City of Edmonton, Canada has selected Grey Island Systems, Inc in a competitive RFP process to provide GPS/AVL for its 150 vehicles in its Waste Management fleet, according to a company statement. The initial phase was valued at $284,300. An additional 51 vehicles for the Drainage Department have since been added since the initial award.
The City of Edmonton, Alberta's Capital City is Canada's fifth largest city serving north-western Canada and is the heart of a region of more than one million people. Edmonton is known for having one of the world's most cost-competitive business environments, and was rated by the Conference Board of Canada as the top city for economic growth in the country in 2005.
This project is being managed internally by the Mobile Equipment Services (MES) branch of the Corporate Services department. MES provides a full range of fleet management services (buying, managing, maintaining and selling) for all vehicles, equipment, transit buses and emergency units used by the City of Edmonton.
"The designed flexibility of InterFleet allows the City's MES Branch to adapt the system to a broad range of network, hardware and business application requirements" said Grey Islandexecutive vice-president, Brian Boychuk. "Our focus on developing specialized public sector applications successfully tackles operational business issues while simultaneously supporting MES's interests towards fleet and vehicle maintenance issues."
