Mercury Fleet Management Consulting :: Consultant Services

<body bgcolor=ffffff text=000000 link=0000cc vlink=990099 alink=cc0000> <center> <table width="620"> <tr> <td align="center"><b><font face="Arial" color="#0033CC">Mercury Fleet Management Consulting Services</font></b></td> </tr> </table> <table width="620"> <tr> <td align="center"><font face="arial" color="c0c0c0"> <strong><br> this page is being forwarded</strong></font><br> <font face="arial" color="ffff00"><a href="http://www.mercury-assoc.net">click here!</a></font> <font face="arial" color="c0c0c0">if you do not have a frames compliant browser</font></td> </tr> </table> <br><br> <table width="90%" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" id="AutoNumber8"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <table id="AutoNumber4" style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor="#111111" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify"> <font face="Arial">Our number one goal as a fleet management consulting firm is to provide <i>high-value</i> services to organizations and equipment operations, both big and small, in the public and private sectors. We believe that the large number of equipment maintenance operations that have engaged our services over the past 20 years is the best testament to our ability to achieve this goal. Moreover, virtually no other firm in the equipment industry can offer the wide array of consulting services.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify"> <font face="Arial">Moreover, we are committed to providing vehicle and equipment management consulting services whose value far exceeds their costs, because we understand that the decision to engage a consulting firm is a momentous one for many organizations. In fact, many equipment management operations often contract with a<img src="graph.jpg" align="right" border="0" width="351" height="214"> consultant only after all other possible avenues for solving a problem or answering a question have been exhausted.  We recognize that many equipment operations spend years trying to secure funds to hire a consulting firm, and that, once secured, such funds must generate a significant "return on investment."  To this end, we are prepared to address <i>every</i> facet of our clients' equipment operations, not just the most obvious or easily understood practices.  We also utilize structured, time-tested methodologies and analytical tools that save us time and our clients' money while producing understandable, defensible findings, practical recommendations, and realistic solutions.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify"> </p> <table id="AutoNumber18" style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor="#111111" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="50%"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify"> <font face="Arial">Some of the fleet management consulting services that we provide include:</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify">  </p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" id="AutoNumber10"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial" color="#0033CC"><b>Fuel Management</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial">Nearly 50% of the annual cost of operating and maintaining a typical equipment is directly attributed to fuel and fuel management. It is also an area of equipment management that has become extremely complicated, because of legislation and policies at local, state, and federal government levels, global economics, vast changes in technology, increased availability of alternative fuel types, new multi-fuel enabled and hybrid equipments and equipment, and on-going pressures to reduce emissions. Thus, for many people fuel management is a black box of complex issues, which require large sums of funding.</font><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"> Minor improvements in a fuel management program, however, can yield significant savings in the short and long term. The equipment consulting professionals at Mercury understand the issues surrounding fuel management and have extensive, first-hand experience producing solutions to these problems for clients. In fact, some of our fuel management consulting services have saved clients millions of dollars, while at the same expanding the availability of fuel site locations.</font><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"> Some of our fuel management consulting services include:</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" id="AutoNumber13"> <tr> <td width="100"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </td> <td> <table x:str border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="360" style="border-collapse: collapse;width:270pt"> <colgroup> <col width="360" style="width: 270pt"> </colgroup> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Alternative Fuel Program Development</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Alternative Fuel Program Reviews</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Bulk Fuel Site Design and Engineering</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Commercial Fuel Program Development</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Emission Reduction Planning</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Fuel Management Program Development</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Fuel Management Program Review</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Fuel Tax Reimbursement Optimization</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Fuel Site Consolidation Reviews</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Fuel Site Mapping and Location Services</font></td> </tr> </table> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <b><font face="Arial" color="#0033CC">Parts</font></b><font face="Arial" color="#0033CC"><b> Management</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial">A significant portion of a equipment maintenance operation's annual expenditures can be accounted for in parts management. This cost can vary significantly from one equipment operation to the next depending on the composition, age, and application of equipment in a equipment. However, the primary goal of every parts operation is to maintain a sufficient inventory in order to fill a high percentage of part requests immediately while sustaining a high part turn-over rate. This can be a difficult task, due to the logistics with seasonal parts, vehicles and equipment replacements, poor vendor performance, cumbersome procurement procedures, insufficient warehousing space, inadequate staffing levels, an antiquated information system, and a wide array of other factors. Hence, efforts to reduce a parts operation's costs and maintain an inventory to sustain an acceptable fill-rate can often time seem to be diametrically opposed.</font><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial">As previous equipment managers and as professional consultants we have a lot of industry experience and knowledge of the best practices in parts management. We understand the issues that affect the availability of inventory, part turn-over, stocking levels, reordering points, minimum and maximum levels, and the spectrum of other elements that influence a parts operation. We also understand matters associated with procurement policies and procedures. In fact, a principal consultant in our firm previously served as a procurement agent for a local government in Florida for several years.</font><p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"> Some of our parts management consulting services include:</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" id="AutoNumber12"> <tr> <td width="100"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </td> <td> <table x:str border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="360" style="border-collapse: collapse;width:270pt"> <colgroup> <col width="360" style="width: 270pt"> </colgroup> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Electronic Procurement Strategies</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Parts Availability and Stocking Level Review</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Parts Management Reengineering</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Parts Management Reviews</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Procurement Procedures Assessments</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Vendor / Contractor Performance Reviews</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Parts Warehouse Design</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify"><b> <font face="Arial" color="#0033CC">Equipment Replacement</font></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="50%"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial">The replacement of equipments and equipment in a timely manner is a problem for many equipment operations. The decision to replacement equipment is often driven by the fiscal health of the organization, breakdown or failure of the equipment, or some other unpredictable factor. However, a proper equipment replacement program can provide both equipment reliability and fiscal stability for a equipment operation and to the general organization.</font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial">Our consultants have been providing equipment replacement planning services for decades, which is why dozens of equipment operations have contracted with us over the years. Whether you utilize ad hoc appropriations, lease-purchase, debt financing, or a hybrid approach our equipment consultant team can assist you in developing a long-term replacement strategy. Moreover, as part of our equipment replacement planning services we will model several funding and purchasing approaches so that you have the quantitative information to justify the final funding approach.</font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"> Some of our equipment replacement consulting services include:</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="50%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" id="AutoNumber14"> <tr> <td width="100"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </td> <td> <table x:str border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="360" style="border-collapse: collapse;width:270pt" u1:str> <colgroup> <col width="360" style="width: 270pt"> </colgroup> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Equipment Replacement Fund Development</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Equipment Replacement Plan Review</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Equipment Replacement Planning</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Equipment Replacement Scheduling</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Lease Versus Buy Analysis</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="50%"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <b><font face="Arial" color="#0033CC">General Equipment Operations</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="50%"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial">Our group of equipment maintenance consultants frequently are contracted to provide general operation reviews. Perhaps this is due to the <i>value</i> that we produce as a result of our findings. We often hear about studies, such as a strategic business plan, that our consulting professionals performed nearly a decade ago are still frequently referenced and utilized in management decisions.  We believe that this is the best testament to our ability to achieve provide high quality, valuable consultant services. Moreover, virtually no other firm in the equipment industry can provide our wide array of general equipment consulting services.</font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"> Some of our general equipment management consulting services include:</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="50%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" id="AutoNumber15"> <tr> <td width="100"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </td> <td> <table x:str border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="360" style="border-collapse: collapse;width:270pt"> <colgroup> <col width="360" style="width: 270pt"> </colgroup> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Business Process Reengineering</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Equipment Management Training</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Operation Best Practice Reviews</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Operation Competitiveness Assessments</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Organizational Realignment</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Policy and Procedure Development</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Staffing Level Assessments</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Strategic Business Planning</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Managed Competition Facilitation</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Vendor Contract Negotiations</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Vendor Contract Reviews</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Industry Standards and Benchmarking Studies</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Performance Measurement Solutions</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="50%"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><b> <font face="Arial" color="#0033CC">Fleet Maintenance Outsourcing Consulting Services</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="50%"> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial">Fleet maintenance outsourcing is a process that most people view as an all or nothing process. In some cases this is true. However, we often find equipment operations that are very efficient at specific services, such as preventative maintenance. In such an instance an appropriate solution may be a hybrid approach - outsourcing specific activities and services of a equipment operation. Nonetheless, the choice of either outsourcing part or an entire operation is not an easy one. It often times requires the review of an impartial party that understands when an operation should be outsourced, how it should be done, and the contractual pitfalls that can result in unforeseen charges and financial liability.</font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial">Mercury is uniquely qualified to provide you with outsourcing consulting services, because we have worked for many years with both internally managed and outsourced equipment operations, negotiated several outsourcing maintenance contracts for clients, and provided managed competition services.</font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"> Some of our outsourcing consulting services include:</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="50%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" id="AutoNumber17"> <tr> <td width="100"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </td> <td> <table x:str border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="360" style="border-collapse: collapse;width:270pt"> <colgroup> <col width="360" style="width: 270pt"> </colgroup> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Managed Competition Facilitation</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Outsourcing Contract Negotiations</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Outsourcing Feasibility Reviews</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Outsourcing Facilitation</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="50%"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <b><font face="Arial" color="#0033CC">Fleet Maintenance Information Services (FMIS)</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="50%"> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <span style="font-family: Arial">One of the most significant changes in the equipment industry has been a veritable explosion of quantitative data. The sources of these data are multitude: equipment maintenance information systems, fuel management systems, ERP and financial management systems, professional association databases, the Internet, GPS and AVL solutions, web-based reporting engines, ad hoc report writers, and document imaging systems. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <span style="font-family: Arial"> </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <span style="font-family: Arial">The increased availability of data on the vehicles and the equipment operations has placed significant pressure on equipment managers and staff to maintain and produce a wide array of management information for clients, financial and auditing departments, executives, elected officials, and the general public. A major challenge for equipment managers has been and will continue to be the struggle to keep these entities sufficiently informed in a timely manner.  Some of the best equipment managers in the industry have addressed this requirement by implementing proactive processes and solutions that <i>push </i>information to stakeholders on a regular schedule. Push technology can automatically deliver key management decision making information to email accounts, printers, fax machines, pagers, PDAs, and other communication devices. An increasing number of equipment management organizations are using their own web sites as a means of distributing invoices, reservation confirmations, recall notices, and the like to their customers. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial">As a leading provider of fleet management consulting services and business solutions Mercury is uniquely qualified to assist equipment organizations with their information technology needs - from A to Z. Our equipment consulting professionals have assisted several clients in the selection, implementation, and maintenance of new / replacement equipment information systems. We have also reengineered local and wide-area networks, implemented firewalls and security solutions, and provided ad hoc reporting solutions and equipment information systems. <font size="2"> <a target="_self" href="http://www.mercury-assoc.net/solutions.asp">Learn more about our equipment technology solutions.</a></font></font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial">In addition to offering local services to equipment organizations, we also provide applications hosting services. Our hosting service allows a equipment operation to implement leading edge business tools (e.g. equipment information system, ad hoc reporting, on-line consulting, and much more) without the upfront cost and time of implementing a system locally. Users pay a fixed monthly subscription fee to access these resources, while we manage server replacements, application upgrades, security and antivirus countermeasures, and data backups. <font size="2"> <a target="_self" href="http://www.mercury-assoc.net/solutions.asp">Learn more about our hosting solutions.</a></font></font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"> Some of our equipment maintenance information services include:</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="50%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" id="AutoNumber16"> <tr> <td width="100"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </td> <td> <table x:str border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="360" style="border-collapse: collapse;width:270pt"> <colgroup> <col width="360" style="width: 270pt"> </colgroup> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Ad Hoc Report Training</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Application Training</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Applied Equipment Principals Training</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Windows Training</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Custom Report Development</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Data Integrity Audits</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial" color="#0033CC">Fleet Information System Implementation</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Equipment Information System RFP Development</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" width="360" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 270pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; white-space: normal; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; padding: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#0033CC" face="Arial">Equipment Information System Selection</font></td> </tr> <tr height="17" style="height:12.75pt"> <td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; color: black; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; 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