ABM Engineering Contracts with United States Postal Service.

Business Editors

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2003

ABM Engineering Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), has been awarded a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract with the United States Postal Service (USPS). ABM will provide engineering, cleaning, vendor management and maintenance service for the USPS Information Technology and Accounting Service Center, a 350,000-square-foot office building and data center complex located in Eagan, Minnesota.

"Our staff and management are pleased to work with the United States Postal Service," said Jim Scranton, president of ABM Engineering Services. "With our enhanced, customer-focused standards, ABM Engineering looks forward to offering the industry's best quality-management program for the USPS's Information Technology and Accounting Service Center, which provides information technology support for 800,000 Postal Service employees," he added.

Since 1775, the U.S. Postal Service has connected friends, families, neighbors and businesses by mail. It is an independent federal agency that makes deliveries to 137 million addresses every day and is the only service provider to deliver to every address in the nation. The Postal Service receives no taxpayer dollars for routine operations, but derives its operating revenues solely from the sale of postage, products and services. With annual revenues of more than $65 billion, it is the world's leading provider of mail and delivery services, offering some of the most affordable postage rates in the world. The U.S. Postal Service delivers more than 43 percent of the world's mail volume -- some 207 billion letters, advertisements, periodicals and packages a year -- and serves seven million customers each day at its 38,000 retail locations nationwide.

ABM Engineering Services is one of the nation's largest providers of on-site operating engineers, with over 2,500 employees nationwide. ABM Engineering has offices in most major cities, including Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco and Tampa.

ABM Industries Incorporated is one of the largest facility services contractors listed on the New York Stock Exchange. With annualized revenues in excess of $2.1 billion and more than 63,000 employees, ABM provides janitorial, parking, engineering, security, lighting, mechanical and network services for thousands of commercial, industrial, institutional and retail facilities in hundreds of cities across North America. In addition to ABM Engineering, the ABM Family of Services includes ABM Janitorial, Ampco System Parking, American Commercial Security (ACSS), Amtech Lighting, CommAir Mechanical and ABM Service Network.