BNSF Railway Selects Professional Services Firm MDI Group to Manage Contingent Staffing Services

DALLAS, August 4, 2008 – MDI Group announced today that BNSF Railway Company has selected MDI Group’s IT Workforce Solutions unit to handle all of the railway’s technical, administrative, and financial contingent staffing functions. MDI will provide BNSF with a complete Managed Service Provider program that will reduce the company’s total cost for contract labor, while managing the overall program more efficiently and with higher productivity. MDI will administer and manage the Contract Worker program at BNSF locations in the U.S.

“We are honored that BNSF Railway has selected MDI Group for its contingent staffing needs,” said Ella Koscik, CEO, MDI Group. “MDI Group’s approach to creating solutions is consultative and collaborative, in both program implementation and ongoing management. We will develop a tailored solution for BNSF that aligns with the company’s corporate strategic objectives.”

Koscik added: "This is an exciting partnership because the alignment of the cultures of BNSF and MDI Group enable a solution that drives value for both organizations."

Why MDI Group?
As the Managed Service Provider (MSP), MDI Group will leverage its vast staffing experience to develop a program with a corporate focus on key business objectives and collaboration among stakeholders. Fieldglass InSite®, a best-of-breed Vendor Management System (VMS) solution, will automate and streamline the requisition process, and its real-time reporting functionality will help MDI deliver key metrics to improve program visibility and overall process standardization.

“We are excited to join forces with MDI Group,” said Andrew Manthei, Director Strategic Sourcing at BNSF. “This new partnership will enable BNSF to leverage MDI Group’s industry knowledge of Managed Services to help improve efficiencies, provide quality contract workers, and align Strategic Sourcing with their stakeholders.”

With a technology-enabled program, MDI Group is well-positioned to help BNSF realize program efficiency, control costs, improve worker quality and ensure compliance with corporate and government regulations. The services provided for BNSF by MDI Group will include:

• Dedicated on-site support persons managing the program, located at the BNSF headquarters in Fort Worth
• Use of Fieldglass InSite
• Requisition management
• On-boarding, assignment, and off-boarding management
• Maintaining program and technology training and guides
• Staffing Supplier Engagement and Management Program, including contract ownership, pricing, and rate standardization for optimization
• Consolidated invoicing and Staffing Supplier payments
• Independent Contractor Review and Management Program
• Supporting the BNSF Contract Worker Policy
• Co-employment Risk Mitigation Program

The solution will be implemented in three phases to gradually incorporate all Staffing Suppliers and Contract Workers based in the U.S.

About BNSF
A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), BNSF Railway Company operates one of the largest North American rail networks, with about 32,000 route miles in 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is among the world's top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain than any other American railroad, carries the components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough low-sulfur coal to generate about ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States. BNSF is an industry leader in Web-enabling a variety of customer transactions at www.bnsf.com.

About Fieldglass, Inc.
Fieldglass, Inc. provides the leading unified technology platform for acquiring all human capital, including contingent workers, services and direct hires. The award-winning, on-demand InSite® product suite helps companies determine the right worker composition across all labor types and tap into known talent resources, such as alumni, retirees and interns. Using InSite, global companies can reduce hiring cycles, enforce compliance and control spend to remain competitive.

Fieldglass customers representing Global 2000 firms, including Allstate, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Metavante, Verizon Wireless and Wyeth, use InSite to manage contingent workers in a variety of categories, including light industrial, IT and administrative, and the procurement of projects, offshore and deliverables-based work. For more information, visit www.fieldglass.com.

About MDI Group
MDI Group is a premier IT Workforce Solutions provider with more than 20 years expertise in finding 'best-fit' IT talent for mid-sized to Fortune 500 clients nationwide. Offering IT Staffing Solutions and Contingent Workforce Management, MDI Group has recorded profitable growth every year since it was established in 1988. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, MDI Group has also been named one of Atlanta's 40 best places to work. To learn more about MDI Group, please visit www.mdigroup.com.

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