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• City of Sunny Isles Beach RFP 18-04-02 Disaster Debris Management and Disposal Services Our successful experience in multiple response situations as well as our substantial resources and teaming relationships, assures that Ceres performance on this contract will be to the City's utmost11110 satisfaction. • Ceres is Operations, not Marketing, based Ceres employs a full staff of Project Managers, Project Superintendents, Quality and Safety Managers and other debris management experts to ensure that we are always ready and able to self-perform. Our Sarasota office location ensures that we will arrive swiftly before or during an event. • Ceres' multiple locations ensure that, even if an event affects Ceres' Florida locations, other offices will swiftly take over to meet the needs of the City During 2005, Ceres' pre disaster event contracts with Terrebonne Parish, LA and Palm Beach Gardens,. FL were activated in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma. Ceres had management staff on the ground before either hurricane made landfall. Katrina and Rita work in other places already had Ceres fully mobilized and in the midst of moving millions of cubic yards of debris and installing thousands of temporary roofs in Mississippi and Florida. Nevertheless, the City of Palm Beach Gardens received such a high level of service that they evaluated Ceres' performance as"Exceptional." Ceres also has servers storing company documents in multiple locations throughout the country. If one server is lost in an event the data will not be lost, and will not prevent Ceres from performing any work for any of its clients. • Ceres is completely self-sufficient Ceres has a number of containerized offices that can be used mobile command centers. These can be moved to the disaster zone via low bed trailers and semi tractors. These mobile offices can be onsite, equipped with satellite communications and internet, and fully operational within hours. Ceres can also provide a wide variety of emergency housing options, including fully-containerized bunkhouses that can be trailered to a Sunny Isles Beach location. • Ceres' Corporate Officers are in the field ensuring the job gets done IP Ceres is structured so that one or two of the corporate officers can be absent from headquarters for extended periods of time in order to manage projects from the field. There are always one or two remaining at the headquarters to ensure continuity of management. This proved very useful when Ceres was awarded a.$1 billion contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform a disaster debris contract following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in which two of Ceres' corporate officers were in the field in Louisiana for over six months. Ceres' management is also experienced in a wide variety of geographic conditions. Their work histories include all of the U.S. Gulf states, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Thule, Greenland, Ascension Island, Haiti and New Zealand. • . Ceres' excellent financial stability means that it can provide performance and payments bonds from treasury-listed carriers in amounts in excess of$500M per single project During the 2005 storm season, Ceres provided bonds for three concurrent Army Corps hurricane response projects with contract award amounts of$1 B, $60M, and $50M. Ceres has unrivalled access to the levels of working capital necessary to keep its promises and handle the biggest and most complex jobs. After 42 years of doing demanding work in almost every U.S. state and territory, Ceres is still known for keeping its promises: Ceres has never defaulted on a contract,failed to complete a contract, nor had any client denied reimbursement. An evaluation from the Department of the Navy is typical: `perhaps the finest contractor I have worked with...."Ceres always adheres to the highest standards of quality, integrity and safety, and that's a promise we do not hesitate to make to City of Sunny Isles Beach. For more details about our qualifications please refer to Tabs 7 and 8. (CERETab 5 Qualifications and Requirements ENVIRONMENTAL - . Section 4 Why Ceres Page 5.4-2