SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Fiduciary Compliance Audit Services - DRAFT STATEMENT OF WORK
- Notice Date
- 12/19/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541211
— Offices of Certified Public Accountants
- Contracting Office
- Department of Labor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management, Procurement Services Center, S-4306 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20210-0001, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20210-0001
- Solicitation Number
- DOL131RI21620
- Archive Date
- 1/31/2013
- Point of Contact
- Sheila J. Thompson,
- E-Mail Address
-
thompson.sheila@dol.gov
(thompson.sheila@dol.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- DRAFT STATEMENT OF WORK This sources sought announcement is for information and planning purposes only; this announcement is not a formal solicitation and not intended as a commitment by the Government. A contract may not be awarded as a result of this sources sought announcement. The Office of Procurement Services, on behalf of the Employee Benefits Security Administration, is seeking qualified and capable vendors to provide fiduciary compliance audit services, with an emphasis on identifying capable HUBZone Small Business, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, and Small Business concerns. The Government intends to solicit and procure the required services under set-aside or full and open procedures supported by this source sought announcement. If at least two responsible SDVOSB, or HUBZone providers are determined by the Government to be capable of performing this requirement based on an evaluation of the capability packages submitted by Wednesday, 16 January, 2013 12:00 PM EST, the requirement will be solicited as a 100% for SDVOSB or HUBZone. If two or more SDVOSB or HUBZones are not found capable, and two or more small business have been identified that are capable of providing these services the requirement will be solicited as a 100% set-aside for small business concerns. If capability packages are not received from at least two responsible small business concerns in accordance with FAR Part 19 by the response date, or if the Government determines that no small business concerns in accordance with FAR Part 19 are capable of performing this requirement based upon an evaluation of the capability packages submitted; this requirement will be solicited under full and open competitive procedures. Only small businesses are to submit capability packages. Interested small business concerns capable of providing services under NAICS code 541211 with a size standard of $8.5M are encouraged to submit their capability packages. The capability packages for this sources sought market survey are not proposals, but rather statements regarding the company's existing experience in relation to the areas specified in the PWS. Capability packages must not exceed 15 pages and must be submitted electronically. All contractor questions must be submitted no later than January 4, 2013 at 10:00 AM EST. Small business concerns are to outline their experiences in the following: 1. Experience in performing financial, economy and efficiency, and programmatic audits of large, complex financial oriented entities. 2. Experience in reviewing, analyzing and security testing sophisticated, complex IT systems. 3. Experience in reviewing large investment management operations, including pricing reviews and portfolio analysis. 4. Experience in developing and performing audit programs covering large entities with complex operating structures. 5. Experience in reviewing program operations for compliance with regulations addressing fiduciary issues. Areas or tasks where a contractor does not have prior experience should be annotated as such. A written Request for Proposal (RFP) will be posted on or about 21 March 2013. The RFP must be retrieved and downloaded from FedBizOpps at www.fbo.gov. No hard copies of the RFP will be issued. All amendments will be posted and must be retrieved from this website. Responses to the RFP must be submitted by email to the POC identified below. No solicitation mailing list will be compiled. Contractors are responsible for all costs for submitting their capability packages. POC is Sheila Thompson, at Thompson.sheila@dol.gov.
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