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10/26/07 - Mercury
awarded a contract to assist the U.S. General
Services Administration (GSA) with the creation of
an electronic tool to enable the right sizing of its
fleet. The effort is part of a Federal-wide initiative
known as a Vehicle Allocation Methodology (VAM). The
electronic tool will require vehicle users to justify
retention of low use vehicles, or the addition of new
vehicles, via a series of questions whose answers
automatically feed into the electronic tool. The tool
then uses proprietary algorithms to determine whether
the vehicle is approved, and if so, what type of vehicle
is recommended (an automated vehicle selector).
Mercury's contract is in cooperation with Runzheimer
International. |
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10/22/07 - The
Nielsen Company, the world's leading provider of
marketing information, audience measurement, and
business media products and services, has contracted
with Mercury to review and make recommendations
regarding their vehicle replacement criteria and
retention cycle in an effort to reduce the Company’s
total cost of vehicle ownership. |
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10/5/07 - FLD of
Delray Beach, Florida has retained Mercury to recruit a
business development manager specializing in the federal
government segment of the fleet market. This unique
position will be responsible for seeking new business
opportunities to remarket vehicles for the many branches
of the federal government. FLD is recognized nationally
for providing unique and comprehensive vehicle
remarketing services to banks, financial institutions,
credit unions and commercial fleets. |
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10/3/07 - Mercury
is selected to host Collective Data's fleet management
information system for Time Warner, a leading
media and entertainment company, whose businesses
include Internet and interactive systems, cable
services, television networks and publishing. Mercury
provides application hosting services to six fleet
software development companies. |
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10/1/07 – U.S. Customs
and Border Protection awards Mercury a contract to
provide technical services related to upfitting new
vehicles. CBP purchases thousands of vehicles each year
which must be retrofitted to meet the mission of
protecting our borders. MAI will assist CBP by helping
to set-up additional vendor locations to increase
production capacity and speed the preparation of
vehicles for service. |
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9/28/07 - The
Department of Homeland Security has awarded Mercury
and its partner, Defense Solutions, a one-year contract
to provide professional management support services to
the Office of Asset Management and Logistics (Personal
Property). The staff position will be located in
Washington, D.C., and support the Assistant Director of
the Office with the Mobile Assets (Marine/Aviation)
Program. |
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9/27/07 - The
Department of State expanded the scope of work for
fleet management consulting services awarded to Mercury
and its partner Runzheimer International to include
facilitation and support for consolidation of fleet
management, a key recommendation of a previous project
performed by Mercury. |
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9/25/07 - Mercury
and its partner firm Defense Solutions are awarded a
five year contract by the National Park Service (NPS)
to prepare strategic fleet management plans for NPS
regions around the country. The focus of this project is
to identify and describe past and present fleet
management practices and propose new management
direction and improved operational activities to bring
park fleets into compliance with NPS fleet management
policies. Mercury will also undertake fleet management
studies for individual parks throughout the United
States. |
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9/24/07 - Mercury
is selected to provide application hosting services to
Willbros Group, Inc. With over 400 clients in
over 55 countries, Willbros is recognized for completing
many logistically complicated pipeline projects around
the world. Moreover, the company provides project
management, engineering, and material procurement
services to the oil, gas and power industries and
government agencies. |
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9/18/07 - U.S. General
Services Administration (GSA) hires Mercury as part
of team to perform a Household Goods Savings Analysis to
compare costs and services of household goods shipments
contracted via the Centralized Household Goods Traffic
Management Program (CHAMP), the Transportation, Delivery
and Relocation Solutions Schedule (TDRS), and other
methods used by federal agencies to contract for the
shipment of household goods (HHG). Mercury assisted in a
similar assessment of federal household goods programs
two years ago. GSA anticipates the program assessment
will be required annually; therefore, the current
contract allows GSA to renew the consulting team’s
services annually for up to four additional option
years. |
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8/31/07 - The
Florida Department of Transportation selects Mercury
to update its fleet management program. This project
will include conducting a fleet right-sizing analysis,
developing a long –range fleet replacement and financing
plan, updating the departments fleet policy manual, and
calculating fully-allocated shop rates. |
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8/20/07 - Mercury
is awarded a five year contract renewal with Harris
County (Houston, TX) to provide application hosting
services. Since 2002, Mercury has provided hosting
services to the County for its fleet management system,
ad hoc reporting solution, data replication, and
electronic repair and maintenance manuals. Harris County
is the third largest county in the United States. |
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7/12/07 - Mercury
is selected by the Alaska Railroad Commission (ARRC)
to conduct a review of fleet management activities. ARRC
is a state owned railroad that operates freight and
passenger lines throughout Alaska. Most of ARRC’s
vehicles are equipped with high rail devices and are
essential for safe operation of the railroad. |
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7/2/07 - Louisville
Metro Government selects the team of QK4 and Mercury
Associates to conduct a staffing analysis and space
needs assessment for their fleet maintenance and repair
operation. Louisville Metro operates a fleet of over
4,000 vehicles and pieces of equipment. The project will
identify space requirements and adjacencies for a new
fleet maintenance facility. |
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6/29/07 - Kane County,
IL chooses Mercury to conduct a fleet maintenance
facilities space needs assessment. The project will
include evaluating the opportunity to centralize fleet
maintenance and repair operations under a single
organization and determining the appropriate size of the
fleet maintenance facility. The project will also
include development of a fleet replacement plan for a
fleet of nearly 400 units. |
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6/12/07 - Southern
California Edison (SCE) retains Mercury to assist
with the optimization of acquisition, replacement cycle
planning and remarketing processes for its fleet of
6,000 vehicles, SCE is the largest subsidiary of Edison
International and is the primary electricity supply
company for much of Southern California. The company
provides 13 million people in 430 cities and communities
with electricity. |
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6/4/07 - Mercury
partners with the University of Auburn Montgomery
on a strategic assessment of fleet operations for the
State of Alabama. The project will include the review of
essential fleet management activities, such as
organizational structure and roles, fleet replacement
practices, policies and procedures, and maintenance
activities. |
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5/10/07 - U.S. Navy
Military Sealift Command (MSC) selects Mercury as
service integrator to provide corporate housing services
to USNS Richard Byrd civilian mariners assigned to San
Diego, California. The small business set-aside contract
extends from May 14 through mid-November 2007. The
mission of MSC is to provide ocean transportation of
equipment, fuel, supplies and ammunition to sustain U.S.
forces worldwide during peacetime and in war. |
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4/20/07 - Nutramax
Laboratories of Edgewood, Maryland, contracts with
Mercury Associates to review its current vehicle
allowance program for employees who drive their own cars
for business purposes throughout the United States.
Nutramax Laboratories, Inc. researches, develops, and
markets high quality products to promote joint health in
people and animals as well as environmentally safe
biofertilizers for the turf industry. |
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4/18/07 - U.S.
Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Career
Development exercised the option to continue its
contract with Mercury Associates to provide corporate
housing management services for DOL’s MBA Fellows and
Senior Executive Service Training Programs and other DOL
Career Development programs through May 25, 2008. This
is the first of four potential option years for the
small business set-aside contract originally awarded to
Mercury in May 2006 and valued at $1.7 million if DOL
exercises all options. |
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3/28/07 - City of San
Antonio Administrative Services Department selects
Mercury to conduct a comprehensive review of its fleet
replacement and operating cost charge back programs and
to implement Mercury’s fleet replacement planning and
rate development program CARCAP. The Fleet Maintenance
and Operations Division manages the City’s fleet of
3,700 vehicles and pieces of equipment. |
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3/27/07 - RAND
Corporation retains Mercury’s president, Paul
Lauria, to provide technical review of its draft
research report for the US Army on Metrics and Cost
Effective Practices for a CBM Based Maintenance System.
This is the third RAND research project on US Army fleet
management and maintenance practices for which Lauria
has served as a technical analyst or advisor. |
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3/19/07 - Mercury
is selected to conduct a best management practices
evaluation for Flint Hill Resources, a leading
producer of fuels, lube oils, and other petrochemical
and commodity products. The Wichita, KS based company
has more than six decades of refining and chemicals
industry experience. The evaluation includes about 400
vehicles and pieces of equipment at three separate
facilities in the city. |
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3/7/07 - Commonwealth
of Virginia Department of General Services awards
multi-year contract to Mercury Associates to provide
consulting services to its Office of Fleet Management
Services. Under the agreement, OFMS, which manages a
fleet of approximately 3,500 light-duty vehicles, will
issue task orders for assistance in such areas as
business process review and reengineering, strategic
business plan development, and cost charge-back rate
development. |
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3/5/07 - Mercury is
selected to provide fleet management consultant services
to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. UMASS
is located in the Pioneer Valley of Western
Massachusetts and has an enrollment of nearly 26,000
undergraduate and graduate students. Mercury will review
existing fleet practices, make recommendations for
improvements and develop a transition plan to help the
University reach these goals. |
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3/1/07 – Mercury
has been selected to work on a team headed by WCGS
Architects of Albany, New York to design a new
facility complex for the New York State Police.
The scope of services includes conducting a business
case analysis of the centralization of all patrol car
upfitting and decommissioning services in Albany and
providing space programming and master planning guidance
for a new facility at this complex. |
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3/1/07 - Mercury is
selected by a major telecommunications company to
assist with the selection and implementation of a new
information system to support the management of a fleet
of over 15,000 vehicles and pieces of equipment
geographically dispersed throughout the US. |
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2/21/07 - The
City of Houston, Texas expands the scope of its
contract with Mercury to include a city-wide fleet
renewal and rightsizing study encompassing all of the
city’s 12,000 vehicles and pieces of rolling stock
equipment. |
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2/19/07 – Citgo
engages Mercury to provide technical assistance
associated with a pilot project using a new industrial
lubricant for transit fleets. Based in Houston, Texas,
CITGO is a refiner and marketer of transportation fuels,
lubricants, petrochemicals, refined waxes, asphalt and
other industrial products. The company is owned by PDV
America, Inc., an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of
Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company
of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. |
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2/5/07 - Colorado
Springs Utilities (CSU) has retained Mercury to
conduct a comprehensive fleet rightsizing and
utilization study. CSU is a community-owned utility that
provides natural gas, electricity, water and wastewater
services to customers in the Pikes Peak region. CSU
operates a fleet of nearly 2,000 vehicles and pieces of
equipment. |
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1/26/07 - Mercury
is selected by the City of Boise, Idaho to
prepare a fleet strategic plan. Mercury consultants will
work with stakeholders to develop a program that a
employs a strategic perspective regarding fleet
management including City-wide fleet policies and
procedures, consistent vehicle assignment criteria,
development of comprehensive data on fleet costs and
performance, and rational replacement planning and
financing practices. |
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1/19/07 –
Mercury is awarded a
contract with the City of Olympia, Washington to
conduct a review of the city’s fleet internal service
fund working capital requirements and cost charge-back
rates. The City owns a fleet of 200 vehicles and pieces
of equipment. |
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1/10/07 - Mercury
is retained to conduct a market research study relative
to fleet fuel acquisition methods, hedging products, and
fuel card providers for a start-up fuel financial
management company, which will provide fuel hedging
strategies and products for both the consumer and fleet
markets. |
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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. |
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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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4/15/2005 – 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. |
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12/28/04 - Delaware Department of
Transportation selects Mercury Associates to perform
a comprehensive fit-gap analysis of its existing
information system to determine the appropriateness of
the system for supporting current and future fleet
operations within the Department. The system is used by
150 users statewide to support vehicle and equipment
maintenance and fuel management activities. |
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12/21/04 - Mercury is selected
by the City of Bellingham, WA to conduct for a
comprehensive review its fleet management program
covering 780 vehicles and pieces of equipment. The
project includes an assessment of the program’s
competitiveness and the extent to which industry best
practices are followed. |
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12/5/04 - Mecklenburg County
(Charlotte, NC) selects Mercury to conduct a review
of its fleet services program, which covers 1,500
vehicles and pieces of equipment. The engagement
includes benchmarking costs and staffing levels,
conducting a best management practices assessment, and
recommending a performance measurement system that
aligns with established County goals and objectives.
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11/30/04 - Coinmach Services
Corporation selects Mercury to develop a strategic
business plan for its 1,500 unit fleet management
program. Coinmach is the largest laundry services
company in the country and operates 875,000 pieces of
laundry equipment in approximately 80,000 locations. |
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11/30/04 - Mercury is selected
by the State of South Carolina to conduct a
comprehensive review of its 17,000 unit fleet. The
engagement includes a fleet rightsizing analysis, a best
practices assessment of six separate major agency fleet
programs, a consolidation feasibility study, an
outsourcing feasibility study, development of a fleet
replacement plan, and development of revised cost charge
back rates. |
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11/15/04 - Mercury Associates,
Inc. opens new corporate headquarters in Gaithersburg,
Maryland due to exceptional growth through
acquisitions and project awards. |
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11/3/04 - The City of Pullman,
Washington selects Mercury to conduct a facilities
space needs assessment for its fleet operation. The
project also includes a review of several specific areas
of the City's fleet maintenance operation. |
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10/25/04 - City of Durham, North
Carolina selects Mercury to review fleet
utilization, develop a vehicle and equipment replacement
plan, and conduct a best management practices review.
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10/15/04 - Harris County, Texas
(Houston) awards contract to Mercury to provide a
GPS solution and hosting services to track vehicles and
equipment. Harris County is the third largest county in
the US. |
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10/7/04 - State of Michigan awards contract to
Mercury for in-depth evaluation and reengineering of
various fleet management practices. The study will focus
on the 8,200 vehicles managed by the Department of
Management and Budget, and will include assisting in the
development of one or more RFPs for full-service leasing
and fuel card services; determining how to best meet the
State’s fleet data processing and management information
needs; and evaluating the roles and responsibilities of
the central fleet management program in meeting State
agencies’ fleet needs. |
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10/1/04 - Mercury acquires
Advanced Fleet Management
Solutions (AFMS) making it the largest and most
comprehensive provider of fleet management consulting
services in North America. |
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10/1/04 - The State of Alaska selects Mercury to
conduct a fleet right sizing project. This engagement is
aimed at identifying opportunities to lower fleet
related costs by reducing the size of the State’s fleet,
which includes 7,000 vehicles and heavy equipment units
spread out over an area 1/5 the size of the continental
United States. |
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9/30/04 - Mercury staff selected by the United
States General
Services Administration to provide fleet management
consulting assistance in a number of areas. Projects
include development of a comprehensive training program
for federal fleet managers, creation of a web based
fleet management desk reference, and development of a
vehicle allocation methodology to assist federal
agencies in determining the appropriate size of their
fleets. |
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9/24/04 - NASA’s Langley Research Center retains
Mercury Associates as part of a team to evaluate
alternative methods of meeting the transportation needs
of it 3,800-person workforce, including rental versus
ownership and lease versus purchase of vehicles.
Langley, located near Hampton, VA, leads NASA
initiatives in aviation safety, quiet aircraft
technology, small aircraft transportation and aerospace
vehicles system technology. It supports NASA space
programs with atmospheric research and technology
testing and development. |
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9/17/04 - Mercury selected by METRO, the
Transit Authority of the St. Louis metropolitan area,
to conduct a fleet size and utilization study for its
support fleet. The project also includes developing of
an ongoing vehicle allocation policy and a vehicle
replacement methodology. METRO is one of the largest
transit operations in the United States. |
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9/16/04 - National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) selects Mercury as
part of a team to develop a comprehensive interactive
Internet based Fleet Management Policy and Procedure
Manual that will serve as a model for other federal
agencies. |
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9/1/04 - Hovensa, LLC, operator of one of the
world’s largest oil refineries producing 495,000
barrels-per-day in St Croix, Virgin Islands, retains
Mercury to conduct a fleet right sizing study. Hovensa, LLC,
is a joint venture of Amerada Hess and PDVSA. |
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8/24/04 -
Mercury selected by the City of Seattle Public Utilities Department
to conduct a fleet management best practices review. The
project also includes analyzing fleet replacement
practices, developing the most advantageous ownership
and maintenance models, and optimizing the size and
composition of SPU’s 1,000 unit fleet. |
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8/24/04 - Virginia Department of Transportation
selects Mercury Associates to evaluate its fleet
replacement and facility capital improvement programs
and identify opportunities to improve their underlying
spending prioritization and budgeting methodologies.
VDOT is one of the nation’s largest state departments of
transportation with more than 10,000 rolling stock units
in its fleet and several hundred maintenance, fueling,
and other facilities. |
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8/20/04 - Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania
retains Mercury to implement its computerized fleet
replacement planning program CARCAP™ and assist it in
evaluating alternative financing approaches for its
vehicle and equipment fleet. |
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8/18/04 - The City of Columbus, Ohio selects
Mercury to conduct a best practices assessment of its
fleet management operations and to study the pros and
cons of developing a centralized approach to managing
its fleet. Columbus, which is the 15th largest city in
the country, operates a fleet with 6,500 vehicles. |
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7/30/04 –
Mercury selected by the State of South
Carolina to explore the potential benefits of
switching from ownership of its light duty fleet to
leasing vehicles from private firms. The project, which
covers 4,900 vehicles and pieces of equipment, will also
include exploring the costs and benefits of outsourcing
maintenance, fuel activities, and other fleet management
services. |
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7/26/04 -
Mercury awarded a contract by the State of
New Mexico Department of Transportation to provide
consulting services and training in fleet management
best practices. Target areas include operational
competitiveness, outsourcing, and fleet replacement
planning. |
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7/12/04 - The City of Wyoming, Michigan
selects Mercury to develop a long-range fleet
replacement plan, and new capital and operating
charge-backs for its fleet of 500 vehicles and pieces of
equipment. The operations will also be reviewed for
compliance with industry best practices. |
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6/16/04 - Mercury selected by the Town of Groton, Connecticut to conduct an evaluation
of its fleet of 250 vehicles and equipment. The project
will focus on vehicle replacement planning, alternative
financing approaches, and cost charge-back rate
methodology. |
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6/4/04 - The Los Angeles Metro
Transportation Authority (LA MTA) extends its
contract with Mercury to conduct a cost of service
analysis for heavy maintenance activities at MTA's
Regional Rebuild Center. Results of the study will be
used as part of MTA's effort to institute a cost
charge-back system for support services activities. |
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6/1/04 - Harris County Precinct Two signs contract
with Mercury to host fleet information system. Harris
County (Houston, Texas) is the third largest county in
the US. Precinct Two is the fifth vehicle and equipment
maintenance
agency in the County to use Mercury's enterprise asset
management systems hosting service. |
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5/27/04 - Mercury selected by the City of Clovis,
California to conduct a comprehensive review of its
vehicle and equipment fleet management program. The
project will emphasize the use of industry best
practices and operational competitiveness. |
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5/10/04 - Marion County, Oregon selects Mercury to
conduct an assessment of its light duty fleet
maintenance operation. The study includes an evaluation
of fleet maintenance services with specific emphasis on
benchmarking performance, evaluating the fleet size and
composition and assessing the County’s vehicle
replacement program. |
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5/4/04 - City of Tacoma, Washington taps Mercury
Associates to conduct cost-benefit analysis of its
police vehicle take-home program. |
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4/30/04 - Mercury selected by the City of
Dearborn, Michigan to facilitate the establishment
of a Vehicle and Equipment Advisory Board to develop
citywide fleet policies, implement best management
practices, and to advise the Mayor on methods to lower
fleet operating costs. |
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4/23/04 - SERVICE AWARD: Chris Amos, CAFM, receives
NAFA's highest honor for his 20 years of contributions
to the fleet management profession. Chris is the
Commissioner of Equipment Services for the City of St.
Louis and a Senior Associate with Mercury. |
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4/12/04 – Mercury selected by Transportation
Concepts to audit bus maintenance practices for its
division that provides contract services to Omnitrans.
Omnitrans is the public transit agency serving 15 cities
and unincorporated areas of San Bernardino County in
Southern California. |
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3/29/04 - City of San Antonio retains
Mercury to review fleet replacement planning, rate
development, and fund management practices for its $24
million-per-year vehicle and equipment replacement
program. |
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2/5/04 - Mercury awarded contract with the Los
Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
to benchmark component rebuilding and heavy maintenance
costs for its fleet of 2,400 buses. LA MTA is one of the
largest transit operations in the United States. |
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2/25/04 – Mercury selected by Genesee County, MI
to review the efficiency and effectiveness of the
County’s Motor Pool operations. The motor pool consists
of 225 vehicles and pieces of equipment. |
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1/22/04 - State of Oregon selects Mercury to
perform management review and competitiveness assessment
of its state-wide fleet of 7,500 vehicles and pieces of
equipment. |
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1/22/04 - NISH extends contract with Mercury
to provide fleet maintenance consulting services at Fort
Lewis, WA US Army base and to develop strategic business
plan for nationwide initiative to provide fleet
management and maintenance services for federal DoD and civilian
agencies. |
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1/8/2004 - The University of Alabama retains Mercury to assess the
feasibility of outsourcing its maintenance and motor
pool services and analyze vehicle leasing options. |
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12/11/03 - Mercury awarded contract with Ventura County, California to conduct a
comprehensive review of the County's 1,350 vehicle and
equipment operation and fleet management program. The
focus of the review is on benchmarking the program against
industry best practices, conducting a competitiveness assessment
of its costs and service levels, and reviewing its cost charge-back
methodology. |
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12/11/03 - Mercury signs contract
with the City of Reno, Nevada to provide a cost of
services analysis for its fleet of 700 vehicles. The project
entails determining the city's cost for providing various fleet
services and benchmarking these costs against other best in
class fleet operations. |
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12/02/03 - City of Philadelphia
retains Mercury to evaluate replacement financing options for
its 6,000 - unit fleet. Mercury will develop a detailed 20 year
financial plan that indicates when vehicles and equipment should
be replaced and the cost associated with their replacement. The
plan will also present the City with different replacement
funding options (i.e. lease - purchase, reserve fund, and cash). |
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11/24/03 - Mercury wins contract
with the Virginia Department of Transportation to
assist with fleet maintenance managed competition. The
consulting firm will assist the employee group to determine
their current cost of operations, develop their most efficient
organization, and prepare a response to the State's managed
competition RFP. VDOT owns 30,000 pieces of equipment which are
maintained at 85 repair facilities around the State. |