway, military, state and local government, corporate, private, public, school district, power and gas utility company, and leasing industries. Please contact us today to discuss how we can assist you with increasing productivity, reducing costs, and improving customer service.">earn more about our management consulting projects.</a></font></td> </tr> </table> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">  <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="middle" width="100%"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><img border="0" src="images/fork-lift.gif" align="left" hspace="2" alt="One of the key factors that has made Mercury Associates a leading provider of consulting services in the fleet industry is our track record of providing services whose value far exceeds their costs." width="135">In addition to extensive experience, our consultants have advanced certifications and education in areas of discipline that are frequently required of a fleet manager and staff - financial management, public administration, business administration, networking engineering, Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and Certified Automotive Fleet Manager (CAFM). Virtually no other vehicle and equipment fleet consultants in the industry have the combination of experience, education, and certifications that we bring to every project. <a href="http://www.mercury-assoc.com/aboutus.asp">Click here to l</a><a target="_self" href="http://www.mercury-assoc.com/aboutus.asp" title="vehicle and equipment management experts">earn more about the experience of our management consultants.</a></font></td> </tr> </table> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">  <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="middle" width="100%"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><img border="0" src="images/bus-image.gif" align="right" alt="Mercury provides management consultation to a variety of indutries that utilize vehicles and equipment to support internal operations, including state and local government, transit operations, transporation authorities, military branches, federal agencies, leasing companies, private businesses, construction companies, shipping and commercial freight carriers, railway operations, school districts, gas and power utility, and telecommunications and cable companies.">One of the key factors that has made Mercury a leading provider of fleet management consulting services is our track record of providing services whose value far exceeds their costs. Our focus in every project is to develop and secure management's commitment to implementing real-world, best practice solutions that produce the greatest return on our client's investment in our consulting services - regardless of the size or complexity of their fleet or the challenges and opportunities they are facing.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="middle" width="100%"> <hr></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="middle" width="100%"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Fleet Cost Reduction Strategies </b><br> With the growing fiscal constraints on businesses and government organizations many operations are seeking ways to reduce and control fleet related costs. However, the approach of most of these entities is to stop spend money on new vehicle purchases, cut maintenance budgets, and suspend driving activities – which ultimately translates into reduced service levels and productivity. As the industry leading provider of fleet management consulting we have assisted hundreds of clients reduce and control costs through proven methods that provide returns that far exceed our consulting fees.<br> <br> Some well established processes for reducing costs include:<br> <br> <b>Optimal Fleet Replacement Planning - </b>Ownership of a fleet is by far the largest expense associated with any vehicle-centric business. Many operations respond to fiscally difficult times by deferring the replacement of vehicles and equipment, but this approach results in an aging fleet with higher operating costs, reduced reliability, and a significant reduction in value due to depreciation. Business owners and government agencies can reduce costs by refocusing their administration efforts on optimizing their fleet replacement planning activities in the following areas: <br>  </font></p> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" id="table1"> <tr> <td> <ul> <li> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">Acquiring appropriate vehicles with the greatest value over their lifecycle (not just the lowest purchase price);</font></li> <li> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">Achieving optimal asset life cycles by calculating the total cost of ownership (including initial purchase price, resale value, operating costs, and the cost of money);</font></li> <li> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">Realizing optimal remarketing values;</font></li> <li> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">Utilizing alternative financing methods, such as commercial debt financing, leases, commercial paper, certificates of participation, and an internal sinking fund; and<br> Fleet reduction by optimizing replacement and disposal</font></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><br> <b>Fleet Rightsizing - </b>Periodic utilization reviews and rightsizing studies can pay for themselves many times over in increased productivity and lower operating and capital costs. Even in well-managed fleet operations with solid purchase justification procedures and cost chargeback rules, a periodic rightsizing review will usually uncover vehicles, equipment units, and other assets that simply are no longer needed. In some cases, operations can reduce their fleet size by as much as 20 percent while lowering their replacement costs, repair bills, and discretionary-trip expenses.<br> <br> <b>Personally Owned Vehicle (POV) Reimbursement Programs - </b>The use of personally owned vehicles (POVs) can be a valuable component of an overall fleet management program. If properly managed and documented, POV usage can supplement the use of fleet vehicles, enhance user convenience and job performance, and allow the organization to operate with fewer owned vehicles. However, POV programs have various taxation implications and record management requirements that must be addressed in order to be considered IRS compliant. Mercury has a significant amount of experience with POV programs and management. Our studies go well beyond calculating an applicable mileage rate to cover estimates of current operating costs. We examine your policies and procedures to develop the foundation for the strategic elements that will bring about immediate cost savings and promote long-term, cost-conscious use of POV reimbursement as an integrated fleet management component.<br> <br> <b>Fuel Management - </b>Fuel is one of the most significant variable costs in a fleet operation and most difficult to control. By utilizing technology, aggressive management and auditing, fuel hedging, and outsourcing and purchasing card program many fleet operations can reduce the variability and cost of fuel. Additionally, fleet operations can implement more fuel efficient vehicles, right-size its vehicle inventory, implement sound utilization policies, and enforce monitoring solutions.<br> <br> Mercury has assisted many public and private organizations with the deign, implementation, and management of their fleet fueling operations, which has resulted in significant cost savings, improved customer service, and employee efficiency.<br> <br> <b>Preventive Maintenance Program - </b>A well-designed program of preventive maintenance can extend the life of vehicles and equipment, increase residual value, and reduce costly repairs. These results help the fleet management organization to attain their ultimate objective: optimal fleet performance and reliability at the lowest possible cost.<br> <br> Mercury’s consultants have assisted numerous operations to reach that objective, both by revamping existing preventive maintenance programs and by establishing new ones. Our many years of experience in the fleet business have allowed us to build a formidable storehouse of maintenance intelligence and a comprehensive, diversified database of vehicle and equipment statistics that we use to full advantage in our work for clients.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="middle" width="100%"> <hr color="#000080"></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="middle" width="100%"> <b><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000080">Fuel Cost Reduction and Management Strategies</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="middle" width="100%"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2">If you’re concerned about how to manage the impact of rising fuel prices on the cost of your fleet operation, you’ve come to the right place. Mercury Associates offers a full portfolio of audit and technical advisory services for helping fleet operators maximize fleet fuel efficiency and control fuel – and other – fleet costs. Should you change the types of vehicles in your fleet? Should you invest in a vehicle tracking system to monitor driver behavior? Does hedging fuel purchases make sense? How do you control the costs of vehicles and equipment deployed over a wide area, acquired from and serviced by multiple suppliers? What low-cost strategies and techniques can you implement to rein in fuel costs immediately? Mercury’s consulting staff – the largest group of independent, full-time fleet consultants in North America – can provide answers to these and the numerous other questions organizations are asking about how to get a handle on fleet costs now. </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="100%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="border-collapse: collapse" id="table2"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <b> <font size="1" face="Arial"> <img border="0" src="images/dots2.gif" width="11" height="11"></font></b></td> <td valign="top"><b> <font size="1" face="Arial"> <a target="_self" href="https://www.mercury-assoc.com/contactus.aspx"> <font color="#000080">contact us to learn how mercury can assist with achieving real, sustainable fuel cost reduction</font></a>.</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <b> <font size="1" face="Arial"> <img border="0" src="images/dots2.gif" width="11" height="11"></font></b></td> <td valign="top"><b><font size="1" face="Arial"> <a title="Fuel Consumption Challenges and Solutions for US Fleet Vehicle Operations" target="_blank" href="fuel%20management%20white%20paper%20part%201.pdf"> <font color="#000080">read mercury white paper on fuel cost control challenges and solutions.</font></a></font></b></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="middle" width="100%"> <hr color="#000080"></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="100%" style="word-spacing: 0; 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margin-bottom: 0"> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial"> <a target="_self" href="http://www.mercury-assoc.com/news.htm"> <img border="0" src="images/mai-news.gif" alt="Mercury is recognized as a leading provider of fleet management consulting services. As such we are retained by many public and private operations with diverse fleets to assist them in reducing costs, improving services, and increasing equipment safety. Read below to see contracts recently awarded to Mercury."></a></font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#0033CC" width="100%" bordercolorlight="#0033CC" bordercolordark="#000080"> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> </strong></font> <font size="2"><strong>6/14/13 - </strong>Mercury is selected to assess fleet management practices for the <strong>City of Glendale,</strong> AZ. This project includes a review of all primary fleet practices including fleet replacement, maintenance, fueling, and financial practices.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 6/14/13 - </strong> Mercury is awarded a contract with a<strong> major North American oil company</strong> to assess ways to improve the effectiveness of its fleet operations. This project focuses on developing programs to maximize fleet availability and to compare in-house versus vendor repair costs. Client fleet includes 2,000 support vehicles in a mining and refinery environment. </font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 6/14/13 - </strong> Mercury is selected by the <strong>Region of Waterloo</strong>, in suburban Toronto, to conduct an assessment of their fleet operations. This project includes comparing current operations to industry best management practices.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 6/14/13 - </strong> The<strong> San Antonio Water System </strong>selects Mercury to conduct an assessment of its fleet management practices. SAWS provides regional water and wastewater services in the greater San Antonio area and operates a fleet of more than 1,000 units. Our project for SAWS focuses on developing a maintenance strategy, policies and procedures, and a fleet replacement plan based on life-cycle costing principles. </font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 5/7/13 - </strong> Mercury is selected to host Chevin's FleetWave for <strong>Bell Canada</strong>. Bell is Canada’s largest telecommunications company, which operates a fleet of approximately 12,000 vehicles and pieces of equipment.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 5/7/13 - </strong> Mercury is selected by the <strong>City of Springfield,</strong> IL to develop requests for proposals (RFPs) for a new fleet management information system (FMIS). Springfield is the second most populous city in the state, outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area. To deliver services to the residents of Springfield, the city operates a diverse mixed fleet of approximately 1,200 vehicles and pieces of equipment to deliver services to approximately 208,000 within the greater metropolitan area.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 5/7/13 - </strong> Janis Christensen, a Senior Manager with Mercury Associates, will be a moderator at the <strong>2013 Fleet Safety Conference</strong> in Chicago, IL. She will be moderating "Extending Corporate Safety Culture to Personal Use of Company-Provided Vehicles". The conference will be held June 25-27. To learn more and register, visit: http://www.fleetsafetyconference.com/</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 5/7/13 - </strong> Mercury has been awarded a contract to conduct a comprehensive fleet program review for the <strong>City of Norman</strong>, OK. The study will include an assessment of fleet management practices such as replacement planning, budgeting, and fleet utilization in addition to all major components of the fleet maintenance and repair operation. The city operates a fleet of nearly 1,000 vehicles and pieces of equipment that are maintained in single fleet maintenance shop.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 5/7/13 - </strong> Mercury was recently awarded a contract with <strong>St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District</strong> to assist with the implementation of a new fleet management information system module. The organization provides wastewater and storm water management services to approximately 1.4 million people over a 535-square mile service area. The 950 unit fleet is maintained and managed by the Fleet Management Division at two shops in the St. Louis area. The project will focus on re-engineering business processes to align with best management practices. Specific tasks include configuration and implementation of a new fleet management information system module to support the fleet program. Mercury will also train employees on the use and application of the system.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 4/4/2013 - </strong> The <strong>City of Baltimore</strong> Water and Wastewater Bureau (BWW), a municipal utility serving 1.8 million customers in the Baltimore metropolitan area, commissions Mercury Associates, Inc. to conduct a fleet modernization business case analysis. Before committing to participating in a city-wide fleet modernization program that will see a three-fold increase in fleet replacement spending to some $30 million per year, BWW asked Mercury to quantify the impact that modernization would have on the total cost of ownership of its 1,100-unit fleet. Mercury will employ its replacement planning and cost analysis program CARCAP™, along with a number of regression models developed using historical maintenance cost and fuel consumption data, to quantify the reduction in fleet operating costs and increase in vehicle residual values that would result from an increase in replacement spending on, and a reduction in the age of, the BWW fleet.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 4/4/2013 - </strong> Mercury Associates, Inc. President Paul Lauria is retained as a expert witness in three lawsuits. <strong> Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP </strong>of Kansas City, <strong>Fleming & Fell PC</strong> of San Diego, and <strong>Sebris, Busto, James</strong> of Seattle have all retained Paul to serve as an expert on vehicle cost determination in lawsuits seeking compensation for the under reimbursement of delivery drivers and couriers who use their personally owned vehicles on their employers’ behalf. His role is to quantify all of the fixed and variable costs associated with making deliveries in personal vehicles – in as many as 40 different geographic areas and for as many as 8 different years – and comparing these costs to the reimbursement amounts actually received by drivers in order to determine the extent to which reimbursement shortfalls occurred.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 4/4/2013 - Bexar County, </strong>TX retains Mercury Associates, Inc. to conduct a comprehensive study of its fleet management practices. The scope of the project includes an evaluation of all fleet management practices, cost charge-back rates, and financial management practices; a fleet rightsizing study; an evaluation of optimal replacement cycles for selected asset types; an assessment of costs associated with introducing more alternative fuel vehicles into the fleet; and the development of an RFP for fleet fuel card services.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 3/16/2013 - </strong> Paul Lauria, President of Mercury Associates, will speak on Fleet Rightsizing and Utilization at the Public Fleet Managers Association Meeting. The meeting will take place on May 16, 2013 in Vancouver, WA.<strong> </strong></font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 3/6/2013 –</strong> Paul Lauria, President of Mercury Associates, spoke at the NTEA’s annual conference in Indianapolis, IN on March 6, 2013. His topic, Repair or Replace: Finding the Optimum Balance for Your Fleet, was part of the Work Truck Show. To see the full presentation, visit our Articles and Presentations page. </font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 3/6/2013 – </strong> Paul Lauria spoke at the National Truck Equipment’s (NTEA) 49th annual convention on March 6, 2013. The convention took place in Indianapolis, IN and Mr. Lauria spoke on Establishing an Effective Fleet Replacement Program. </font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 2/1/2012 - </strong> Bannu Hurtig has been a Senior Consultant with Mercury Associates, Inc. for the past year. Her 28 years of experience in the Canadian information and communications technology industry has been a vital asset to the firm. </font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 2/1/2012 - </strong> Kate Vigneau recently joined Mercury as a Consultant. Her past experience includes working at NATO’s Joint Warfare Center in Norway, as NAFA’s Vice President for Canada and Northern Region Trustee, and as a faculty member in Business Administration at Royal Military College. </font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 1/1/2012 - </strong> William Gookin joined Mercury as a consultant in January of 2012, with over 40 years of experience in supply chain management. He served as the agency head of transportation for NASA, and has had such notable clients as the National Park Service, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 12/1/2012 - </strong> Mercury also expanded its senior level management, promoting Bradley Kelley from Vice President to Senior Vice President. He also maintains the title of Chief Information Officer for the firm. Says Randy Owen: “Brad is an expert in both fleet management and information technology.”</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 12/1/2012 - </strong> Gary Hatfield was recently promoted from Senior Manager to Vice President. He has been in the fleet management industry for over 40 years, and has worked with a variety of state and federal agencies to improve their fleet management. He has been an employee of Mercury for the past 8 years, and has worked with such notable clients as NASA, the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and a variety of State and local fleets.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 12/7/2012 - Anderson County, SC </strong>contracts with Mercury to develop a long-range fleet replacement plan. This project includes developing optimal replacement cycle recommendations, modeling future year replacement funding requirements, and presenting results to the County Commission.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 12/03/2012 - Collective Data</strong> selects Mercury Associates, Inc. to host the collectiveFleet fleet management software system for Arctic Power Systems Group. Arctic Power Systems Group is one of the largest privately owned power line contractors in Western Canada. Their clients include Fortis BC, BC Hydro, Imperial Oil, Petro Canada, Rogers Cable, Bell Mobility and Telus.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 12/1/2012 - Gary Hatfield</strong> was recently promoted from Senior Manager to Vice President. He has been in the fleet management industry for over 40 years, and has worked with a variety of state and federal agencies to improve their fleet management. He has been an employee of Mercury for the past 8 years, and has worked with such notable clients as NASA, the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and a variety of State and local fleets.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 12/1/2012 -</strong> Mercury also expanded its senior level management, promoting <strong>Bradley Kelley</strong> from Vice President to Senior Vice President. He also maintains the title of Chief Information Officer for the firm. Says Randy Owen: “Brad is an expert in both fleet management and information technology.”</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 12/1/2012 - </strong> Mercury is selected by the <strong>City of Pasadena</strong> to assess the efficiency of fleet management activities. In this project Mercury consultants will identify the fits and gaps between current processes and recognized industry best management practices, and develop recommendations to improve the effectiveness of City operations.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 11/25/2012 - The City of Palo Alto </strong> selects Mercury to conduct a review of fleet operations. This project includes an assessment of alternative service models, the feasibility of leasing, and work on fleet sustainability issues.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 11/20/2012</strong> - Mercury Associates, working as a subcontractor to <strong>Runzheimer International,</strong> was awarded a new contract to provide ongoing fleet management consulting services to the U.S. Department of State. The services include development of a Vehicle allocation methodology and fleet management expertise to the state department's fleet management council.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 10/19/2012 - The Town of Stratford, CT </strong> selects Mercury Associates to conduct a comprehensive fleet management process improvement study for its 500-unit fleet. The project’s components include a best management practices study; an activity-based cost analysis and charge-back rate evaluation; a fleet rightsizing study; the development of requirements for the purchase of a new fleet management information system; and the development of a long-term fleet replacement plan.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 10/19/2012 - </strong> Mercury is awarded a 3-year blanket purchase agreement with the <strong>General Services Administration's</strong> Employee Relocation Resource Center. Relocation benefits available to Federal employees have been impacted by effects of the housing and mortgage crises. Mercury is assisting the Government to implement bridge solutions for the near-term to keep the Federal workforce mobile while working toward a long-term, sustainable relocation contracting model that is less susceptible to shifts in the real estate market and economy.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 10/19/2012 – </strong> Mercury is contracted by the <strong>City of Wilmington, DE</strong> to provide direct oversight of contracted fleet maintenance operations performed by First Group, as well as validates fuel system usage and develops monthly chargebacks for all departments. </font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 10/19/2012 - The U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Lab </strong> awarded Mercury Associates, Inc. a contract extension to continue providing services to improve fleet management. Services include management plans advice and fleet rightsizing assistance. </font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 10/3/2012 - The U.S. General Services Administration </strong> contracted Mercury Associates, Inc. to perform a Vehicle Allocation Methodology and Fleet Management Plan for the Agency’s internal fleet of 1,200 vehicles. </font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 10/01/2012 - The Defense Logistics Agency, (DLA) </strong> contracted Mercury Associates to update their DLA Motor Vehicle Instruction and to develop a DLA Guides for Fleet Management and Motor Pool Operations. Additionally, Mercury will conduct the DLA Vehicle Allocation Methodology and draft their Fleet Management Plan as required by General Services Administration Bulletin Federal Management Regulation B-30.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 09/25/2012 – The Department of Veteran’s Affairs</strong> has contracted Mercury Associates, Inc. to develop key requirements and specifications for the acquisition of a centralized fleet management integrated solution. Subject matter expertise will also be provided to assure that all work meets the requirements of all VA offices and administrations.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 09/11/2012 – The Department of Defense</strong> has contracted Mercury Associates, Inc. to provide an assessment of the information systems used for fleet purposes throughout the Department of Defense and make recommendations for a centralized fleet management information system (FMIS). A centralized FMIS is essential to improve fleet management efficiency, cost control, and reporting. Elimination of redundant software systems and manual data entry and duplication will be a project goal and will result in efficiency and cost savings over the entire Department of Defense. </font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 9/7/2012</strong> - <strong>Gompers Habilitation Center</strong> (Phoenix, AZ) retains Mercury Associates to assist it in developing and implementing a vehicle acquisition strategy that improves the suitability of its fleet composition to the ambulatory and nonambulatory transportation needs of its clients and reduces its dependence on a single vehicle manufacturer’s local distributor for technical guidance in the specification and selection of vehicles.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 8/29/2012 - </strong> Mercury is contracted by <strong>Wipro Technologies</strong> to assist in the implementation of Oracle’s E-Business Suite (EBS) and Real-Time Scheduler (ORS) and Sunflower's Trinetra GPS and school bus routing software for Emirates Transport to support the routing, scheduling, and transportation of approximately 250,000 students to 800 schools using 3,575 school buses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> </strong></font> <font size="2"><strong>8/20/2012 - Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PREIT) </strong>selected Mercury Associates to assist the company with the rebidding of its current fleet lease agreement and to explore the value of managed services, such as fuel, maintenance, and repair, and other services. PREIT is a publicly traded REIT that owns and manages overs 30 million square feet of shopping centers in 13 states, primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region. Founded in 1960 and headquartered in Philadelphia, PREIT currently has a fleet of over 90 vehicles.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 8/1/2012</strong> - </font><font size="2">The City of <strong>Annapolis, MD</strong> engages Mercury Associates to conduct a comprehensive fleet management process improvement study for its 400-unit fleet. The project’s components include a best management practices study; a consolidation feasibility assessment; a fleet rightsizing study; and the development of a long-term fleet replacement plan and the evaluation of alternative methods of financing.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 8/1/2012</strong> - <strong>Sam Houston State University </strong>engaged Mercury to provide fleet management consulting services. SHSU is part of the Texas State University System. It is located in Huntsville, Texas and has an enrollment of nearly 18,000 students. The University operates a fleet of about 170 vehicles.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 7/13/2012 - </strong> The <strong>San Antonio Fire Department</strong> selects Mercury and its partner, the Tridata Division of System Planning Corporation, to conduct a review of logistics operations. This project includes assessing the fits and gaps of industry best management practices for fleet, purchasing, warehousing, medical supply, and facility operations.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 7/1/2012</strong> - Mercury partners with the <strong>City of Hillsboro,</strong> OR to develop a vehicle and equipment classification coding system for their fleet of 450 units. The project also included “scrubbing” the inventory to ensure consistency and accuracy of the information.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 6/29/2012 - </strong></font> <font size="2">Due to significant demand for Mercury's fleet consulting and enterprise cloud services, both in North America and Internationally, the company is moving to larger office space in Houston, Texas. The new location will house the company's technology consulting and cloud computing support staff; and serve as a training facility for fleet professionals with its state-of-the-art classroom to facilitate hands-on systems training and instructor-led fleet management education. </font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 6/21/2012</strong> - </font><font size="2"><strong>Loudoun County</strong> (VA) Government and Loudoun County Public Schools selects Mercury Associates to conduct a wide-ranging review of the management of their combined fleet of 2,500 vehicles and pieces of equipment. The scope of the study includes a best management practices review, a fleet utilization and rightsizing study, a review of current fleet management costs and charge-back rates, and a review of fleet replacement reserve funds, rates, and alternative capital financing approaches.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 6/21/2012</strong> - <strong>Jamaica Hospital Medical Center</strong> (Jamaica, NY) engages Mercury Associates to conduct a diagnostic review of its ambulance and medical transport vehicle fleet management practices, focusing particular attention on the areas of fleet safety management and vehicle replacement.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 6/15/2012 - </strong> Mercury receives a contract from <strong>Epcor</strong> to develop an RFP for maintenance services. Epcor is the municipal utility for Edmonton Alberta Canada and also owns water supply companies in Arizona and New Mexico. Mercury’s work for Epcor includes a review of fleet safety policies and practices.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 6/1/2012</strong> - The City of <strong>Pullman, WA </strong>engages Mercury Associates to review and finalize specifications for the purchase of a new fire apparatus to ensure that that comply with the guidelines of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), from whom grant funds to defray part of the cost of acquiring the asset have been obtained.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 6/1/2012 - Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport </strong> selects Mercury to conduct a manpower assessment for feet services. The project includes analyzing the size and composition of DFW’s fleet, assessing local operating conditions, and determining the number and type of fleet staff positions required to support airport operations. The engagement also includes development of maintenance audit procedures for contracted bus operations.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 5/24/2012 - </strong> Mercury receives contract from <strong>Harris County, Texas</strong>, the third most populous county in the U.S., to perform a vehicle allocation analysis in an effort to rightsize the County's fleet. Mercury has performed similar studies for the State of California and DHS, which identified significant savings through a reduction in fleet size and proper allocation of assets.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 5/1/2012 </strong> - The Town of <strong>Longmeadow, MA</strong> selects Mercury to review the size and composition of its Public Works fleet. The objective of this review is to right-size and right-type the fleet. The project includes developing the profile of the current fleet, identifying operations and fleet assets required to support these operations, and developing the “ideal fleet” to support the department. </font> </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <strong><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> </font>4/20/2012 - KeyPoint Government Solutions</strong> chooses Mercury to assist the company in conducting the preparation, evaluation, and negotiation of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for fleet management and leasing services. KeyPoint is a leading provider of investigative and risk mitigation services to government organizations, including the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Customs and Border Protection, and Department of Homeland Security. </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <strong><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> </font>4/20/2012 - </strong>Mercury selected to conduct a feasibility study of propane and CNG for use in <strong>BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc.’s</strong> North Slope vehicle fleet operation, as well as to understand and validate the compatibility and emission benefits of propane and natural gas vehicles. The study includes comparisons of capital asset replacement requirements to determine the “break-even” point for when specific vehicle classes should be replaced. BP Exploration Alaska is an “upstream” business unit of the BP Amoco Group Plc., and is engaged in the exploration, production, and development of oil and gas in Alaska. </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <strong><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> </font>4/8/2012</strong> - The <strong>County of Santa Clara, California</strong> selects Mercury to assist with the development of a leased vehicle pilot project. Mercury will assist in developing the initial RFP document to solicit proposals form fleet management companies.</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 3/6/2012 </strong> - Multiple <strong>law firms,</strong> including Stueve Siegel Hanson, LLP; Nichols Kaster, LLP; and Sebris Busto James, retain Mercury Associates’ president Paul Lauria to serve as an expert witness for plaintiffs in lawsuits seeking compensation for the under reimbursement of the costs incurred by pizza delivery drivers in using their personally owned vehicles on their employers’ behalf. Mercury’s reports and testimony focus on quantifying some or all of the fixed and variable costs associated with making deliveries in personally owned vehicles and comparing these costs to the reimbursement amounts actually received by drivers to determine whether and to what extent reimbursement shortfalls may have occurred.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> 3/1/2012</strong> - <strong>Hamilton Township, NJ</strong> retains Mercury Associates to review and finalize specifications for the purchase of new fire trucks to ensure that they do not contain “proprietary” requirements that might favor some potential bidders/suppliers over others.</font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <strong><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> </font>2/23/2012</strong> - The <strong>City of Asheville, North Carolina</strong> selects Mercury to develop a long-range replacement plan for vehicles and equipment. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Asheville is a full service community consistently voted as one of the top communities in the country for quality of life.</td></tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span <b class="auto-style4"> <strong>2/2/2012 - Biogen Idec</b></strong> contracts with Mercury for a best practices study of all fleet operations with a focus on assessment of program strengths and weaknesses as well as identifying opportunities to reduce service costsand/or to improve service quality. Biogen Idec has a fleet of about 370 light duty vehicles; however, significant growth is expected.</span></td></tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span <b class="auto-style4"> <strong>2/2/2012 - Metra</b></strong> contracts with Mercury to assist the company in conducting the preparation, evaluation, and negotiation of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for fleet management and leasing services. Metra is a regional commuter rail agency serving the Chicago area. Its vehicle fleet is comprised of approximately 553 vehicles and trailers, ranging from passenger sedans and patrol cars to medium and heavy-duty trucks.</span></td></tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span <b class="auto-style4"> <strong>2/2/2012 - Genentech</b></strong> contracts with Mercury to assist the fleet department with the development of a draft fleet policy and procedure document to govern vehicles primarilyoperating on the company’s South San Francisco campus. Genentech has a diverse fleet of about 150 vehicles.</span></td></tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <strong><img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </strong> </font><span <b class="auto-style4"> <strong>2/2/2012 - City of Medicine Hat</b></strong> contracts with Mercury to review the adequacy of fleet management system controls and practices; the extent to which fleet resources have been economically managed; and the effectiveness of the City’s internal cost charge-back methodologies. Located in southeast Alberta, Canada, the City has a fleet of 700 vehicles and 150 units of equipment.</span></td></tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span <b class="auto-style4"> <strong>2/2/2012 - Hoosier Energy</b></strong> contracts with Mercury to assist the company in conducting the preparation, evaluation, and negotiation of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for fleet management and leasing services. An additional project includes an assessment of the present mode of operation, identification of service and policy gaps, current internal administration costs, and assessment of the company’s fleet management information systems. Hoosier has a fleet of about 350 vehicles and 150 units of equipment.</span></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <strong><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> </font>2/1/2012 – Montgomery County, Ohio</strong> chooses Mercury to assess opportunities to consolidate fleet operations. This project involves assessing the operations of three separate organizations to develop recommendations to save money and improve efficiency. </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><strong>1/15/2012 – </strong>Mercury is selected by the <strong> University of Western Ontario</strong> to develop a strategic fleet plan. This project includes assessing fleet operations to maximize efficiency, sustainability, and economic performance. Located in London Ontario, UWO is the fourth largest university in Canada.</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <strong><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font>1/10/2012 – Johnson and Scott counties, Iowa</strong> select Mercury to conduct fleet management best practices studies. While the projects are separate, the counties jointly procured consultant services in order to capture economies of scale and reduce costs.</td></tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span <b class="auto-style4"> <strong>1/4/2012 - Baldwin EMC</b></strong>, an electric cooperative based in southwest Alabama, selects Mercury to determine the optimal vehicle replacement cycles for selected types of vehicles in its fleet and to assess the benefits of standardizing its purchases of bucket and digger derrick trucks.</span></td></tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span <b class="auto-style4"> <strong>1/4/2012 - Loudoun County, Virginia Government and Loudoun County Schools</b></strong> select Mercury to conduct a comprehensive fleet management best practices study and fleet rightsizing study for a countywide fleet of 2,500 vehicles and pieces of equipment.</span></td></tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span <b class="auto-style4"> <strong>1/4/2012 -</strong> The <strong>State of Iowa Department of Administrative Services</b></strong> selects Mercury to assist it in assessing the feasibility of outsourcing short-term rental (i.e., motor) pool services to a commercial car rental company.</span></td></tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span <b class="auto-style4"> <strong>1/4/2012 - Gompers Habilitation Center</b></strong> in Phoenix, Arizona retains Mercury to conduct a best management practices review of its rapidly expanding wheelchair-equipped van fleet operation.</span></td></tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2" class="auto-style4"><img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"><strong> </strong> </font><span <b class="auto-style4"><strong>1/3/2012 - Pinellas County, Florida</b></strong> Fleet Management Division selects Mercury to conduct a fleet cost containment study and charge-back rate review. Severe budget constraints and County service-level cutbacks have reduced the size of the fleet and the demand for vehicle maintenance and repair and other services. The objective of this project is to assist the Division in identifying additional strategies and techniques for reducing its costs, and to update its charge-back rates to ensure that the County’s fleet management internal service fund remains solvent.</span></td></tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span <b class="auto-style4"> <strong>1/3/2012 - The National Cooperative Highway Research Program</b> of the Transportation Research Board</strong> selects Mercury to conduct a research synthesis on state department of transportation fleet replacement financing and funding practices. The objective of the study is to assist state DOT equipment managers in better understanding the different ways in which states try to provide for the timely replacement of their DOT fleet assets, especially in the wake of the widespread budget cuts necessitated by the recent recession.</span></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> <strong> 1/1/2012 - Bannu Hurtig</strong> joins Mercury Associates, Inc. as a Senior Consultant. Her 28 years of experience in the Canadian information and communications technology industry has been a vital asset to the firm. </font></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> </font> <font size="2"><strong>1/1/2012 - William Gookin</strong> joined Mercury as a consultant in January of 2012, with over 40 years of experience in supply chain management. He served as the agency head of transportation for NASA, and has had such notable clients as the National Park Service, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.</font></td></tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span <b class="auto-style4"> <strong>12/29/2011</strong> - The <strong>City of Sacramento</b></strong> engages Mercury to conduct a fleet cost containment and efficiency improvement study for the Department of General Services, whose Fleet Management Division manages and maintains a fleet of approximately 2,400 units. The scope of the project includes conducting a cost of service analysis and evaluation of current charge-back rates relative to actual costs; an evaluation of long-term fleet replacement costs and alternative approaches to financing them; the determination of optimal replacement cycles for selected vehicle types; and an evaluation of fleet-related procurement and services delivery practices, all aimed at identifying both immediate and long-term cost savings.</span></td></tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2" class="auto-style4"><img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"><strong> </strong> </font><span <b class="auto-style4"><strong>12/29/2011 - The City of Harrisonburg, Virginia</b> Public Transportation Department</strong> engages Mercury to conduct an assessment of the organization and staffing of its Central Garage, which maintains the 600-unit City fleet.</span></td></tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span <b class="auto-style4"> <strong>12/29/2011 - The County of Sacramento, California</b></strong> selects Mercury to conduct a fleet maintenance program competitiveness assessment. The Fleet Services Division of the Department of General Services manages and maintains a fleet of 3,200 vehicles and pieces of equipment. The scope of the project includes a review of the Division costs, cost charge-back rates, and all fleet maintenance and repair-related resources and business processes.</span></td></tr><tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"> <strong>11/10/2011 – </strong>Mercury is selected by the <strong>City of San Antonio, Texas</strong> to study the life-cycle costs of alternative fueled vehicles. This project includes determining the capital and operating costs of existing fleet vehicles, researching the availability of AFVs, assessing the life-cycle costs of both conventional vehicles and AFVs, and developing recommendations for the City.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">11/8/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">Mercury has been awarded a <b>five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)</b> contract by the <b>General Service Administration’s (GSA) Office of Governmentwide Policy</b>. The purpose of the contract is to facilitate the efforts of Federal agencies in obtaining support for fulfilling the goals and requirements of a Presidential Memorandum, Federal Fleet Performance, released May 24, 2011. Working with GSA, Federal agencies can award Task Orders under the contract for support services relating to <i> Vehicle Allocation Methodology (VAM)</i> studies, lease vs. own analyses, life-cycle costing, replacement planning, agency fleet condition assessments, agency fleet operations, fleet management information systems, and policy and procedure development. The contract allows for task-specific projects or on-site staffing, as required. </span> <a href="http://www.mercury-assoc.com/press-release-9.htm"> <span class="auto-style3">L</span></a><a target="_self" title="learn more about our consulting services" href="http://www.mercury-assoc.com/press-release-9.htm"><span class="auto-style3">earn more about Mercury's 5-year BPA contract with GSA</span></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">10/20/2011 -</span><span class="auto-style4"> The <b>City of Tacoma, Washington</b> selects Mercury to conduct a fleet rightsizing study of it utilities fleet. Mercury will employ its proprietary <i>Vehicle Allocation Methodology (VAM)</i> process to help the City save money through better use of vehicles and equipment. Tacoma is Washington state's third-largest city, with approximately 203,400 residents. Located at the base of Mount Rainier and along the shores of Commencement Bay, it is recognized as a business-oriented and progressive international city. </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <strong><span class="auto-style4">10/10/2011 - </span> </strong><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is selected by the <strong>City of Charlotte, North Carolina</strong> to conduct an assessment of existing asset management systems; Infor's Hansen and Spear 4i, Faster Asset Solutions' Faster Web, and Azteca's CityWorks. The focus of the project is to determine if opportunities exist to consolidate systems used to manage fleet assets. The City of Charlotte operates a fleet if over 6,000 assets, including light rail.</span></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"></font></td> <td align="left" valign="top"> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1"> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" nowrap class="auto-style3"> Subject:</td> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#000080"> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight:700" class="auto-style4"> Commercial Vehicles and FMCSA Compliance Interview </span> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" nowrap class="auto-style3"> Consultant:</td> <td align="left" valign="top" class="auto-style3"> Janis Christensen</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" nowrap class="auto-style3"> Video Length:</td> <td align="left" valign="top" class="auto-style3"> 3 minutes 6 seconds</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" nowrap> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCjngPWMqg" target="_blank"> <img border="0" src="images/youtube.jpg" width="50" height="23" class="auto-style3"></a></td> <td align="left" class="auto-style3"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCjngPWMqg"> watch video</a></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"></font></td> <td align="left" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="1"> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" nowrap class="auto-style3"> Subject:</td> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#000080"> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight:700" class="auto-style4"> Are You Ready for the New CSA Regulations? </span></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" nowrap class="auto-style3"> Consultant:</td> <td align="left" valign="top" class="auto-style3"> Janis Christensen</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" nowrap class="auto-style3"> Video Length:</td> <td align="left" valign="top" class="auto-style3"> 2 minutes 53 seconds</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" nowrap> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL5lqagKggg" target="_blank"> <img border="0" src="images/youtube.jpg" width="50" height="23" class="auto-style3"></a></td> <td align="left" class="auto-style3"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL5lqagKggg"> watch video</a></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">8/22/2011 – St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District</span><span class="auto-style4"> contracts with Mercury to conduct a comprehensive fleet maintenance program review. St. Louis MSD provides a full range of wastewater and stormwater services over a 500 square mile service area. The objective of the study is to evaluate current practices, organizational structure, staffing levels, and business processes and to identify opportunities for improvement. They operate a fleet of nearly 1,000 vehicles and pieces of equipment. </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">6/30/2011 - Colorado Springs Utilities</span><span class="auto-style4"> engages Mercury to conduct a presentation on fleet replacement practices. Mercury had previously developed a long-term fleet replacement plan for the organization and was asked to present replacement financing alternatives to their finance committee.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">6/10/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">Mercury selected by <b> Rockwell Collins</b> to assist with determining the best channel of distribution for the sales, promotion, public relations, installation, and servicing of the iForce, an integrated public safety vehicle solution, to state, local, and county law enforcement users. Headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Rockwell Collins has a market capitalization of $9.8 billion and annual sales of $4.7 billion.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">6/10/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">Mercury to perform a best practices study to develop a single vehicle program for <b>Schneider Electric's U.S. and Canadian business operations</b>. Schneider offers employees choices between a company-provided vehicle program and employee-provided vehicle programs, which include a “FAVR” allowance program, as well as cents-per-mile reimbursement plans. The company operates a fleet of over 2,500 vehicles in the U.S. and Canada.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">6/10/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">Mercury to assist <b>Whiting Oil and Gas</b> with assessing the appropriateness of its fleet leasing agreement and management practices. Whiting operates a fleet of about 300 light and medium-duty vehicles throughout the U.S and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">6/10/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">Mercury to provide <b>Ecofrotas</b> with a summary of the NAFA Fleet Management Association U.S. and Canadian educational programs to determine the extent that the material lends itself to the Brazilian market, including local laws and cultural differences. Headquartered in Sao Leopaldo, Brazil, Ecofrotas provides fleet management solutions with a drive toward sustainability. The company has a portfolio of 6,250 corporate customers and a combined fleet of 321,000 vehicles.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">5/30/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b>State of Oregon</b> Department of Administrative Services hires Mercury to conduct a comparative analysis of the DAS Fleet program and other similar state fleet organizations throughout the United States. The study focused on the 4,500 DAS managed light duty vehicles. The study also included a review of their fleet maintenance shop operations. </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">5/6/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b> City of Provo, Utah </b>selects Mercury to conduct a fleet rightsizing study and to identify optimal replacement cycles for key types of vehicles and equipment in its fleet. The City of Provo has a population of approximately 125,000; making it the third largest city in the State of Utah. It is also the principal in Orem-Provo metro area, which boasts a population of 541,000.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">5/6/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b> National Academy of Sciences’ National Cooperative Highway Research Program</b> engages Mercury to conduct a workshop for a cross-section of highways and public work equipment management professionals and experts to identify research needs associated with improving equipment fleet maintenance practices.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">5/6/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b> City of Phoenix, Arizona</b> selects Mercury to review and recommend improvements to the cost charge-back rates and rate development model used by the Department of Public Works’ Equipment Management Division to recover the costs of maintaining and repairing the City’s fleet of more than 7,000 vehicles and pieces of equipment. </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">3/1/2011 – </span> <span class="auto-style4">Mercury is hired to assist the <b>City of Corpus Christi, Texas </b>reduce costs by assessing the feasibility of outsourcing some or all fleet management functions. The project also includes an assessment of opportunities to reduce the size of the fleet.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">2/25/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">Mercury - Runzheimer team has been awarded a new contract with the <b>U.S. Department of State</b>, a five-year BPA (Blanket Purchase Agreement; base + four option years) that broadens the scope of services of previous contracts and includes fleet consulting services, conduct special studies, vehicle allocation methodology (VAM), regulatory compliance, benchmarking, and general support.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">2/15/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b> State of California </b>engages Mercury to right size its 50,000 unit fleet. Project includes analyzing utilization data, surveying fleet users, developing recommendations to right size and right type the fleet, and presenting results to state officials. Savings projections for this project exceed $10 million.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">2/8/2011 – American Relocation Connections </span> <span class="auto-style4">engaged Mercury to assist in developing a concept Statement of Work and proposal for a business development opportunity with a federal government prospect.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">1/30/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Boston</b>’s Central Fleet Management organization hired Mercury Associates to conduct a facilities capacity study. The purpose of the study was to determine total fleet maintenance shop space requirements to maintain their diverse fleet of 1,200 units. The study included a review of the current 60,000SF shop and determination of the total amount of space needed to adequately maintain the fleet. The study also included operational improvement recommendations to obtain better use of the current shop configuration.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">1/30/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b>City Hyattsville, Maryland</b> hired Mercury Associates to review the effectiveness of their current decentralized fleet management and maintenance program. The focus of the study was to determine whether a consolidated fleet organization would be able to provide a higher level of service at a lower cost.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">1/7/2011 – Summit Relocation</span><span class="auto-style4"> engaged Mercury to assist in developing a proposal to submit to the U.S. General Services Administration for a contract under Schedule 48 Transportation, Delivery, and Relocation Services (TDRS).</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">1/3/2011 – </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b> City of Saint John, New Brunswick </b>engages Mercury to conduct a comprehensive study of their fleet operations. Saint John is the largest province of New Brunswick and is the oldest incorporated city in Canada. The initial project focused on three essential elements of their fleet program: governance, business processes, and maintenance operations. During the course of the study, several maintenance and management practice improvements were recommended. It was also determined that there was an opportunity to reduce the size of the fleet which would lead to lowering overall fleet costs. A formal fleet right sizing study was conducted and several underutilized fleet assets were identified and eliminated from the fleet.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">1/3/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">Mercury executes a contract with <b>Danella Companies</b>, a large equipment rental company headquartered in Pennsylvania, to implement and host an enterprise fleet management system (CollectiveFleet).</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">1/3/2011 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">Mercury executes a contract with <b>Danella Companies</b>, a large equipment rental company headquartered in Pennsylvania, to implement and host an enterpise fleet management system (CollectiveFleet).</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">11/22/2010 -</span><span class="auto-style4"> The <b>Boston Water and Sewer Commission</b> selects Mercury to conduct a best management practices review and fleet rightsizing study.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">11/22/2010 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b>State of Alabama Department of Corrections</b> retains Mercury to conduct a fleet transformation project, the scope of which includes recruiting and furnishing an interim fleet manager; acquiring and implementing a new fleet management information system; rightsizing and developing a plan and financing strategy for renewing the fleet; and developing and implementing new fleet management policies and procedures. This project is a component of a major energy conservation and capital improvement program being conducted by Johnson Controls, Inc.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">11/22/2010 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Baltimore General Services Department</b> selects Mercury to conduct of best management practices review of its Fleet Management Division, which manages a city-wide fleet of 5,800 vehicles and pieces of equipment. The scope of the project also includes developing new charge-back rates and a long-term replacement plan for the fleet and evaluating alternative capital financing approaches such as leasing and lease purchasing.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">11/22/2010 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of New York</b>'s Department of Citywide Administrative Services and Information Technology and Telecommunications select Mercury Associates, working in partnership with KPMG, to develop requirements for, solicit, select, and provide project management and quality assurance services associated with the implementation of a citywide fuel management system. The City operates a network of more than 400 bulk fueling facilities for its fleet of 26,000 vehicle and pieces of equipment.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">11/22/2010 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Seattle Fleets and Facilities Department</b> selects Mercury to conduct a rightsizing study of the city-wide fleet of 4,400 vehicles and pieces of equipment. The scope of the project also includes determining optimal replacement cycles for fire engines and ladder trucks. This study follows on the heels of a project Mercury recently completed to develop a comprehensive set of repair parts management and fuel management policies and procedures for the Fleet Services Division.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">10/8/2010 -</span><span class="auto-style4"> The <b>State of Alaska </b>has engaged Mercury Associates to conduct a feasibility study for the use of CNG as an alternative fuel in the state. The study, mandated under The Alaska Sustainable Energy Act, an energy policy bill passed earlier this year, requires the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to prepare a report on the feasibility of using CNG to power vehicles in the state, including vehicles owned or operated by the state, and including in that study, if warranted, a pilot program proposal for powering some vehicles owned or operated by the state with CNG. </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">9/21/2010 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b>U.S. Department of Homeland Security</b> awarded a three-year contract to Mercury for the provision of professional fleet management services in support of the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, Headquarters Fleet Management. </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">7/30/2010 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b>County of Berks, Pennsylvania</b> has engaged Mercury Associates to assist with the outsourcing of its fleet management services through solicitation of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for fleet management and leasing services. The County operates a fleet of 208 vehicles and 350 pieces of equipment.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">6/30/10 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b> County of Berks, Pennsylvania</b> has engaged Mercury to assist with the outsourcing of its fleet management services through solicitation of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for fleet management and leasing services. The County operates a fleet of 208 vehicles and 350 pieces of equipment.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">6/1/10 - Hoosier Energy,</span><span class="auto-style4"> an electric supplier in southern Indiana, again contracted Mercury to assist with several fleet improvement initiatives in including policies and procedures, a fleet replacement plan and development of key decision-making tools. Mercury consultants have been assisting Hoosier Energy since 2001.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">05/25/10 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b> San Antonio Water System</b> selects Mercury to assess fleet information technology options. This project focuses on assessing the capabilities of the current system SAWS uses to track fleet activities (Hansen) in comparison to the functionality provided by state-of-the-art dedicated fleet management software packages.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">05/20/10 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">Mercury is selected by the <b>City of Huntington Beach, California</b> to conduct an assessment of fleet operations. This project focuses on the feasibility of consolidating fleet management operations of various departments and on determining which services should be performed in-house versus outsourced to local vendors.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <span class="auto-style3">05/15/10 -</span><span class="auto-style4"> The <b> California Polytechnic University</b> selects Mercury to assess compliance of fleet program activities with State policies and mandates. Fits and gaps to program requirements will be identified and solutions proposed to bring Cal Poly’s program into full compliance.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">05/5/10 - </span><span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Boston Public Works Department</b> selects Mercury to conduct an assessment of the City’s primary fleet management organization, the Central Fleet Maintenance Division. Boston was first incorporated as a town in 1630, and later as a city in 1822. It is one of the oldest cities in America and boasts a population of 590,000. The City's Public Works Department is responsible for the roadways, streets, and bridges to support its residents and 12 million annual visitors.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">05/5/10 - Terra Renewal</span><span class="auto-style4">, an environmental services company providing liquid waste management services to an array of industrial companies and municipalities in more than 20 states, selects Mercury Associates to conduct a comprehensive review of fleet management and operating practices.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">05/5/10 - </span><span class="auto-style4">The <b>Yukon Territory Fleet Vehicle Agency</b>, a division of the Ministry of Highways and Public Works, engages Mercury to reengineer its cost charge-back systems, fleet replacement planning program, and operational consolidation feasibility.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">05/5/10 - Miami-Dade County Water and Sewer Department</span><span class="auto-style4"> retains Mercury Associates to conduct a best practices assessment of the management and operation of its 1,700-unit vehicle and equipment fleet. Miami-Dade County encompasses more than 2,000 square miles, includes 35 municipalities, and domiciles nearly 2.4 million people. It is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States with nearly one-third of its area located in Everglades National Park.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">04/30/10 - 3M Company</span><span class="auto-style4"> has engaged Mercury to assist the company in conducting the preparation, evaluation, and negotiation of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for fleet management and leasing services. Founded in 1902 as Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, 3M is a diversified technology company serving a variety of markets—from health care and highway safety to office products and abrasives and adhesives—for its customers in nearly 200 countries. 3M operates a fleet of about 2,500 light duty vehicles in the U.S.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">04/30/10 - Metra Transit</span><span class="auto-style4"> selects Mercury to conduct a best practices review with a focus toward whether the organization should outsource more or less of its fleet management activities. Metra is a regional commuter rail agency serving Cook, DuPage, Will, Lake, Kane and McHenry counties in the Chicago area and operates a fleet of 567 vehicles and trailers.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">04/30/10 -</span><span class="auto-style4"> Mercury is selected by <b>Louisville Metro</b> to conduct a cost of service analysis to determine if the current in-house fleet maintenance and repair operation is competitive with commercial providers of fleet maintenance and repair services. Metro operates a fleet of over 3,500 vehicles and pieces of equipment.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">3/1/10 - Sarasota County, FL</span><span class="auto-style4"> selects Mercury to perform a fleet rightsizing study, evaluate garage facilities, develop a 20 year fleet replacement and financing plan, provide motor pool options, and assess the feasibility of outsourcing the parts operation.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">8/25/09 –</span><span class="auto-style4"> The <b>City of Tacoma, Washington</b> selects Mercury to conduct an analysis of fleet utilization policies and assess opportunities to right-size the fleet. Tacoma is Washington state's third-largest city, with approximately 203,400 residents. Located at the base of Mount Rainier and along the shores of Commencement Bay, it is recognized as a business-oriented and progressive international city. </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">8/21/09 – </span><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is retained by <b>Plant City, Florida</b> to develop new solicitation documents for rebidding fleet maintenance services, which have been outsourced for many years. Plant City is located in Hillsborough County with a population of approximately 35,000 residents.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">8/6/09 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b>Town of Exeter, New Hampshire</b> selects Mercury to review its fleet management operations. Mercury will study all fleet related activities with a focus on improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Exeter is a town in Rockingham County and maintains an estimated population of 15,000 residents. </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">7/15/09 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">The <b>Britt Hunt Company, LLC.</b> retains Mercury to determine optimal replacement strategies for several classes of delivery trucks. Hunt Brothers—a distributor of fresh dough pizza to the convenience store industry—provides weekly service via its fleet of 100 trucks and employee pizza professionals to more than 6,000 locations in 28 states. </span> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">7/15/09 - Genentech, Inc.</span><span class="auto-style4"> engages Mercury Associates to conduct a study of optimal replacement strategies, long-term replacement plan, and finance alternatives for its diverse fleet of 150 vehicles.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">7/12/09 – </span><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is selected by <b>Berks County, Pennsylvania</b> to develop a long-range fleet replacement plan and assess the benefits of alternative financing approaches. The project also includes analyzing the competitiveness of current in-house maintenance activities. Berks County is an urban area with a population of approximately 375,000, situated in southeastern Pennsylvania.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">7/1/09 – </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Dunedin, Florida</b> engages Mercury to conduct a competitiveness assessment of fleet maintenance including assessing the costs or benefits of outsourcing some or all activities. Dunedin is a city with a population of approximately 37,000,located in Pinellas County.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">6/18/09 - Almajdouie Group</span><span class="auto-style4">, a diversified manufacturing and services company that is a major provider of freight transportation, heavy lift, 3PL, and other services in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf region retains Mercury Associates to develop and conduct a fleet management best practices training program for its senior executives.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">6/12/09 - </span><span class="auto-style4">Mercury chosen to develop RFP and provide project management services to the <b>Government of Saskatchewan, Canada</b> in the selection and implementation of a new fleet management information system.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">6/8/09 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">Mercury selected to develop and host website and member portal for <b>a fleet management association serving the Rocky Mountain area</b> in the United States.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"></font><span class="auto-style3">6/8/09 - </span><span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Chandler, Arizona</b> engages Mercury Associates to conduct a review of current fleet replacement practices. The study will include de veloping a funding mechanism to recover capital and operating costs from user departments. The City operates a fleet in excess of 700 vehicles and pieces of equipment.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">5/18/09 - Toyota Tsusho America</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> engages Mercury to perform an optimal replacement analysis for its light duty fleet. The project includes development of replacement cycle guidelines based on real-world costs. Mercury conducted a similar study for the company in 2005. Toyota Tsusho America is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho Corporation, which was founded as a trading and supply-chain specialist of the Toyota Group. The company has evolved from a trader in a limited number of commodities and finished goods to a multi-business enterprise, combing international trading with an expansive range of domestically targeted functions such as supply-chain services, intermediate goods processing, etc.</span></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">5/18/09 - </span><span class="auto-style4">The <b>Yukon Territory Department of Highways and Public Transportation</b> selects Mercury Associates to conduct several projects aimed at improving the management of the Yukon Government fleet, including an evaluation of the Transportation Maintenance Branch’s fleet replacement planning, replacement revolving fund, and capital and operating cost charge-back practices; and a best practices assessment of the Fleet Vehicle Agency, which manages the most of the light-duty vehicles in the Government fleet.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">5/12/09 - </span><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is selected by the <b>Government of Saskatchewan, Canada</b> to provide consulting services that include the development of a Request for Proposal (RFP) and selection of a new fleet information system, project management for the selected system, and business process reengineering and industry best practice integration.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">4/2/09 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Olympia, WA</b> Department of Public Works retains Mercury to assist it in developing and implementing a new cost charge-back system for its Fleet Operations Division. The principal goal of the project is to improve the transparency of, and accountability for, the costs of the Division’s fleet management and maintenance services. The scope of the project also includes updating the City’s fleet replacement plan and providing training to several employees in the use of Mercury’s CARCAP™ replacement planning and rate development software, which was licensed to the City in 2008.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">2/12/09 – </span><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is engaged by <b>NISH </b>to assist with preparing for a fleet program inspection at Tinker Air Force Base. Fleet services at the base are provided by contract under the AbilityOne program, which is administered by NISH. Mercury consultants will conduct a pre-inspection and train staff on Air Force inspection requirements in advance of the official inspection.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">2/5/09 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Wilmington, Delaware</b> retains Mercury to conduct a fleet rightsizing study. Like many other organizations with which we are working, the City is seeking ways to reduce the costs of its fleet without impairing the delivery of services to residents and taxpayers. Mercury also is currently conducting fleet rightsizing studies for the cities of Salt Lake, San Francisco, and Tampa.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">2/5/09 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Boston Fire Department</b> selects Mercury to review and assess the soundness of its apparatus maintenance and repair practices in the wake of a ladder truck accident last month in which a veteran firefighter was killed.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">1/1/09 - </span> <span class="auto-style4">The <b> City of Vancouver </b>selects Tridata and Mercury to conduct a study of the Vancouver Fire and Rescue Service. Mercury’s role in the project will focus on reviewing fleet management practices for VFRS, assessing opportunities to consolidate fire fleet services, and recommending an optimized fire fleet program structure to the City.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">12/23/08 - </span><span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Seattle</b> selects Mercury to develop a comprehensive set of parts and fuel management procedures for its Fleet Services Division and to train employees in their use. The Division provides fleet management services to more than 4,000 City-owned vehicles and pieces of equipment</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">11/25/08 - Salt Lake City</span><span class="auto-style4"> selects Mercury to develop a comprehensive strategy for implementing a more efficient and sustainable fleet. The scope of the study includes identifying opportunities to rightsize, renew, and reduce the costs of the current 2,300-unit fleet; conducting a cost-benefit study of the take-home use of City police cars; evaluating vehicle acquisition, operation, utilization, and other management processes that affect the impact of the fleet on the environment; and developing processes for incorporating vehicle-related environmental impact considerations in the development of methods for delivering City services.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">11/25/08 - </span><span class="auto-style4">The <b>State of Utah Department of Natural Resources</b> engages Mercury to brief officials during the 2009 session of the State Legislature on the potential benefits of issuing a request for proposals for fleet leasing and management services for the Department’s fleet of 700 vehicles.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">11/25/08 - </span><span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of San Antonio</b> expands the scope of its contract with Mercury to include an analysis of optimal replacement cycles for five key types of vehicles in the City’s fleet.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">10/28/08 - </span><span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Tampa</b> retains Mercury Associates to conduct a fleet rightsizing and renewal study for its fleet of 3,500 vehicles and pieces of equipment. The scope of the project includes identifying opportunities to reduce the size and costs of the fleet, developing a fleet renewal and ongoing replacement program, and evaluating alternative capital financing programs.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">9/5/08 – </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">The <b>State of California</b> grants Mercury a multiple award schedule contract to provide fleet consulting services . The CMAS program, administered by the California Department of General Services, enables state agencies and local government jurisdictions to access Mercury’s services through a streamlined procurement with pre-established pricing based on our Federal GSA schedule.</span></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">9/19/08 – </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Midland, Michigan</b> engages Mercury to conduct a comprehensive assessment of its fleet management program with a focus on financial and Internal Service Fund management. Midland is the home of Dow Chemical and is located northwest of Detroit.</span></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">8/13/08 - </span><font size="2" class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Wilmington, Delaware</b> retains Mercury to provide ongoing fleet and fleet maintenance contract management support services under a multi-year contract. The City of Wilmington is the largest municipality in the state and the largest on the Delmarva Peninsula with a population of approximately 75,000. Mercury has assisted several public and private organizations with the management of their vehicle and equipment operations in order to achieve greater efficiencies, cost control, and productivity.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">8/12/08 - </span><font size="2" class="auto-style4">The <b>City and County of San Francisco</b> selects Mercury to conduct the first-ever comprehensive evaluation of it fleet management and operating practices. The scope of the study also includes an analysis of opportunities to right-size and improve the sustainability of the City’s light-duty vehicle fleet.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">8/11/08 - Community Emergency Medical Services,</span><span class="auto-style4"> a rapidly growing medical and non-medical transportation services company based in Southfield, MI, engages Mercury to review its fleet management and operating practices.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="word-spacing: 0; font-family: Arial; margin: 0; text-align:justify; text-indent:0" align="justify" class="auto-style4"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font><span class="auto-style3">8/8/08 - Mercury to conduct seminar in China</span><span class="auto-style4">. Marcus Evans, the international events management and professional training firm, has engaged Mercury Associates president Paul Lauria to conduct its first-ever fleet management training program in China. Scheduled for September 4-5 in Shanghai, this seminar follows in the footsteps of seminars Paul has recently conducted for other organizations in Australia, India, Malaysia, and Singapore.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <font face="Arial"> <span class="auto-style3">7/30/08 – The County of Ventura, California</span><span class="auto-style4"> selects Mercury to update recommendations from the study that the firm completed for the County in 2004. The current review will focus on financial management and asset management issues. Ventura County has a population of over 830,000 and is one of the more populous counties in the State of California.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">7/23/08 - U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> contracts with Mercury to continue providing onsite subject matter expertise and support to the Federal Acquisition Service Office of Travel and Transportation to realign relocation programs for Federal employees. Relocation benefits for Federal Government employees have been impacted by downturns in the mortgage and housing markets. Mercury will continue to assist GSA to implement bridge solutions to keep the Federal workforce mobile while working toward long-term, sustainable contracting and service delivery models. The current contract was awarded to Mercury via GSA Schedule 48 (Transportation Services) and extends through September 30, 2008; the contract includes two, one-year option periods through September 30, 2010.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"></span><b><span class="auto-style4"> 7/15/08 – </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is selected by the <b>City of Clearwater (FL)</b> to conduct a rightsizing study for its fleet of 1,000 vehicles. Clearwater is the county seat of Pinellas County and is located on the highest coastal bluff in Florida. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of Clearwater is over 108,000 residents.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">7/7/08 – The Jackson Health System</span></b><span class="auto-style4">, an independent arm of Miami-Dade County, selects Mercury to develop a fleet maintenance outsourcing solution for its fleet of support vehicles. This project will include review of outsourcing alternatives and development of a RFP to secure vendor services.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">7/3/08 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Mountain Brook, Alabama</b>, a city in Metropolitan Birmingham, has engaged Mercury to complete a fleet management best practices review with an emphasis on alternative fuels, methods for lower fuel costs, fleet right sizing and enhancements to automation. In addition, City leadership is interested in ensuring operations are aligned with the expansion and renovation of the Public Works complex currently underway.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">5/20/08 - UGI Utilities, Inc.</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> of Reading, PA contracts with Mercury to prepare and distribute a Request for Proposal for vehicle acquisition and fleet management services. The project includes a review of current practices, development of analytical scoring tools and evaluation of the proposals submitted by various fleet management companies. Mercury will also assist UGI during the presentation of proposals by the top-rated suppliers.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">5/15/08 - SCT Performance, LLC</span></b><span class="auto-style4">, of Orlando, Florida has retained Mercury Associates to recruit a Vice President of Sales who will be tasked with expanding their business into the fleet market. This unique position will be responsible for seeking new business opportunities and managing the sales group as they company expands. SCT currently provides products to enhance engine operation on domestic vehicles through the use of proprietary software which can help increase mile-per gallon, control engine speed and acceleration, and idle time before engine shut-off.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"></span><b><span class="auto-style4"> 5/15/08 - Alyeska Pipeline Services Company</span></b><span class="auto-style4">, which operates and maintains the 800 mile-long Trans Alaska Pipeline System, retains Mercury to conduct several fleet-related projects, including the development of a new internal fleet cost charge-back system; the development of a fleet renewal and replacement financing strategy; and the development and issuance of an RFP for fleet leasing and management services.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">4/3/2008 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is retained by the <b>City of Yonkers (NY)</b> to conduct an analysis of parts supply outsourcing options. This project will involve projecting the cost of outsourcing to a new contractor to those for current outsourced fleet management parts operations.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">4/1/2008 - ARAMARK</span></b><span class="auto-style4">, Supply Chain Management, engages Mercury to assist it in recruiting for two key positions in its Fleet Department. The Vice President of Strategic Fleet Operations will oversee all aspects of implementing a total fleet management program. The Director of DOT Compliance will be responsible for ensuring the 5000+ fleet vehicles are in compliance with all state and federal safety regulations. ARAMARK is one of the world’s largest providers of food, facility management, and uniform and apparel services to health care institutions, universities and school districts, stadiums and arenas, and businesses; the company has 240,000 employees in 19 countries.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">3/17/08 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is selected to host fleet information system for the <b>Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)</b>. The organization is the primary law enforcement and counterintelligence arm of the United States Department of the Navy. It works closely with other local, state, federal, and foreign agencies to counter and investigate the most serious crimes: terrorism, espionage, computer intrusion, homicide, rape, child abuse, arson, procurement fraud, and more.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">3/10/08 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is retained by <b>Duke University</b> to conduct a review of fleet practices. This project includes a best practices assessment, a fleet right-sizing analysis, and development of a long-range fleet replacement plan. Duke is one of the nation's leading, private higher education institutions with nearly 13,000 students served by over 30,000 full and part-time employees.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"></span><b><span class="auto-style4"> 3/3/08 -</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> Mercury is contracted to work onsite in the <b>General Services Administration's (GSA's) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Office of Travel & Transportation</b> to assist GSA and Federal agencies to realign relocation homesale program services available to transferring Federal employees. Relocation benefits available to Federal employees have been impacted by effects of the housing and mortgage crises. Mercury is assisting the Government to implement bridge solutions for the near-term to keep the Federal workforce mobile while working toward a long-term, sustainable relocation contracting model that is less susceptible to shifts in the real estate market and economy. </span> </font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">1/31/08 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">In an expansion of its current marketing efforts to industrial organizations into the automotive fleet industry, <b>New Pig Corporation</b> of Tipton, PA has engaged Mercury to assist with its market research efforts in serving fleet markets. New Pig has been providing products and services designed specifically for leak and spill management, industrial safety and plant maintenance to industrial, institutional and governmental facilities since 1985. They are a multi-channel, multi-brand supplier serving more than 170,000 customers in more than 40 countries.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <b> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> 1/15/08 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">The <b>Alaska Railroad </b>contracts with Mercury to conduct an assessment of fleet right-sizing opportunities and to develop a long-range fleet replacement plan. These two efforts were key recommendations in a fleet management best practices report that we delivered to the railroad late last year.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">1/14/08 - Mulzer Crushed Stone, Inc.</span></b><span class="auto-style4">, the largest producer of aggregate material in the Ohio River valley engages Mercury to assist it in developing elements of a fleet replacement strategy including 1) the determination of optimal replacement cycles for its loaders and 40 to 100-ton haul trucks; 2) the development of a long-term replacement plan for the entire company fleet; and 3) the analysis of alternative capital financing approaches including leasing versus buying.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">12/6/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">A <b>New York-based global private equity firm</b> retains Mercury to assist it in evaluating the business processes, performance, costs, and competitiveness of a Central European fleet leasing company in which it is considering investing. </span> </font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">12/5/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">The <b>Hillsborough County, FL County Administrator</b> engages Mercury to assist in the conduct of a fleet utilization and right sizing study and the development of guidelines for the ongoing management of fleet size, composition, and utilization.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">12/4/07 - UGI Utilities, Inc.</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> retains Mercury to assist it in identifying the costs and benefits of constructing a fleet maintenance facility at its planned Harrisburg-Reading (PA) operations center and comparing them with those associated with outsourcing the maintenance and repair of the portion of its fleet that otherwise would be serviced there. </span> </font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">11/1/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is selected by <b>Chesterfield County (VA) </b>to assess the costs and benefits of building new fleet and radio shop facilities versus outsourcing these services. In this project we will determine the County’s shop space needs and develop a projected development cost. We will also conduct a competitiveness assessment of current fleet and radio shop operations, compare the cost of in-house operations to the private sector, and determine the feasibility of outsourcing some or all services.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">10/30/07 - Military Sealift Fleet Support Command (MSFSC) </span> </b> <span class="auto-style4">selected Mercury Associates as service integrator to provide temporary housing in San Diego for the USNS Robert Peary crew while the ship undergoes renovation. This contract, valued at $309,000 is the second housing requirement Mercury has provided for MSFSC. Mercury also coordinates housing requirements for the USNS Richard Byrd crew via a similar contract currently valued at $646,500. </span> </font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">10/26/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury awarded a contract to assist the <b>U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)</b> with the creation of an electronic tool to enable the right sizing of its fleet. The effort is part of a Federal-wide initiative known as a Vehicle Allocation Methodology (VAM). The electronic tool will require vehicle users to justify retention of low use vehicles, or the addition of new vehicles, via a series of questions whose answers automatically feed into the electronic tool. The tool then uses proprietary algorithms to determine whether the vehicle is approved, and if so, what type of vehicle is recommended (an automated vehicle selector). Mercury's contract is in cooperation with Runzheimer International.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">10/22/07 - The Nielsen Company</span></b><span class="auto-style4">, the world's leading provider of marketing information, audience measurement, and business media products and services, has contracted with Mercury Associates to review and make recommendations regarding their vehicle replacement criteria and retention cycle in an effort to reduce the Company’s total cost of vehicle ownership.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">10/5/07 - FLD</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> of Delray Beach, Florida has retained Mercury to recruit a business development manager specializing in the federal government segment of the fleet market. This unique position will be responsible for seeking new business opportunities to remarket vehicles for the many branches of the federal government. FLD is recognized nationally for providing unique and comprehensive vehicle remarketing services to banks, financial institutions, credit unions and commercial fleets.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">10/3/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is selected to host Collective Data's fleet management information system for <b>Time Warner</b>, a leading media and entertainment company, whose businesses include Internet and interactive systems, cable services, television networks and publishing. Mercury provides application hosting services to six fleet software development companies.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">10/1/07 – U.S. Customs and Border Protection</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> awards Mercury a contract to provide technical services related to upfitting new vehicles. CBP purchases thousands of vehicles each year which must be retrofitted to meet the mission of protecting our borders. MAI will assist CBP by helping to set-up additional vendor locations to increase production capacity and speed the preparation of vehicles for service.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">9/28/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">The <b>Department of Homeland Security</b> has awarded Mercury and its partner, Defense Solutions, a one-year contract to provide professional management support services to the Office of Asset Management and Logistics (Personal Property). The staff position will be located in Washington, D.C., and support the Assistant Director of the Office with the Mobile Assets (Marine/Aviation) Program.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"></span><b><span class="auto-style4"> 9/27/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">The <b>Department of State</b> expands the scope of work for fleet management consulting services awarded to Mercury and its partner Runzheimer International to include facilitation and support for consolidation of fleet management, a key recommendation of a previous project performed by Mercury.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"></span><b><span class="auto-style4"> 9/25/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury and its partner firm Defense Solutions are awarded a five year contract by the <b>National Park Service (NPS)</b> to prepare strategic fleet management plans for NPS regions around the country. The focus of this project is to identify and describe past and present fleet management practices and propose new management direction and improved operational activities to bring park fleets into compliance with NPS fleet management policies. Mercury will also undertake fleet management studies for individual parks throughout the United States.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"></span><b><span class="auto-style4"> 9/24/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is selected to provide application hosting services to <b>Willbros Group, Inc.</b> With over 400 clients in over 55 countries, Willbros is recognized for completing many logistically complicated pipeline projects around the world. Moreover, the company provides project management, engineering, and material procurement services to the oil, gas and power industries and government agencies.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">9/18/07 - U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> hires Mercury as part of team to perform a Household Goods Savings Analysis to compare costs and services of household goods shipments contracted via the Centralized Household Goods Traffic Management Program (CHAMP), the Transportation, Delivery and Relocation Solutions Schedule (TDRS), and other methods used by federal agencies to contract for the shipment of household goods (HHG). Mercury assisted in a similar assessment of federal household goods programs two years ago. GSA anticipates the program assessment will be required annually; therefore, the current contract allows GSA to renew the consulting team’s services annually for up to four additional option years.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">8/31/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">The <b>Florida Department of Transportation</b> selects Mercury to update its fleet management program. This project will include conducting a fleet right-sizing analysis, developing a long –range fleet replacement and financing plan, updating the departments fleet policy manual, and calculating fully-allocated shop rates.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">7/12/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is selected by the <b>Alaska Railroad Commission (ARRC)</b> to conduct a review of fleet management activities. ARRC is a state owned railroad that operates freight and passenger lines throughout Alaska. Most of ARRC’s vehicles are equipped with high rail devices and are essential for safe operation of the railroad.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">7/2/07 - Louisville Metro Government</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> selects the team of QK4 and Mercury Associates to conduct a staffing analysis and space needs assessment for their fleet maintenance and repair operation. Louisville Metro operates a fleet of over 4,000 vehicles and pieces of equipment. The project will identify space requirements and adjacencies for a new fleet maintenance facility.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">6/29/07 - Kane County, IL</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> chooses Mercury to conduct a fleet maintenance facilities space needs assessment. The project will include evaluating the opportunity to centralize fleet maintenance and repair operations under a single organization and determining the appropriate size of the fleet maintenance facility. The project will also include development of a fleet replacement plan for a fleet of nearly 400 units.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">6/12/07 - Southern California Edison (SCE)</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> retains Mercury to assist with the optimization of acquisition, replacement cycle planning and remarketing processes for its fleet of 6,000 vehicles, SCE is the largest subsidiary of Edison International and is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. The company provides 13 million people in 430 cities and communities with electricity.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">6/4/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury partners with the <b>University of Auburn Montgomery</b> on a strategic assessment of fleet operations for the State of Alabama. The project will include the review of essential fleet management activities, such as organizational structure and roles, fleet replacement practices, policies and procedures, and maintenance activities.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">5/10/07 - U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command (MSC)</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> selects Mercury as service integrator to provide corporate housing services to USNS Richard Byrd civilian mariners assigned to San Diego, California. The small business set-aside contract extends from May 14 through mid-November 2007. The mission of MSC is to provide ocean transportation of equipment, fuel, supplies and ammunition to sustain U.S. forces worldwide during peacetime and in war.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">4/25/07 — Benchmark Assisted Living, LLC (BAL)</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> engages Mercury Associates to review options for financing its 64 vehicle fleet of passenger vans and buses. Mercury will also prepare a formal request for proposal (RFP) for fleet management services and assist BAL in evaluating RFP responses and negotiating a contract with the successful bidder. BAL owns and operates 43 senior living communities in New England, which include living arrangements for independent, assisted and specialized assisted seniors. </span> </font> </td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif" class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style4"> </span> </font> <font face="Arial"><span class="auto-style3">4/20/07 - Nutramax Laboratories</span><span class="auto-style4"> of Edgewood, Maryland, contracts with Mercury to review its current vehicle allowance program for employees who drive their own cars for business purposes throughout the United States. Nutramax Laboratories, Inc. researches, develops, and markets high quality products to promote joint health in people and animals as well as environmentally safe biofertilizers for the turf industry.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">4/18/07 - U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> Office of Career Development exercised the option to continue its contract with Mercury Associates to provide corporate housing management services for DOL’s MBA Fellows and Senior Executive Service Training Programs and other DOL Career Development programs through May 25, 2008. This is the first of four potential option years for the small business set-aside contract originally awarded to Mercury in May 2006 and valued at $1.7 million if DOL exercises all options.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">4/16/07 — Schindler Elevator Corporation</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> has contracted with Mercury Associates to develop a request for quotation (RFQ) for fleet management products and services for its US and Canadian fleet operations. Founded in Switzerland in 1874, Schindler is the largest supplier of escalators and the second largest manufacturer of elevators in the world. The company operates a fleet of 2,800 vehicles in the US, an equal number in Europe, and about 300 units in Canada. Mercury will also assist Schindler in evaluating proposals and negotiating a contract with one or more successful bidders.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">3/28/07 - City of San Antonio</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> Administrative Services Department selects Mercury to conduct a comprehensive review of its fleet replacement and operating cost charge-back programs and to implement Mercury’s fleet replacement planning and rate development program CARCAP™. The Department’s Fleet Maintenance and Operations Division manages the City’s fleet of 3,700 vehicles and pieces of equipment.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">3/27/07 - RAND Corporation </span> </b> <span class="auto-style4">retains Mercury’s president, Paul Lauria, to provide technical review of its draft research report for the US Army on Metrics and Cost Effective Practices for a CBM+ Based Maintenance System. This is the third RAND research project on US Army fleet management and maintenance practices for which Lauria has served as a technical analyst or advisor.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">3/19/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is selected to conduct a best management practices evaluation for <b>Flint Hill Resources</b>, a leading producer of fuels, lube oils, and other petrochemical and commodity products. The Wichita, KS based company has more than six decades of refining and chemicals industry experience. The evaluation includes about 400 vehicles and pieces of equipment at three separate facilities in the city. </span> </font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"></span><b><span class="auto-style4"> 3/12/07 – </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury, the largest independent fleet management consulting company in North America, today announced several new client engagements as it celebrated the start of its <b>fifth year in business</b>.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">3/7/07 - Commonwealth of Virginia Department of General Services</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> awards multi-year contract to Mercury Associates to provide consulting services to its Office of Fleet Management Services. Under the agreement, OFMS, which manages a fleet of approximately 3,500 light-duty vehicles, will issue task orders for assistance in such areas as business process review and reengineering, strategic business plan development, and cost charge-back rate development.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">3/5/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is selected to provide fleet management consultant services to the <b>University of Massachusetts Amherst.</b> UMASS is located in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts and has an enrollment of nearly 26,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Mercury will review existing fleet practices, make recommendations for improvements and develop a transition plan to help the University reach these goals. </span> </font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">3/1/07 – </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury has been selected to work on a team headed by <b>WCGS Architects</b> of Albany, New York to design a new facility complex for the <b>New York State Police.</b> The scope of services includes conducting a business case analysis of the centralization of all patrol car upfitting and decommissioning services in Albany and providing space programming and master planning guidance for a new facility at this complex.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">3/1/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is selected by <b>a major telecommunications company</b> to assist with the selection and implementation of a new information system to support the management of a fleet of over 15,000 vehicles and pieces of equipment geographically dispersed throughout the US.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">2/21/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Houston, TX</b> expands the scope of its contract with Mercury to include a city-wide fleet renewal and rightsizing study encompassing all of the city’s 12,000 vehicles and pieces of rolling stock equipment.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">2/19/07 – CITGO</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> engages Mercury to provide technical assistance associated with a pilot project involving the use of a new lubricant for transit buses. The Houston, Texas-based company is an oil refiner and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals, refined waxes, asphalt, and other industrial products.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">2/5/07 - Colorado Springs Utilities</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> has retained Mercury to conduct a comprehensive fleet rightsizing and utilization study. CSU is a community-owned utility that provides natural gas, electricity, water and wastewater services to customers in the Pikes Peak region. CSU operates a fleet of nearly 2,000 vehicles and pieces of equipment.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">1/26/07 -</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> Mercury is selected by the <b>City of Boise</b> to prepare a fleet strategic plan. Mercury's consultants will work with stakeholders to develop a program that a employs a strategic perspective regarding fleet management including City-wide fleet policies and procedures, consistent vehicle assignment criteria, development of comprehensive data on fleet costs and performance, and rational replacement planning and financing practices.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">1/19/07 – </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is awarded a contract with the <b>City of Olympia, WA</b> to conduct a review of the city’s fleet internal service fund working capital requirements and cost charge-back rates. The City owns a fleet of 200 vehicles and pieces of equipment.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"></span><b><span class="auto-style4"> 1/10/07 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is retained to conduct a market research study relative to fleet fuel acquisition methods, hedging products, and fuel card providers for <b>a start-up fuel financial management company,</b> which will provide fuel hedging strategies and products for both the consumer and commercial fleet markets.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">12/26/06 – </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Edmond, OK</b> selects Mercury to assist with the conduct of a managed competition for fleet maintenance services. This engagement will include assisting the City define the scope and structure of the competition, preparing solicitation documents, and evaluating proposals. A separate team of Mercury's fleet management consultants will assist the City’s fleet staff prepare an in-house proposal.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">12/26/06</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> - Mercury is selected by the <b>City of Houston, TX</b> to develop a long-term replacement plan for 4,000 emergency response vehicles. The project includes developing optimized replacement cycles, quantifying long-term replacement funding requirements, developing a list of vehicles recommended for replacement next fiscal year, and developing reserve fund charge-back rates.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"></span><b><span class="auto-style4"> 12/21/06 -</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> The <b>City of Stamford, CT </b>has selected Mercury Associates to evaluate and identify opportunities to improve how it acquires, finances, maintains, and assigns motor vehicles, and to assess the potential of consolidating fleet maintenance and management.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"></span><b><span class="auto-style4"> 12/20/06 -</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> The <b>City of Torrington, CT</b> contracted Mercury Associates to study three major components of its fleet operations: 1) an evaluation of fleet replacement financing practices and the appropriateness of the current replacement reserve fund balance; 2) an evaluation of fleet size, composition, and utilization; and 3) a fleet management best practices review.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">11/22/06 - </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury is selected by the <b>State of Oregon</b> to make recommendations about the effectiveness of state light-duty fleet operations and to conduct an independent review of state fleets to determine compliance with applicable federal and state regulatory requirements. This is the second biennial review of fleet management operations that Mercury has been selected to conduct for Oregon.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">11/21/06 – </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">The <b>City of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, WI</b> selects Mercury to review fleet information system requirements and to recommend a refined cost charge-back methodology. Eau Claire has a population of over 65,000 with an expanding economic base in manufacturing, information technologies, health care, and retail trade. </span> </font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">11/21/06 – </span> </b><span class="auto-style4">Mercury awarded a contract with the <b>Leon County Sheriff’s Office (FL)</b> to conduct a review of fleet operations. Leon County includes Florida’s capital city of Tallahassee. Moreover, the County covers approximately 671 square miles, with a population of almost 245,000 people.</span></font></td></tr> <tr> <td width="100%" style="margin:0; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; text-indent:0; line-height:100%" valign="top" class="auto-style2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"> <span class="auto-style4"> <img border="0" src="blue%20button%20x.gif"> </span> <b> <span class="auto-style4">11/9/06 - ALLETE, Inc.</span></b><span class="auto-style4"> of Duluth, MN has retained Mercury Associates to conduct market research in connection with its exploration of strategic business opportunities in the fleet industry. In 1996, ALLETE acquired the used vehicle auction company ADESA, which ultimately grew into the second largest such company in the US with some 11,000 employees and a market capitalization of more than $2.25 billion. 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