SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- ISO 9001 CERTIFICATION - SOLICITATION
- Notice Date
- 6/27/2012
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541211
— Offices of Certified Public Accountants
- Contracting Office
- U.S. Department of State, Office of Logistics Management, Acquisition Management, P.O. Box 9115, Rosslyn Station, Arlington, Virginia, 22219, United States
- ZIP Code
- 22219
- Solicitation Number
- S-AQMMA-12-R-0289
- Point of Contact
- Pete W Jones, Phone: 8437460650
- E-Mail Address
-
jonespw@state.gov
(jonespw@state.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- SOLICITATION S-AQMMA-12-R-0289 ATTACHMENTS DOCUMENTS SOLICITATION S-AQMMA-12-R-0289 ******This opportunity is a 100% Small Business Set-Aside************* In order for your organization to qualify for this opportunity you must be accredited by ANAB(ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board) as a ISO-9001:2008 Certification Body (US Based Firms) and approved to use the "IAF" (International Accreditation Forum) mark/seal, must have past experience as a Registrar for ISO-9001:2008 Certification of Financial Services Organizations of similar size and complexity to Global Financial Services (GFS). The Bureau of Resource Management, Global Financial Services (RM/GFS), has a requirement to maintain its ISO-9001:2008 certification. This certification is achieved via registration and surveillance audits conducted by an ISO-9001:2008 certification body. A Quality Management System (QMS) has been developed and deployed at the following five Global Financial Service (GFS) operations stating the size of each operation, defined by the approximate number of employees at each site: 1. GFS Charleston South Carolina - 625 employees 2. GFS Bangkok Thailand - 150 employees 3. GFS Washington, DC - 25 employees 4. GFS Paris France - 20 employees 5. GFS Sofia Bulgaria - 25 employees (will be added to the global certification in early 2013) • During the term of this Contract, the DOS may add and/or delete domestic/overseas-wide facilities, in which all requirements stated throughout this Contract shall also be in effect. The GFS QMS was implemented over the past four years and has undergone continuous improvement. All operations must be audited in accordance with the ISO-9001:2008 annually by an outside third party firm to assess the QMS effectiveness and compliance, in order to maintain certification. The ISO Accreditation bodies are: ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB) and the International Accreditation Forum (IAF). The contractor shall maintain a staff of key professionals and consultants sufficient to perform the requirements of this contract. The contractor's staff shall be available to function as Quality auditing experts and perform functions related to ISO certifications auditing. The International Accreditation Forum, Inc. (IAF) operates the program for the accreditation of bodies that provide conformity assessment services. Accreditation Bodies (third party auditing firms) which are members of IAF and their accredited Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs) are required to comply with appropriate international auditing standards (e.g. ISO-19011 Guidelines for quality and/or environmental management systems auditing) and IAF mandatory documents for the consistent application of those standards(IAF MD 5: 2009). 2-2. SERVICES Specific Requirements The U.S. Department of State (DOS) requires ISO-9001:2008 Certification to let its customers know that we have a quality system in place which supports delivering consistent financial services. Regularly scheduled internal audits of our Quality Management System (QMS) are conducted to assure that: key processes are functioning as intended, the QMS has a system for preventive and corrective actions, key performance is measured and tracked and customer satisfaction is monitored with an eye toward improving the overall management system The scope of the Quality Management System (QMS) at Global Financial Services (GFS) encompasses operations in Charleston, Bangkok, Paris (FSTO) and Washington DC and Bulgaria, Sofia. These operations provide three primary functions of financial services in support of its Quality Policy. These functions are: • Processing Overseas Official Payments for all Agencies • Paying Active Employees and Foreign Service Retirees of the Department of State • Providing Financial Accounting Services for the Department of State The operations are segmented into eight key units to accomplish these three core functions (refer to Attachment C). Each of the three core operating elements has multiple supporting offices within its structure and responsibility.
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