Service Point Provides On-Site Services to Offices of VHB

Woburn, MA (10/20/05) - Service Point announces it has partnered with Vanasse, Hangen, Brustlin, Inc. (VHB, Inc.- www.vhb.com) to provide its On-Site Services program to the firm.

Headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, VHB is an 800-person engineering, planning, and applied sciences firm that provides integrated transportation, land development and environmental services to public, private and institutional clients.

VHB has 16 office locations throughout the eastern United States in Watertown, Boston, and Springfield, Massachusetts; Bedford, New Hampshire; Middletown, Connecticut; Providence, Rhode Island; Edison, New Jersey; Newport News, Richmond, Virginia Beach, Vienna and Williamsburg, Virginia; Silver Spring, Maryland; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Orlando and Palmetto, Florida.

Engineering News Record (ENR) recently ranked VHB 90th of the Top 500 U.S. Design Firms. VHB was also included among ENR's Top 40 U.S. Transportation Firms, Top 25 Mass Transit/Light Rail Firms and Top 25 Retail Engineering Consulting Firms. VHB is also No. 2 among the best civil engineering firms to work for in the U.S., as recently rated by CE News.

Service Point’s On-Site Services program (OSS), also known as Facilities Management, provides equipment installation, including laser plotters, copiers, fax machines and large format ink jet printers within host firms, with charges based on usage only. Central to the offering is the provision of proprietary software enabling authorized firm personnel to track equipment usage and run customized, web-accessed reports on reimbursable client expenses by project. Service Point currently has over 350 programs with A/E/C firms throughout the United States.

“VHB is very excited about its new venture with Service Point”, said Phil Macpherson, VHB’s corporate facilities director, who led the selection process. “Our 6 month search for a vendor to handle our specific needs filtered through a review process involving eight potential service providers. The final decision to venture with Service Point was based on our need to have a vendor with a deep organizational structure as well as a strong presence in VHB’s major markets. In addition we are confident that with Service Point’s systems, flexibility, reputation, and ability to grow their operations along side ours, we can establish a strong partnership as we grow together in providing quality products to our clients.”

Service Point COO and Managing Director, Bill Sullivan, states, “We are very happy to be working with VHB in bringing them the efficiencies and flexibility of our systems-based On-Site Services program, specialized for A/E/C firms.”

CFO and Managing Director of Service Point, Steve Payne, adds, “VHB is a top firm in the markets they serve. We went through a very detailed planning and review process with a wide range of VHB personnel, and designed a program customized around their specific needs. We are honored to have been selected by VHB to work with them as they grow their business.”

Service Point (servicepointusa.com) assists with the document management needs of A/E/C (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) and related professionals with services that span the complete life cycle of building projects, from concept to completion, through post-construction document archiving and retrieval.

The company’s OSS program is augmented by 16 networked service centers providing digital reprographic printing services, web-based document management systems for design and building teams, and Intelligent Archiving Services (IAS), combining scanning and “active archiving” software with enhanced file linking and search and retrieval functions.

Service Point USA is a subsidiary of Service Point Solutions (www.servicepoint.net), which employs more than 1,100 people in 4 countries with an international network of over 70 service centers, and more than 450 On-Site Services and Facilities Management programs. Based in Barcelona, Spain, SPS is quoted on the Spanish Stock Exchange.

Contact:
Christine Miller
781-935-6020 x580
cmiller@servicepointusa.com