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<br />Company Background
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<br />Ash Britt, Inc. is a Florida based rapid-response disaster recovery and special environmental services contractor. Since
<br />our inception in 1992, we have managed and executed over eighty-five disaster projects and twenty-five special
<br />environmental projects, successfully serving more than seventy-five clients. We have been directly involved in the
<br />debris recovery efforts of thirty federally declared major disasters in eleven states, beginning with Hurricane Andrew in
<br />South Florida. Each of these recoveries was conducted under the authority and oversight of the Federal Emergency
<br />Management Agency (FEMA), positioning us as one of the foremost experts in federally funded and monitored disaster-
<br />debris response and recovery missions.
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<br />This extensive experience over the past decade and a half has created an abundance of knowledge and expertise for our
<br />principals, managers, and personnel. Our senior management and technical consultants at present have more than 150
<br />years of combined disaster-debris management experience, and are intimately acquainted with all facets of disaster
<br />recovery, including debris removal, management, reduction, processing, recycling, and disposal, as well as emergency
<br />planning, damage mitigation and risk abatement. Most importantly, they are widely conversant with the Robert T.
<br />Stafford Act and 44 C.F.R., the resultant FEMA debris management policies, and the federal Public Assistance
<br />Program procedures and guidelines. As such, our team is able to manage recovery projects carefully and in full
<br />compliance to fully maximize state and federal reimbursements.
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<br />We pride ourselves on our full-service, client-focused approach to disaster recovery, as we offer adept and balanced
<br />operational and administrative support-a factor often neglected and unfortunately paid "lip service" in our industry.
<br />We fully appreciate the exigent nature, pressing schedules, and exacting demands of recovery efforts, and we have
<br />proven through our capabilities and wherewithal to be a professional, reliable and competent contracting partner. We
<br />have witnessed first hand the economic strain and demands that communities face in the aftermath of major disasters.
<br />State and federal funding to support immediate local recovery efforts often lags significantly. To ensure a cleanup
<br />proceeds and remains on track for our clients, we have always been willing and able to delay receipt of payments and
<br />offer financial support to sustain a project. Our careful management and sound financial capacity allows us to see even
<br />the largest of recovery projects through. Our past record, as presented herein, is a testament to this.
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<br />Our expertise, capabilities and financial strength were recently highlighted by our unprecedented accomplishments as
<br />the Prime Contractor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' recovery mission for Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi.
<br />The Hurricane Katrina Mississippi recovery project was the largest and most varied debris mission by a single company
<br />in U.S. history. The lessons learned from this project, as well as from our many other diverse past projects, has allowed
<br />us to expand and fortify our technical and production abilities, making us the forerunner in the Disaster Response and
<br />Recovery industry. Our ultimate success, however, has always been underpinned by our commitment to caring
<br />management, to direct communication, to ethical business practices, and to unmatched quality control-values that have
<br />all lead to total client satisfaction time and again.
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<br />A sample of our diverse accomplishments is illustrated below:
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<br />· Primary debris contractor for: Iberia and Acadia Parishes, LA (Lili, 2002); Hampton, V A (Isabel, 2003);
<br />Charlotte Co. (Charley, 2004); Port St. Lucie and Brevard Co., FL (Frances, 2004); Escambia Co., FL (Ivan,
<br />2004); Coral Gables and Dania Beach, FL (Katrina, 2005); and Boca Raton, FL (Wilma, 2005).
<br />· Replaced 50 underground fuel storage tanks for USAF missile silos in North Dakota.
<br />· Demolished hundreds of military buildings and structures at Fort Rucker, AL; Fort Jackson, SC; Cherry Point
<br />NAS, NC; Fort Sandy Hook, NJ.
<br />· Primary contractor for the Citrus Canker Eradication Program for the Florida Dept. of Agriculture.
<br />· Primary contractor for the secondary canal-dredging project for Miami-Dade County executed under the FEMA
<br />hazard mitigation program.
<br />· Primary contractor for ice storm recovery for Bowie County, TX (2000), for Ponca City, OK (2002), for City of
<br />Gastonia, NC (2002), and for City of Sumter, SC (2003).
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<br />Ash Britt, to provide the broadest possible range of integrated services to our clients, is organized into three divisions.
<br />These divisions are:
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<br />· Disaster Recovery Services. This division provides immediate response of personnel and equipment to
<br />communities throughout the U.S. impacted by various disaster events. Moreover, the division maintains pre-
<br />event disaster response contracts with select communities throughout the nation. Pre-event training and technical
<br />assistance is also offered through this division.
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<br />AshBritt. Inc. I Sunny Isles Beach. FL I RFP No. 08-07-01
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