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c o o CAPABILITIES AND EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW Ceres is a government-contracting firm that has been in business since 1977. Ceres has been awarded contracts totaling over $700M in disaster recovery work during the past eight years providing demolition, construction, and environmental services for a variety of governmental agencies. Ceres has been awarded and successfully performed contracts in nearly every State of the Union. Our geographic areas of operations have ranged from Greenland to Puerto Rico, and Hawaii to Ascension Island. Our mission is to satisfy our customers while performing specialty heavy construction tasks for governmental units while meeting high standards of ethics, safety, and honesty. We take pride in doing excellent work, and we are eager to fill a specialty role for our client governmental agencies when they encounter a situation outside their normal scope of operations. We have filled those types of roles for 30 years and have never defaulted on a contract while generating a long list of customers who commend Ceres, including the Department of the Navy who stated, in their evaluation of Ceres' work, that Ceres was "perhaps the finest contractor I have worked with.... " Ceres has performed very well for a multitude of clients with disaster response services following hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms, and other disasters, and we would welcome the opportunity to work for any government agency. The core competencies Ceres commits to the performance of our contracts include: . Management Finances and Accounting Equipment Subcontractors Experience . . . . MANAGEMENT Ceres' three company officers all have extensive individual emergency response experience of 31, 21, and 25 years. Ceres has a professional staff of 47 individuals, including staff that hold degrees in: Business Administration, Civil Engineering, Forestry, Geology, Science, and Accounting. As part of the Company's dedication to quality and safety, many of Ceres' management staff are U.S. Army Corps of Engineers certified in Construction Quality Management, and are Red Cross certified in first aid and have completed OSHA's 40 hour safety training course. Ceres' management has demonstrated its ability to respond to large-scale events. In response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) awarded Ceres a $500M contract for disaster response including the tasks of: loading, hauling, reducing, and dispOSing of debris and white goods; trimming and removal of hazardous trees; demolition of storm damaged buildings; collection of household garbage; environmental sampling and monitoring of disposal sites; and life support services. Geographically, this contract covered an area encompassing 11 Louisiana Parishes and the operation of 54 reduction/disposal sites. Ceres' management personnel coordinated a record setting mobilization response and hauled more than 45,000 cubic yards of debris on its first day (in Jefferson Parish, LA). The large scale quantities successfully completed under this contract include: a maximum production of 194,584 cubic yards per day; project wide hauling, reducing, and disposing of over 13.4 million cubic yards of debris and over 315,000 units of white goods; and trimming or removing over 165,000 hazardous trees. Ceres' management has demonstrated its ability to respond to multiple events. Following Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma in 2005, Ceres performed emergency response contracts in addition to the large-scale USACE contract described above. Other contracts performed simultaneously include: Hurricane Katrina debris removal for the City of Biloxi, MS; Hurricane Wilma debris removal for the City of Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Hurricane Katrina debris removal for the Parish of Terrebonne, LA; and the installation of over 22,000 temporary roofs on private residences in two states under two separate "Blue Roof' contracts with the USACE. During this same period, Ceres maintained its schedule on its non- C~RB~S Tab B. General Information Section B.1. Capabilities and Experience Page 1 of 6