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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 17, 2005 FBO #1391
MODIFICATION

R -- R -- Financial Consultant

Notice Date

9/15/2005
 

Notice Type

Modification
 

Contracting Office

Attn: Department of Veterans Affairs, Acquisition Operations Service, (049A3), 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, District Of Columbia 20420
 

ZIP Code

20420
 

Solicitation Number

VA-101-05-RQ-054
 

Response Due

9/16/2005
 

Archive Date

10/16/2005
 

Point of Contact

Point of Contact - Chris Burroughs, Contracting Officer, Ph: (202) 273-4812, Fx:null, Contracting Officer - Chris Burroughs, Contracting Officer, Ph:(202) 273-4812, Fx:null
 

E-Mail Address

Chris Burroughs
(chris.burroughs@va.gov)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned
 

Description

Questions related to solicitation VA-101-05-RQ-054 1) T.O. #1 asks for a reconciliation of the VA records to the Treasury for monthly reconciliations. Is there a current state of records or history of reconciliations to date? If so, are they available for the consultant to review? Yes and Yes. The records will be available to the awarded financial consultant 2) The VA narrative states thousands of transactions and numerous points of input to the VA system are made monthly which are by definition done each month. Therefore, given the 50 hours for Task Order #1, are we to assume 4 hours per month is to be dedicated to the monthly reconciliation? Your assumption is correct. Since this is a monthly reconciliation the 50 hours divided by 12 (months) comes to approximately 4 hours per month 3) What level of VA staff participation has been allocated for this project? Minimal VA staff is allocated and the financial consultant will be working independently unless clarification or information is required 4) Are the consultant’s efforts to be oversight of an existing process with general suggestions for improvement or does the VA expect the consultant to perform reconciliations and critique the system for corrective actions? The expectations of the financial consultant are to perform the monthly reconciliations and provide Journal Vouchers which are entries to correct the general ledger and fund balances 5) Does the VA expect the consultant to implement corrective actions? Yes as mentioned in # 4 the Journal Vouchers 6) What is the current reconciliation process and have corrective actions been taken as a matter of normal business practice? The current reconciliations are monthly reviews with Journal Vouchers processed when necessary 7) What level of VA staff participation is allocated for monthly analysis of corrective measures or standardization of processes? Please see #3 and in addition VA staff reviews the Journal Vouchers (corrective measures) prior to submission into the financial system 8) Is the information from the August 05 close available for review? Yes for the awarded consultant 9) How did VA arrive at its’ estimate of 150 labor hours to satisfy the requirements of the task orders? The 150 hours were derived by the 50 hour breakdown as mentioned in #2 and 100 hours were estimated for necessary travel to VACO and Austin Finance Center along with any additional time needed for end of fiscal year review NOTE: THE 150 HOURS IS AN ANNUAL ESTIMATE NOT A MONTHLY ESTIMATE. Submitted by: The Pruitt Group, Inc. Questions related to solicitation VA-101-05-RQ-054 Submitted by: The Pruitt Group, Inc. 10) T.O. #1 asks for a reconciliation of the VA records to the Treasury for monthly reconciliations. Is there a current state of records or history of reconciliations to date? If so, are they available for the consultant to review? Yes and Yes. The records will be available to the awarded financial consultant 11) The VA narrative states thousands of transactions and numerous points of input to the VA system are made monthly which are by definition done each month. Therefore, given the 50 hours for Task Order #1, are we to assume 4 hours per month is to be dedicated to the monthly reconciliation? Your assumption is correct. Since this is a monthly reconciliation the 50 hours divided by 12 (months) comes to approximately 4 hours per month 12) What level of VA staff participation has been allocated for this project? Minimal VA staff is allocated and the financial consultant will be working independently unless clarification or information is required 13) Are the consultant’s efforts to be oversight of an existing process with general suggestions for improvement or does the VA expect the consultant to perform reconciliations and critique the system for corrective actions? The expectations of the financial consultant are to perform the monthly reconciliations and provide Journal Vouchers which are entries to correct the general ledger and fund balances 14) Does the VA expect the consultant to implement corrective actions? Yes as mentioned in # 4 the Journal Vouchers 15) What is the current reconciliation process and have corrective actions been taken as a matter of normal business practice? The current reconciliations are monthly reviews with Journal Vouchers processed when necessary 16) What level of VA staff participation is allocated for monthly analysis of corrective measures or standardization of processes? Please see #3 and in addition VA staff reviews the Journal Vouchers (corrective measures) prior to submission into the financial system 17) Is the information from the August 05 close available for review? Yes for the awarded consultant 18) How did VA arrive at its’ estimate of 150 labor hours to satisfy the requirements of the task orders? The 150 hours were derived by the 50 hour breakdown as mentioned in #2 and 100 hours were estimated for necessary travel to VACO and Austin Finance Center along with any additional time needed for end of fiscal year review NOTE: THE 150 HOURS IS AN ANNUAL ESTIMATE NOT A MONTHLY ESTIMATE. NOTE: THIS NOTICE WAS NOT POSTED TO WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (15-SEP-2005); HOWEVER, IT DID APPEAR IN THE FEDBIZOPPS FTP FEED ON THIS DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
 

Web Link

Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.eps.gov/spg/VA/VAAOAS/VADC/VA-101-05-RQ-054/listing.html)
 

Place of Performance

Address: washington, DC

Zip Code: 20420

Country: United States
 

Record

SN00896894-F 20050917/050915213730 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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