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12/19/05 - The National Conference of State Fleet Administrators (NCSFA) selects Mercury to provide professional management and administrative support services. The Association’s members include fleet management professionals in state government and state higher education institutions. Mr. Steve Saltzgiver, a Manager with Mercury and former fleet manager for the Utah Department of Administrative Services, will serve as the Association’s Executive Director. Mercury also provides ongoing technical and administrative support services to the National Association of Fleet Administrators and the International Automotive Remarketers Alliance. |
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12/6/05 – Mercury is awarded a contract to conduct an assessment of the Village of Glenview, IL fleet management program. The engagement includes a comprehensive analysis of the Village’s vehicle and equipment operations including the competitiveness of costs and service levels, and recommendations for compliance with industry best practices. |
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11/27/05
- The City of Edmond, OK selects Mercury to conduct a vehicle and equipment utilization review and make recommendations for rightsizing the City’s 400 unit fleet. The study will determine the optimal fleet size to support the business needs of City departments and identify ways to reduce fleet related capital and operating costs. |
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11/23/05
- Mercury is retained by Oakwood Worldwide, the world's largest corporate housing and multifamily property management firm which provides extended-stay, furnished accommodations throughout the world as well as traditional apartment management services. Mercury will assist Oakwood’s U.S. Government Group in developing its application for GSA’s Transportation, Delivery and Relocation Solutions Schedule which recently posted separate contracting categories for long-term housing providers. |
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11/14/05
- Miami University of Ohio, one of the largest
institutions in the State of Ohio higher education
system, with an enrollment of 24,000 students, selects
Mercury Associates to perform a comprehensive review of
its fleet management and operating practices. The Ohio
General Assembly recently passed legislation requiring
the State’s public colleges and universities to
demonstrate that they are managing their fleets cost
effectively. MU is the fifth major state university in
the country to retain Mercury in the last year. |
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11/14/05
- Comme Il Faut, a major Caribbean cigarette
manufacturer based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, engages
Mercury Associates to evaluate the management and
operation of its fleet of delivery trucks and support
vehicles. |
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11/14/05
- State of New Mexico Department of Transportation
retains Mercury Associates to provide management
training in the areas of equipment replacement life
cycle analysis, fleet replacement planning and
budgeting, and capital financing alternatives. The
Department operates a fleet of more than 6,000 vehicles
and pieces of equipment. |
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11/14/05
- The Province of Saskatchewan Office of Energy
Conservation engages Mercury Associates to conduct a
fleet management seminar for public and private-sector
fleet managers. Topics to be covered in the workshop,
scheduled for December 1, 2005 in Regina, include
preventive maintenance program development, fleet
rightsizing, fleet replacement planning and financing
alternatives, and quantitative performance measurement
and benchmarking. |
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11/14/05 - Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railroad (BNSF)
expands its contract with Mercury to include a
comprehensive, multi-phase fleet management study. Phase
I of the project will focus on conducting a high-level
best practices assessment of current vehicle and
equipment management activities; on benchmarking fleet
administration costs, and on reviewing the strategic
direction of the fleet program. Phase II will involve
reengineering certain management and operational
functions and Phase III will consist of assisting BNSF
re-bid contracts for fleet leasing and management
services, and short-term vehicle and equipment rentals. |
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11/4/05
- Mercury Associates, Inc. will be exhibiting at the 2005 Chief Financial Officer Summit in London (http://www.worldtradeco.com)
November 8-9, 2005 as part of its effort to expand the
services of the largest vehicle fleet management
consultancy in North America to Europe. The annual
conference is attended by more than 200 CFO’s and other
high-ranking officials from European companies and
multinational companies with operations in Europe.
Mercury will be highlighting its corporate fleet
management consulting and IT services at the Summit,
including best management practices reviews, business
car policy development and standardization, lease versus
buy analysis, lessor / contractor cost and performance
audits, and provision of Web-based and stand-alone fleet
management information systems. |
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10/27/05
- Mercury is retained by the Town of Waterford, CT
to update their long range fleet replacement plan. The
Town owns a diverse fleet of over 200 light and heavy
duty vehicles. The replacement plan serves as a
strategic guide to identifying when vehicles and
equipment will come due for replacement based on
established replacement parameters. Through annual
updates to the replacement plan, the Town can more
accurately predict capital spending requirements for its
vehicles and equipment inventory. |
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10/24/05
- The Georgia Department of Administrative
Services selects Mercury Associates to evaluate the
management and operation of its interagency motor pool
in Atlanta and fleet management and ownership options
(centralization versus decentralization) and replacement
financing options for the entire State fleet of 20,000
vehicles and pieces of equipment. Georgia is the 10th
state to retain Mercury to provide fleet management
consulting services in the last three years. |
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10/12/05
- Symyx Technologies, Inc. has engaged Mercury
Associates to conduct market research activities aimed
at developing strategic applications of its proprietary
oil condition sensor technology. Symyx (NASDAQ: SMMX)
develops and applies high-throughput research and
informatics technologies to increase R&D productivity
for customers in the pharmaceutical, chemical, energy,
electronics and other industries. |
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9/27/05
– Toyota Tsusho of America, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation that
manufactures automotive parts, selects Mercury to
develop replacement cycles and a long-range fleet
replacement plan. |
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9/26/05
– The State of California Department of General
Services selects Mercury to conduct a comprehensive
analysis and comparison of internal fleet lease rates
against those charged by commercial leasing and daily
vehicle and equipment rental companies. |
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9/26/05
– Coinmach Services Corporation retains Mercury to
assist in the recruitment of a corporate fleet manager
to be located in the company’s new Dallas service
center. Coinmach is the nation's largest coin operated
laundry services company with a fleet of delivery trucks
and service vehicles. |
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9/23/05
– Mercury awarded a contract by Mecklenburg County
(Charlotte, NC) to conduct a fleet rightsizing
analysis of its 1,200 vehicles and pieces of equipment. |
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9/19/05
- Mercury Associates is selected by Colorado
Springs Utilities to conduct an assessment of the
competitiveness of its fleet management services. CSU is
one of the largest municipal utilities in the country
and operate a fleet with 1,300 units. |
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9/6/05 –
The National Capital Region of the U.S. General Services
Administration (GSA) selects Mercury to assist with
the development of a vehicle allocation methodology to
insure that the size and composition of the region’s
fleet is optimized. |
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8/26/05
– Mercury contracted by the U.S. General Services
Administration Federal Acquisition Service (GSA FAS)
to analyze processes, costs, utilization and perceived
value of the Centralized Household Goods Traffic
Management Program (CHAMP), the Transportation, Delivery
and Relocation Solutions Schedule (TDRS), and other
programs and methods through which federal agencies
contract for household goods shipments |
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8/25/05
– The University of Arkansas Little Rock awards a
contract to Mercury to conduct an audit of its fleet
services program including benchmarking costs and
assessing compliance with industry best management
practices. |
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8/19/05
- Mercury selected by the Virginia Department of
Transportation (VDOT) to assist with the development
of a fleet replacement planning and budgeting tool. VDOT
operates over 10,000 pieces of rolling stock and has an
FY2005 replacement budget of $67 million. |
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8/12/05
- The Smithsonian Institution (SI) selects Mercury for a
fleet management engagement designed to improve vehicle
utilization, achieve a right-sized fleet, and increase
use of alternative fuel vehicles. Mercury will identify
and map current “as is” SI fleet management operations
and assist SI in determining critical requirements,
reporting criteria, and management tools needed in a new
fleet management information system. |
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8/11/05
- Mercury selected to provide application hosting
services to General Motors (GM) for its fleet
information system. The system will be used to track
GM's tradeshow vehicles and equipment throughout the
world. |
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8/10/05
- Mercury and Wells Kastner Schipper selected to perform
a facilities master plan and fleet operations review for
the University of Iowa. The project includes a
review of the Motor Pool operation that provides rental
vehicles to faculty, staff, and student organizations as
well as a review of the student transportation operation
(CAMBUS). The Team will consider issues such as right
sizing the motor pool, centralization of fleet
functions, and facilities needs for the fleet
maintenance operations. |
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8/2/05
– Mercury selected by Gwinnett County (Atlanta,
GA) to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of
operations of its 2,200 unit fleet. The engagement
includes an analysis of staffing levels, cost
competitiveness, fleet replacement practices, fuel
management program, fleet size, information technology,
and the adequacy of facilities. |
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8/1/05 –
Mercury contracted by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
to review and rewrite policy communications
materials for domestic and international relocations,
assignments and new-agent transfers. |
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8/3/05 -
Mercury is pleased to announce the appointment of
Stephen W. Burnett as Associate Vice President in
the firm's fleet management consulting practice. He has
worked for over 200 clients in his 35-year career as a
management consultant. While Steve will concentrate his
efforts on expanding Mercury's fleet management
consulting services to school districts, he will also
continue to serve a number of past clients and new
Mercury Associates clients in the Southeastern United
States, where he will head up the newly established
Atlanta office of the firm. Clients he has served in the
recent past include the cities of Nashville, Fort
Worth, Anchorage, and Charlotte; Orange County,
California, the Blake and Breck school districts in
Minneapolis, the Coca-Cola Company, and the State of
Texas. |
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8/1/05 –
Boulder County, Colorado selects Mercury to assist
with development of replacement cycles for its 1,000
units fleet. |
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8/1/05 –
Chrome Data Systems, maker of PC Car Book and other
research tools for the fleet industry, selects Mercury
to provide product development consulting services. |
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7/29/05
- Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad selects
Mercury to assist with the development a fleet policy
and procedure manual. The company’s 7,000 unit fleet
supports the operation of one of the largest railroad
networks in North America, with 33,000 route miles
covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. |
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7/25/05
- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has
selected Mercury Associates to review the vehicle
allocation methodologies currently being used by various
organizations within the Department, and to make
recommendations for improvements. Organizations included
in the review are the Bureau of Customs and Border
Protection, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration,
the United States Secret Service, the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, the United States Coast Guard, the
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Office of
the Inspector General, and Departmental Headquarters.
The combined fleet operated by these organizations
totals over 36,000 vehicles. |
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6/30/05
- Montgomery County, MD Fire and Rescue Services
selects Mercury Associates to provide fleet management
consulting services in several areas, including
organizational consolidation and business process
standardization, fleet replacement planning and
evaluation of alternative financing approaches, facility
master planning, and information system implementation.
MCFRS and several local fire and rescue departments in
the suburban Washington, DC county jointly operate and
manage a fleet of 424 apparatus and support vehicles. |
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6/29/2005 - Ontario Provincial Police retains
Mercury Associates to assist in performing economic
analyses of alternative replacement cycles for Crown Vic
interceptors and benchmarking replacement practices
against other Canadian and US law enforcement fleets.
OPP has more than 5,000 police officers and operates a
fleet of almost 2,900 vehicles and 500 watercraft. |
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6/28/05
- Mercury Associates is retained by NISH and
The Arc of the Peninsula of Hampton Roads, VA to
assist in implementing a vehicle maintenance contract at
the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station Cheatham Annex.
The scope of Mercury’s engagement to assist The Arc in
implementing a five-year contract to maintain 1,500
vehicles and pieces of equipment assigned to 8 US Navy
mobile hospitals includes developing a master plan for
converting an existing industrial facility for vehicle
inspection and maintenance purposes; developing the
staffing plan, implementation plan, pricing, and
performance terms for the contract; and implementing and
hosting CCG Systems’ FASTER™ fleet management
information system. |
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6/15/05
- Coinmach Services Corporation awards Mercury a
contract to review its truck leasing cost structure and
maintenance practices. Coinmach is the largest laundry
services company in the country with a nationwide fleet
of delivery trucks and service vehicles. |
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6/6/05
- The City of Las Vegas hires Mercury to assist with
an audit of fleet replacement practices. The purpose of
the audit is to identify opportunities to minimize the
life-cycle costs of the City’s fleet by optimizing
replacement timing, improving auction revenues, and
right-sizing the fleet. |
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4/15/05
– The University of Alaska at Anchorage, Fairbanks, and
Southeast (three institutions) select Mercury to conduct
a best practice assessment of its fleet organization.
The project includes an evaluation of the fleet
maintenance services with an emphasis on benchmarking
performance. |
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4/11/05
– U.S. Navy selects Mercury to conduct a review of
the Rail Equipment Program at NAVFAC Mid-West at
Crane, Indiana. The project includes a review of
operations, maintenance, and safety requirements of the
NAVFAC P-301 Manual and a determination of whether Crane
is in compliance, and if not, provide recommendations to
achieve compliance. |
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4/6/05 - The City of North Las
Vegas, NV selects Mercury to conduct a review of its
fleet management program. The project includes a top to
bottom review of fleet operations and focused assistance
in high priority areas such as development of a cost
charge back methodology, a shop space needs assessment,
and a fleet replacement plan. North Las Vegas, which is
one of the fasted growing cities in the country,
operates a fleet of 600 vehicles. |
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3/22/05 - Salt Lake County, UT
selects Mercury to assist with an analysis of the
County’s “fast rotation” fleet replacement program that
schedules many vehicles to be replaced in one to two
years. The project includes analyzing the costs and
benefits of this program and advising the County on
fleet retention cycles that minimize overall vehicle
life-cycle costs. The project also includes an analysis
of vehicle utilization and recommendations for
optimizing the size of the County’s fleet. |
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2/28/05 - State of Washington
Department of General Administration retains Mercury
Associates to provide guidance on the development of
vehicle replacement charge-back rates that comply with
federal (OMB Circular A-87) costing guidelines and
ensure the ongoing maintenance of a properly sized fleet
replacement reserve fund. |
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2/18/05 - Mercury selected by
the Wake County (Raleigh, NC) Public School System
to review its support fleet operations. The engagement
includes a best practices assessment and development a
strategic business plan for optimizing fleet activities. |
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2/8/05 - Ventura County, CA
hires Mercury to develop new parts procurement and
warehousing procedures based on industry best management
practices. This engagement is a follow-on to a
comprehensive review of the County’s fleet services
program that was completed by Mercury staff last year
and is intended to implement key study recommendations. |
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1/19/05
- Mercury awarded three-year contract to provide
implementation services, on-site support, and application hosting
for fleet maintenance vendor at Fort Lewis,
WA (US Army). The hosted system will be used by over 200
maintenance technicians and administration personnel and
will be hosted in Mercury's commercial data center
located in Houston, Texas. |
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1/13/05
- The Town of Glastonbury, CT hires Mercury to
conduct a study of the Town's Fleet Maintenance
Division. The project is a comprehensive management
review of the fleet operation with specific emphasis on
the cost and levels of service provided by the Fleet
Division. The Division is responsible for maintaining a
fleet of approximately 350 vehicles and pieces of
equipment. |
