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' City of Sunny Isles Beach
<br /> RFP 18-04-02 Disaster Debris Management and Disposal Services
<br /> Financial Stability
<br /> Ceres' excellent financial stability means that it can provide performance and payments bonds fromII
<br /> treasury-listed carriers in amounts in excess of$500M per single project. During the 2005 storm season,
<br /> Ceres provided bonds for three concurrent Army Corps hurricane response projects with contract award
<br /> amounts of$1 B, $60M, and $50M. Ceres has unrivalled access to the levels of working capital necessary
<br /> to keep its promises and handle the biggest and most complex jobs.
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<br /> Ceres can send equipment and personnel to `,F tt;t` , ter, ��� >
<br /> respond to a disaster regardless of the �_ yll,L. t,_, . .—'r-\"t:.,„ . ..,;;.' L
<br /> availability of subcontractors. On a 2002 storm J i` ® `!,. r-----;_-_--z,,,, ,:,,+ .
<br /> debris project, for Kansas City, MO, Ceres - \ i �— 1 1 ® ., t. E
<br /> provided equipment for a project requiring ''':':'4.-:-.--,;',.„-..- ,,_,-,...,---- `'�¢ 1 "
<br /> completion within 16 days of contract award ._ ' "- y ,:tj
<br /> (the first pass required hauling over 500,000
<br /> cubic yards). Ceres successfully met the 16 day first pass deadline and the Kansas City Project Manager
<br /> in charge won an award for his outstanding disaster response performance.
<br /> Ceres owns all the life support equipment needed for supporting its own personnel including: mobile living
<br /> quarters, food supply, large potable water supply tanks, and large septic storage systems. These systems
<br /> have saved valuable management time in responses to such higher category storms as Katrina. Ceres also
<br /> has available life support systems for project-wide support and Government personnel. In Ceres' Jefferson
<br /> Parish, LA response following Katrina, for example, Ceres provided total life support for more than 40011110
<br /> people, and subcontractor fueling services for enough equipment to move 70,000 CY of debris per day.
<br /> Ceres owns four self-contained office trailers including satellite internet connections and satellite phones
<br /> as well as additional loaner satellite cell phones for the customers' management teams. Ceres regularly
<br /> supplies rental satellite phone service to its clients.
<br /> Trusted Subcontractors .
<br /> Ceres maintains one of the industry's largest networks of pre-screened and fully qualified subcontractors,
<br /> including local vendors and preferred vendors. Our subcontractors are evaluated on many levels, including
<br /> past performance, equipment and personnel availability, mobilization timeframes, insurance, and cost.
<br /> Ceres knows that a big part of local recovery is economic, so Ceres always strives to employ qualified local
<br /> labor. The subcontractors are also grouped in Response Regions based on distance from Sunny Isles
<br /> Beach's service area in order to facilitate contacts if and when pre-event mobilization plans are activated.
<br /> It is the formal policy of Ceres to utilize local subcontract services in the performance of the proposed
<br /> contract to the maximum extent possible. In the emergency disaster response and recovery activities
<br /> carried out under the contract, preference will be given, to the extent feasible and practicable, to those
<br /> organizations, firms, and individuals residing or doing business primarily in the area affected by such major
<br /> disaster or emergency. Ceres recognizes the advantages obtainable by utilizing other responsible and
<br /> experienced firms capable of furnishing specialty services and products of high quality, but first priority will
<br /> be given to those subcontractors who are from the area or regularly do business there. During Ceres'Army
<br /> Corps contracted disaster relief response in the state of Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina, local
<br /> contractors received 55.9% of the total dollars paid to Ceres.
<br /> In accordance with Ceres Corporate policies, it is our practice to use Local and other Small Businesses
<br /> (SB) and also HUBZone, Veteran-Owned (VO), Service Disabled Veteran-Owned (SDVO), Small
<br /> Disadvantaged (SDB), Women-Owned (WOSB), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), and
<br /> Minority Institutions(MI)for the provision of equipment, labor, services, and supplies to the maximum extent0
<br /> possible. In our most recent reporting on our federal contracts, we exceeded our goals in each of the
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