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12/26/06 – The
City of Edmond, Oklahoma 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 Mercury team will
assist the City’s fleet staff prepare an in-house
proposal. |
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12/26/06
- Mercury is selected by the City of Houston, TX
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. |
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12/21/06
- The City of Stamford, CT 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. |
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12/20/06
- The City of Torrington, CT 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. |
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11/22/06 - Mercury is selected by the State of
Oregon 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. |
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11/21/06 – The City of Eau Claire (WI)
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. |
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11/21/06 – Mercury awarded a contract with the
Leon County Sheriff’s Office (FL) 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. |
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11/9/06 - ALLETE, Inc. 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. ALLETE
completed its divesture of ADESA through a public
offering and stock dividend distribution in 2004. |
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11/1/06 - Shell Canada retains Mercury to
evaluate its vehicle lease and fleet management services
agreement and identify opportunities to improve contract
terms and conditions. The Calgary-based company operates
a fleet of approximately 700 vehicles deployed
throughout Canada. |
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10/31/06
- Slovak Telecom, a member of the Deutsch Telekom
Group of companies which includes mobile phone giant
T-Mobile, has engaged Mercury and its Central and
Eastern Europe affiliate Incoma Research of Prague,
Czech Republic (www.incoma.cz/en)
to conduct a comprehensive review of fleet management
and operating practices for its fleet of 2,000 vehicles.
In response to numerous inquiries from consulting firms
around the world, Mercury has begun to establish an
international network of affiliates to jointly pursue
fleet, travel, and mobility management consulting
projects outside of North America. This program combines
our extensive, but predominantly US, experience working
with organizations of all types and sizes with our
affiliates’ physical presence, market knowledge, and
business relationships to serve client organizations in
other countries effectively and affordably. The study
for Slovak Telecom is the first project pursued jointly
by Mercury and Incoma since agreeing to work together
earlier this year. |
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10/28/06
- Mercury has been selected to assist the State
of Washington Motor Pool Operation with developing a
long-range strategic business plan. This plan will
identify, prioritize, and outline action plans for
pursuing a number of improvement opportunities,
including the integration of small State agency fleets
comprised of more than 5,000 vehicles into the Motor
Pool and the implementation of mandated sustainability
initiatives. |
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10/16/06
– The California Conservation Corps (CCC) selects
Mercury to develop a strategic plan for the agency’s
fleet management program. The CCC offers young men and
women the chance to serve their state and become
employable citizens through life skills training and
hard work in environmental conservation. The CCC
operates a fleet of 500 vehicles spread across
California at 24 work force development centers. |
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9/25/06 - Genesee County, Michigan extends contract with Mercury
for the purpose of developing service based charge-back
rates and identifying costs associated with
consolidation of the Motor Pool and Road Commission
fleet maintenance operations. This is the third study
that Mercury has conducted for the County. |
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9/25/06
- Commonwealth of Virginia Department of General
Services retains Mercury Associates to assist it in
developing an approach for implementing an executive
order directing DGS to establish uniform policies and
procedures for the management and operation of the
state’s 8,000+ passenger vehicles. |
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9/12/06
– The Orlando Utility Commission (OUC)
selects Mercury to fleet management consulting services.
The first phase of this project focuses on an analysis
of the costs and benefits of providing executive staff
with monthly car allowances versus an assigned vehicle.
The second phase of the project involves a best
practices assessment of OUC’s fleet operations. OUC
provides water, power, and related utility services. It
is the second largest locally owned electric utility in
Florida and the 16th largest in the nation. |
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9/6/06
- The Montgomery County, Alabama Board of
Commissioners has engaged Mercury to evaluate the
fleet operations of the Sheriff. Fleet support is
currently handled by contract and the stakeholders are
interested in whether this is the most cost effective
solution. The Sheriff is a constitutional officer,
elected county-wide, and provides a variety of law
enforcement duties across the Capitol region. |
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8/30/06
– The State of California Lottery selects
Mercury to develop a strategic plan for its fleet
management program. The plan will address issues such as
vehicle inventory size requirements, lease versus buy,
fleet services delivery model, and information
management needs. |
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8/28/06
– The County of Albemarle (Virginia) selects
Mercury to conduct an assessment of the County's fleet
operations. Albemarle County occupies approximately 726
square miles in the Northern Blue Ridge and Northern
Piedmont of Virginia. The County owns a divers fleet of
vehicles and equipment and is interested in establishing
a more formal fleet management program. The study will
evaluate fleet management policies and procedures and
benchmark current maintenance and repair practices
against standards. |
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8/1/02 -
The State of Washington Department of General
Administration selects Mercury to develop a
strategic business plan for the State Motor Pool. The
Motor Pool has direct responsibility for the management
of a fleet of 1,400 vehicles and a recent executive
order directed the organization to assume control of all
vehicles assigned to State agencies with fleets of 100
or fewer units. When fully implemented, this will
increase the size of the Motor Pool fleet to more than
6,000 vehicles. |
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7/31/06
– The State of California Department of General
Services selects Mercury to benchmark fleet service
costs, develop recommendations for centralized services,
and provide recommendations for improving the efficiency
and effectiveness of fleet service activities. With over
50,000 vehicles, the State owns one of the largest fleets
in the world. |
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7/18/06
- The San Antonio Water System (SAWS) selects
Mercury to conduct a comprehensive review of its fleet
operations. SAWS owns 1,800 vehicles and is one of the
largest municipal water utilities in the country.
Moreover, the SAWS supports more than 9,000 miles of
water and sewer mains, water wells, pumps, storage
tanks, treatment facilities, and pump stations in its
560-square mile service area. |
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7/17/06 -
The State of Florida Department of
Transportation and Department of Management Services
select Mercury to conduct an in-depth review of fleet
management policies and practices. Florida, which
operates a fleet of approximately 25,000 vehicles and
pieces of equipment, is the eleventh state to engage
Mercury in the last four years. |
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6/29/06 - Mercury is selected by
the Port of Oakland, California to conduct a
lease versus buy analysis for the organization’s 600
unit fleet. The Port of Oakland is one of the largest
container ports in the world and operates the Oakland
International Airport. |
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5/30/06 – The City of North Las
Vegas, Nevada extends its contract with Mercury to
include assistance with the selection and implementation
of a new fleet management information system. Mercury
will assist evaluating proposals from software vendors,
negotiate pricing, and manage implementation of the new
system. |
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5/23/06 - The City of
Bellingham, Washington contracts with Mercury to
develop a comprehensive fleet replacement plan for their
fleet of over 325 vehicles and pieces of equipment. The
project, which is the result of an earlier fleet
operations study completed by Mercury Associates, will
identify replacement costs and dates for each unit in
the fleet over a 20 year planning period. It will also
evaluate the appropriate fund balance for the City's
fleet replacement reserve fund. |
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5/23/06 - Montgomery County (Maryland)
Fire and Rescue Services retains Mercury to develop
a facilities Master Plan for a new fleet maintenance and
repair facility located in Rockville, Maryland. This
facility will provide maintenance and repair services
for the County's fire and rescue emergency response
fleet. |
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5/22/06
- Harris County Hospital District retains
Mercury Associates to conduct a comprehensive review of
the management and operation of its vehicle fleet, which
is used to support a network of 17 hospitals and other
medical facilities in the third largest county in the US
(Houston, Texas). |
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5/19/06
- Mercury Associates and JARIC ESH complete
Second Annual Fleet Management and Road Safety
Conference in Trinidad. Turnout for this year’s
conference, held May 17-19 in Port-of-Spain, was double
that of last year’s inaugural event, and the demand for
more in-depth fleet management training in Trinidad and
Tobago, the financial capital of the eastern Caribbean,
is so great that Mercury and JARIC have agreed to
conduct a five-day fleet management training and
certification program in late July. |
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5/19/06
- City of Boston Police Department hires
Mercury Associates to conduct an independent evaluation
of the terms and conditions of its full-service lease
agreement for undercover vehicles. |
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5/18/06
- Polk County, Florida contracts with Mercury to develop
a performance measurement and reporting system for the
Fleet Management Division. This project also includes
creation of a dashboard performance reporting tool for
key measures of fleet program performance. |
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5/16/06
- Synergy Healthcare Group, Inc. of Baton Rouge,
Louisiana engages Mercury Associates to review the
management and operation of its fleet. Synergy provides
a wide array of home health care services and operates
community mental health care centers in Louisiana and
Mississippi. |
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4/17/06
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Mercury develops website (www.nishfleet.com)
for NISH in support of its nationwide initiative
to provide fleet management and maintenance services for
federal DoD and civilian agencies. NISH is a national
nonprofit organization whose mission is to create
employment opportunities for people with severe
disabilities through the Javits-Wagner-O’Day (JWOD)
Program. |
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4/4/06 -
Altorfer, a major Midwest Caterpillar
dealership with facilities in five states, selects
Mercury to provide application hosting services. Mercury
is to deliver CollectiveData's fleet information system
over the Internet. CollectiveData is one of five vehicle
and equipment management systems that Mercury hosts for
public and private entities. |
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4/3/06 - The United States Department
of State (DOS) has awarded a contract for Mercury
Associates to conduct a comprehensive analysis of fleet
management functions Agency-wide, including vehicles and
equipment, operations, and administration and
management. The study will include all DOS foreign and
domestic fleet programs and foreign and domestic owned
and leased vehicles. Mercury will document the current
characteristics of fleet management (the "as-is" fleet
program) and develop a plan for improvement (the "to-be"
fleet program), including transition and implementation
steps. |
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3/30/06 - Mercury Associates, Inc.
provided expert witness testimony in a successful
personal injury suit involving the plaintiff and the
State of New Jersey Department of Youth and Family
Services (DYFS). Mercury provided expertise on
behalf of the plaintiff in the analysis of the vehicle
operation for DYFS that resulted in a settlement to the
plaintiff of $950,000. Mercury provides expert witness
assistance in all aspects of fleet management. |
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3/10/06 – Mercury is selected to
provide application hosting services to the City of
McKinney, Texas, which is one of the fastest growing
cities in the US. The City's Fleet Division will utilize
Mercury's services to deliver CCG Systems' FASTER C/S
fleet information system over the Internet. |
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3/8/06 – ARAMARK Supply Chain
Management engages Mercury to assist it in
recruiting a new Director of Indirect Sourcing who will
oversee a number of corporate support functions
including fleet and travel management for ARAMARK’s Food
and Support Services lines of business. Collectively
these units operate a fleet of more than 9,000 vehicles
in the US. 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. |
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3/7/06 – The State of Georgia
selects Mercury to provide project planning, management,
quality control, and related technical assistance
consulting services in connection with the
implementation of a new enterprise asset management
information system, MRO Software’s Maximo. This system
will be used by the State to support the management of
its fleet of more than 19,000 vehicles and pieces of
equipment. |
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2/21/06 – Genesee County, Michigan
selects Mercury to conduct a fleet management
operational review for the Genesee County Road
Commission. The project is a follow-up to an initial
study completed by Mercury in 2004. In addition to
performing a best practices assessment of the fleet
maintenance and repair practices of the Road Commission,
the study will include an assessment of the opportunity
to consolidate fleet operations within the County.
Examining consolidation of the decentralized fleet
operations of the County was a major recommendation from
the initial study of the County's Motor Pool operations. |
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1/26/06 – Mercury is awarded a
contract by Sarasota County, Florida to conduct a
fleet operations and facilities assessment. This project
entails a review of the efficiency of various fleet
programs in the county, opportunities to consolidate and
collaborate, and development of a master plan for new
fleet related facilities. |
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1/25/06 - The City of Boulder,
Colorado selects Mercury to assist in the
development of a strategic plan for the City’s fleet
management program. The plan will include a fit - gap
analysis of the City’s operations in relation to
industry best practices and the development goals,
objectives and key measures of performance. |
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1/20/05 -
Laidlaw Education Services (LES), the largest
provider of K-12 student transportation services in
North America engages Mercury Associates to develop,
test, and implement, new vehicle maintenance procedures.
LES operates a fleet of more than 40,000 school buses in
almost 600 locations in the US and Canada, transporting
some 2 million school children each day. |
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1/19/06 –
Mercury is retained by the City of Rialto, California to conduct an assessment of the City’s fleet operations. In addition to benchmarking the City’s business processes and costs against industry standards, this project also includes development of a detailed business plan to guide future operations. |
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1/12/06 – The University of California at Davis hires Mercury to provide technical assistance in researching best business practices and best technology solutions for managing fleet utilization. This project, which is funded in part through grants from Caltrans (California Department of Transportation), will include extensive market research, industry surveys, a symposium for state transportation departments, and development of a detailed research report. |
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1/9/06 - Mercury Associates Opens Second Data Center in Seattle, Washington
to accommodate surge in demand for application hosting and custom solution development services. The data center is located in a tier-1, Level (3) Communications facility, which is directly linked to the company’s data center in Houston, TX. The new facility will allow Mercury to provide its clients, ranging from the City of Palm Beach Gardens, FL to Fort Lewis US Army Base to General Motors, with real-time data replication and disaster recovery services. Learn more about Mercury's application hosting services. |
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1/3/06 - Polaris Wireless engages Mercury to
explore the feasibility of contracting with fleet
operators to perform specialized field data collection
services. Silicon Valley-based Polaris is the only
company in the US that employs a software-based system
to update data used by cellular telephone companies to
pinpoint 911 emergency caller locations as required by
the FCC. Mercury will determine the feasibility of
developing contracts with fleet operators, initially in
Charleston, SC and New York City, to collect data on
changes in wireless communication signals that are
critical for determining these locations. |
