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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — While the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics may have been viewed by most as a sporting and cultural gathering lasting 17 days, QEK Global Solutions' Canadian operations just recently wrapped up its Olympiad duties.

QEK Canada managed the fleet of vehicles used by the Vancouver Olympic Committee, and finished putting all vehicles out of service and returning these units in July.

But the process of collaborating with VANOC and General Motors of Canada in fleet management goes back to 2005, officials noted.

QEK Canada started teaming with VANOC and GM Canada in 2005 to manage the roughly 200 in-service vehicles in the VANOC fleet.

With the 2010 Winter Games just around the corner, the number of deliveries per day was ramped up 100 vehicles in September 2009.

Before the year ended, there were 4,632 vehicles put into service.

"QEK employees were tasked with the tremendous responsibility of managing the coordination and logistics of the VANOC fleet in Vancouver, B.C.," officials shared.

Then at the start of March, VANOC began sending vehicles back to QEK, which then oversaw the disposal of these units.  

"This required considerable coordination between QEK Canada, QEK US and the QEK IT department to process the U.S. vehicles," officials noted.

Not only did QEK Canada manage VANOC's fleet via QEK's electronic Global Asset Management software; it maintained the fleet of convoy vehicles for the Olympic Torch Relay, according to officials.

Led by QEK, the convoy traveled almost 28,000 miles across Canada during a 106-day tour. The QEK team washed the vehicles and performed any necessary maintenance on the vehicles at each nightly stop.

"The Olympic Games officially ended for QEK in July 2010 when all vehicles were placed out-of-service and returned to their final destination," officials shared.

They went on to say, "The QEK team went above and beyond to ensure the relay vehicles were ready to go in front of the world stage the next day. Each member of the group was honored to ‘run the torch' at some point in the relay — an awesome, once in a lifetime opportunity."