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CERES ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES , INC . -Indian River County Debris Removal and Disposal Corporate Qualifications 13 July 2005 STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS All three company officers at Ceres have extensive individual emergency response experience of 28 , 18 and 22 years . Ceres' has a professional staff of over forty individuals holding degrees in : Business Administration , Civil Engineering , Forestry, ❖ RESOURCES Geology, Science and Accounting . As part of the Ceres Environmental is a licensed Florida general Company's dedication to quality and safety, over contractor and a government contracting firm that half of Ceres' management staff are U . S . Army has been in business since 1977 and has Corps of Engineers certified in Construction Quality, completed over $ 115 million in disaster recovery are Red Cross certified in first aid and have work during the past seven years. Ceres also completed OSHA's 40 hour safety training course. provides demolition , construction and environmental services for a variety of During the 2004 Florida Hurricane season , Ceres governmental agencies. Ceres has been awarded received high evaluations from the Corps of and successfully performed contracts in nearly Engineers and Palm Beach County for its recovery every State of the Union . Our geographic areas of work. Here, Ceres' management staff demonstrated operations have ranged from Greenland to Puerto its ability, by simultaneously managing operations in i Rico and Hawaii to Ascension Island . nineteen Florida counties for its $50+ million work in temporary roof repairs known as "Operation Blue Our mission is to satisfy our customers while Roof" (which included over 4000 roofs in Martin performing specialty heavy construction tasks for County) while concurrently hauling and reducing governmental units while meeting high standards of over 600 , 000 cubic yards of debris. ethics , safety and honesty. We take pride in doing excellent work, and we are eager to fill a specialty Another demonstration of Ceres' management role for our client governmental agencies when they ability is its performance on Hurricane Georges encounter a situation outside their normal scope of recovery work for the Corps of Engineers in Puerto operations . We have filled those types of roles for Rico . Here, Ceres management successfully 28 years and have never defaulted on a contract operated seventeen temporary reduction sites over while generating a long list of customers who an area of 3000 square miles across the island of commend Ceres, one of whom stated that Ceres Puerto Rico and reduced , processed and sorted was " perhaps the finest contractor I have worked over 2 . 3 million cubic yards debris while with . . . . " (see past performance section ) . simultaneously hauling and disposing of 1 million cubic yards of debris (& processed material) , and Ceres has offices in Brooklyn Park, MN ; Houston , installing approximately 3 , 000 temporary roof TX; Perris, CA; Lajas, Puerto Rico; a satellite office repairs . For this work Ceres employed over 1400 in Fort Pierce, FL; and an equipment maintenance local employees. facility in Bonifay, FL . ❖ Finances and Accounting The core competencies Ceres commits to the Ceres has bonded $53 million on Operation Blue performance of this contract include: Roof in 2004 , and can finance performance of a multi-million dollar project. Ceres has $ 17 . 5 million ❖ Management dollars in liquid working capital with additional credit ❖ Finances and Accounting lines available as needed . Ceres has provided ❖ Equipment $ 10, 000, 000 in financing for up to 6 months on a ❖ Subcontractors previous emergency response project. Our ❖ Experience accounting staff has the proven ability of using ❖ Management custom software , to processes over 5000 truck load tickets daily and assist with preparing FEMA reimbursement reports. Ceres is very strong ( financially and will not be hampered by lack of l Page 1 The information (data) contained in this proposal or quotation constitutes a trade secret and/or information that is commercial or financial and confidential with the understanding that is will not, without permission of the offeror, be used or disclosed other than for evaluation purposes; provided, however, that in the event of contract is awarded on this proposal or quotation the Government shall have the right to use and disclose this information (data) to the extent provided in the contract. This restriction does not limit the Government's right to use or disclose this information (data) if obtained from another source without j restriction.