City of New York Signs 5-Year Contract with RAD Energy and FUELMAN/GASCARD.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 1998--Effective May 1, 1998, the City of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of has inked a 5-year "requirements contract A written agreement whereby a buyer assents to purchase for a sufficient consideration (the inducement to enter into an agreement) all the merchandise of a designated type that he or she might require for use in his or her own established business. " with RAD (1) (Rapid Application Development) Developing systems incrementally and delivering working pieces every three to four months, rather than waiting until the entire project is programmed before implementing it. Energy Corp., a Fuelman/Gascard marketer in the northeast region, to provide America's largest municipal fleet with comprehensive fleet fuel management and reporting services. The City of New York maintains a fleet of more than 25,000 vehicles from 65 municipal departments using more than 6 million gallons of conventional and CNG CNG Compressed Natural Gas CNG Calling (Tone) CNG Comfort Noise Generation CNG Cryptography Next Generation (Microsoft Windows Vista) CNG Centre National de Génotypage fuel annually at both on-site and off-site fueling facilities. The new contract extends and expands a Gascard fleet management program developed by RAD Energy in 1993 when the City began closing many of its underground storage tank An Underground Storage Tank (UST), in United States environmental law, is a tank and any underground piping connected to the tank that has at least 10 percent of its combined volume underground. systems (USTs) and was seeking a better way to control its fueling costs. The City's fleet management program currently administers 12,517 cards and 38,855 card users on the Fuelman/Gascard system. "Managing and controlling fuel usage on such a vast and complex scale is a real challenge. We require a high level of cost controls and reporting capabilities, and we have a lot of special needs. RAD Energy and the Fuelman/Gascard system was the only supplier who could meet the level and detail of our requirements," said Ralph Pellizzi, Fuel Card Programs Manager for the City of New York Department of Citywide Administrative Service, Office of Fleet Administration and Transportation. Fuelman/Gascard provides comprehensive fuel and maintenance transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. and reporting for more than 70,000 commercial and government fleets through a rapidly expanding network of more than 150 independently owned and operated regional licensees with more than 14,000 fueling locations and 2,000 maintenance locations in 48 states. For more information, visit the Fuelman/Gascard web site at: www.fuelman.gascard.com CONTACT: RAD Energy Corp. Steven Levy For the Suffolk County, Long Island County, New York politician, see Steve Levy Steven Levy (born 1951) is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy. , 914/701-2811 slevy@radenergy.com |
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