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MANSFIELD ENERGY

Ability and Capacity

Mansfield maintains a broad portfolio of procurement optionality to ensure reliable supply and competitive pricing in every market. In Arizona Mansfield’s entire suite of supply options are utilized to meet customer needs. This portfolio includes:

1. Mansfield Inventory – Mansfield maintains inventory in over 90 terminals throughout the United States, including Phoenix and Las Vegas area terminals

2. Refinery Contracts – Mansfield utilizes over 350 refinery contracts including 200 diesel contracts and 150 gasoline contracts. Mansfield contracts with fuel refiners in Phoenix and Las Vegas

3. Spot Rack Purchases – Mansfield maintains accesses to 900 different terminal supply points and purchases from over 100 different suppliers and resellers. In Arizona area terminals, Mansfield maintains relationships with over 10 different rack suppliers of fuel to supplement inventory and contract supply.

4. Day Deals – Mansfield enters into short-term supply deals to take advantage of real-time market volatility.

The variety of supply points reduces Mansfield’s dependency on any one local fuel supply option and enables an optimal balance of fuel costs. Maintaining diverse procurement sources and contracts ensures reliability and performance during volatile periods due to refinery outages, pipeline and terminal downtime, or natural disasters. Mansfield’s supply chain provides significant security through contracted supply yet enables a fast, flexible approach to take advantage of market opportunities.

Mansfield maintains commercial access to all third-party supply terminals serving Arizona markets.

This allows Mansfield the opportunity to buy from multiple supply points within Arizona and surrounding markets. The Department and other customers can benefit from this redundancy and flexibility through natural disasters, weather events, refinery downtime, and infrastructure interruptions.

Mansfield works with all its fuel suppliers to continually ensure compliance with area product specifications. Specific to this opportunity, Mansfield has access to gasoline and diesel products that meet the seasonal specifications as outlined in the Scope of Work. This includes Winter Blended Diesel fuel in northern locations meeting the pour point as stated in the solicitation.

Equally expansive is Mansfield’s transportation carrier base through our proprietary DeliveryOne network which brings together 1,500 transportation partners across North America in one single network to serve our customers. This allows for redundancy in any given market so if the first or even second transportation option is unavailable due to capacity constraints then Mansfield can call on multiple other options to serve our customers. The company is also mindful of the flexibility needed to serve our diverse customer base ensuring that we have a variety of transportation options in most major markets including bulk transport, tank wagon, and mobile refueling capabilities as needed. In Arizona and surrounding markets Mansfield has relationships with a variety of fuel transportation providers to meet the Bulk Fuel Delivery needs as outlined in the Scope of Work. Through the comprehensive DeliveryOne network Mansfield ensures safe and reliable transportation options are readily available for our customers.