SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Forensic Accounting Services - Afghanistan
- Notice Date
- 4/28/2011
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541211
— Offices of Certified Public Accountants
- Contracting Office
- Rock Island Contracting Center (RI-CC), ATTN: AMSAS-AC, Rock Island, IL 61299-6500
- ZIP Code
- 61299-6500
- Solicitation Number
- W52P1J11R0057
- Response Due
- 8/31/2011
- Archive Date
- 10/30/2011
- Point of Contact
- Diane Grimes, 309-782-8107
- E-Mail Address
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Rock Island Contracting Center (RI-CC)
(diane.grimes@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Competitive 8(a)
- Description
- Forensic Accounting Services - This solicitation will be an Firm fixed price IDIQ with a 6 month base option with two - 6 month options. This solicitation will be restricted to certified 8A companies. The solicitation will be released on or around 12 May 2011. This procurement requires that the contractor provide forensic accounting capabilities. Forensic capabilities for this effort includes, but is not limited to, the integration of investigation skills, research, law, quantitative methods, finance, accounting, anti-money laundering, and law enforcement officer insights required to trace the money and provide forensic accounting recommendations and support to the other experts of TF as appropriate. The investigation skills and law enforcement officer insights are twofold. First, the contractor shall assist in structuring, building and populating the forensic accounting effort through case files/databases, the linkages, and the methods, techniques and intuitions on what to look for/how to identify possible anomalies. This information will assist government officials in providing recommendations based on the facts that will feed the legal, criminal and intelligence groups. Second, the contractor is required to have the skill sets to understand and anticipate all types of information and facts as well as the structuring of the information, the need for completeness, accuracy and reporting that the legal, criminal investigators and law enforcement groups associated with this effort will require. The Contractor shall comply with all U.S. and Host Nation laws, regulations, policies, procedures, and guidelines in the performance of this requirement, and shall continuously meet US Military Service Standards unless otherwise stated. The contractor will focus on select prime contracts in Regional Command South and will attempt to gain as much information as possible about the sub-contracting networks of those select prime contracts. The contractor will be expected to take existing prime contractor information, Government provided investigation information, and Government provided intelligence information and enters it into a database. The contractor will use the databases to capture and analyze each prime contract (including the subcontracting networks and flow of funds from the prime contractor through all tiers of subcontractors), develop contract profiles, company profiles including aliases, related parties and beneficiaries, individual profiles including aliases, related parties and beneficiaries and the linkages between these profiles. These will be used to also develop decomposition maps and also to identify linkages to the subcontracting networks, aliases and related parties as well as the association of the flow of funds from the prime contractor through all tiers of subcontractors, related parties and direct and indirect recipients of benefits. This data linkage development and data mining is proactive and reactive - driven by the inputs, inquires and direction from the legal, criminal investigation, contracting, intelligence and overseeing customer. Simultaneously, the contractor will review Prime Contracts, engage with the Intelligence cell shall be conducted to understand the collected information related to designated parties including the capture of alter egos, alias, related relationships that can factor into the forensic driven relationship mappings. The Contractor shall develop the factual support for the identification of the money movement and the recipients of funds. This shall include an understanding of the monetary system, a visual of the 'real life' flow as well as the names and connections of all people, business entities and government officials that receive the funds and/or some direct benefit. This shall include primes, subcontractors, undisclosed affiliates and any parties along the way that touched the funds or influenced the flow. The contractor will track money movement and shall include a review of the financial records, in country and foreign bank accounts, subject to approval from the appropriate country, as well as conducting voluntary interviews. The contractor shall prepare an interview guide with topics of discussion prior to any interview. This guide shall be approved by the appropriate government official prior to any interviews. All statements and information provided by individuals shall be validated The financial transactions can be linked by different methods, since cash is fungible. Often times the timing of transactions and deposits, or cargo movement is the initial step in tracing the funds. The written report will include a chronology of key events, people and modus operandi, which will be linked to the financial transactions. Through this review of the money movement and underlining understanding of the monetary system, factual conclusions, briefings and reports with substantiation and recommendations will be provided to the appropriate government officials as to how contract monies were disbursed, and ultimately the direct and indirect beneficiaries.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Rock Island Contracting Center (RI-CC) ATTN: AMSAS-AC, Rock Island IL
- Zip Code: 61299-6500
- Zip Code: 61299-6500
- Record
- SN02436107-W 20110430/110428235056-aa49f925b86f0472aa4389dfaa43c84d (fbodaily.com)
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