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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF APRIL 21, 2013 FBO #4166
SOLICITATION NOTICE

R -- UCAL (UC Davis) Data Analytics Audit Services - Limited Source Justification

Notice Date
4/19/2013
 
Notice Type
Fair Opportunity / Limited Sources Justification
 
NAICS
541211 — Offices of Certified Public Accountants
 
Contracting Office
Department of the Interior, National Business Center, AQD - Herndon, 381 Elden St. Mail Stop 2510, Herndon, Virginia, 20170, United States
 
ZIP Code
20170
 
Solicitation Number
D13PS00126
 
Archive Date
5/19/2013
 
Point of Contact
Randy Artz, Phone: 703-964-8429
 
E-Mail Address
randy_artz@nbc.gov
(randy_artz@nbc.gov)
 
Small Business Set-Aside
N/A
 
Award Number
GS-23F-0004U
 
Award Date
4/15/2013
 
Description
Limited Source Justification The Department of the Interior, Interior Business Center (IBC) - Acquisition Services Directorate (AQD) on behalf of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Inspector General (OIG) plans to contract by means other than full and open competition. This document sets forth the justification and approval for award of a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) on a limited source basis as required by FAR 8.405-6. The action being approved is for audit services using data analytics for a firm fixed price task order. The order is a logical follow-on to order / GST1111BJ7023 awarded competitively to Withum Smith + Brown (WSB) on 08/05/2011 against GSA Schedule # GS-23F-0004U. Under order GS-23F-0004U / GST1111BJ7023, the National Science Foundation Office of Inspector General (NSF OIG) engaged WSB to provide audit services using data analytics to support two NSF OIG audits, the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the University of California Davis (UC Davis). The objective of these audits was to determine if the costs claimed by these two Universities on their NSF awards for the period January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2010 were allocable, allowable, reasonable, and in conformity with NSF award terms and conditions and applicable Federal award requirements. For these audits, WSB supported the NSF-OIG's audit by providing data analytics services (e.g., for each data set, searching for duplicate entries; utilizing Benford's law; analyzing burn rates for expenses for end of grants periods and grant extension periods; reviewing outliers from stratified expense categories; comparing employee information to payroll, vendor and participant support expenditure entries; comparing University employee and vendor lists to suspension and debarment lists, etc.) in order to discern anomalies, outliers, and aberrant transactions which appeared to represent unallowable, unallocable, and/or unreasonable costs charged to UCAL's NSF awards. WSB also assisted the NSF OIG with testing these aberrant transactions during audit field work to determine if such claimed costs were in fact allowable, allocable, and reasonable. The contractor provided two senior-level auditors for this effort.
 
Web Link
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/notices/7858888bf55cc2bc4c831997fb5a7d04)
 
Place of Performance
Address: National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Virginia, 22230, United States
Zip Code: 22230
 
Record
SN03041010-W 20130421/130419234245-7858888bf55cc2bc4c831997fb5a7d04 (fbodaily.com)
 
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