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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

8/1/05 – Boulder County, Colorado selects Mercury to assist with development of replacement cycles for its 1,000 units fleet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.