SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Financial Audit and Assertion Support Services
- Notice Date
- 2/21/2014
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541618
— Other Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Military Sealift Command, MSC DC, 914 Charles Morris Court, SE, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia, 20398-5540, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20398-5540
- Solicitation Number
- N00033-14-R-8001
- Point of Contact
- Jessica L. Harker, Phone: 2026855947
- E-Mail Address
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jessica.l.harker@navy.mil
(jessica.l.harker@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 1) Action Code: Presolicitation 2) Date: 02/21/2014 3) Year: 2014 4) Contracting Office Zip Code: 20398 5) Classification Code: R (Professional, administrative, and management support services) 6) Contracting Office Address: U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command 914 Charles Morris Court, SE Washington, DC 20398-5540 7) Subject: Financial Audit and Assertion Support Services 8) Proposed Solicitation Number: N00033-14-R-8001 9) Closing Response Date: 09 April 2014 10) Contact Point: Jessica Harker, Jessica.l.harker@navy.mil, 202-685-5947 11) Contract Award and Solicitation Number: N00033-14-R-8001 12) Contract Award Dollar Amount: Filled in at award 13) Contract Line Item Number: Filled in at award 14) Contract Award Date: Filled in at award 15) Contractor: Filled in at award 16) Description: The mission of the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) is to provide ocean transportation of equipment, fuel, supplies, and ammunition to sustain U.S. forces worldwide during peacetime and in war for as long as operational requirements dictate. During a contingency, more than 95 percent of all the equipment and supplies needed to sustain the U.S. military is carried by sea. As one of three TRANSCOM component commands, MSC provides the sea transportation to support the TRANSCOM mission. Numerous recent international crises underscored the vital role of MSC as a major contributor in the execution of U.S. national strategy. MSC operates an extensive fleet in support of Navy combatant forces, operates ships that provide Special Ocean mission support to U.S. Government agencies and operates ships loaded with military supplies and equipment that are prepositioned at strategic locations worldwide. MSC operates under two working capital funds (WCFs) for its distinct Navy and TRANSCOM business segments. Within MSC, the Comptroller Directorate (N8) is responsible for providing Financial Management support to all MSC Functional Directorates and Program Managers. N8 must ensure that all MSC financial systems and the resultant financial data meet the requirements of MSC Management while complying with myriad financial guidance promulgated by the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of the Navy (DoN), and others. In 2005, DoD initiated the Defense Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) Plan to set the course for improving financial information and achieving audit readiness. The FIAR Plan has three goals: (1) provide timely, reliable, accurate, and relevant financial information; (2) sustain improvements through an effective internal control program; and (3) achieve unqualified audit opinions on DoD annual financial statements. The Department of the Navy Financial Improvement Program (DON FIP) is a multi-year Department-wide effort to strengthen Navy-Marine Corps business processes and systems, transforming them to better serve worldwide operations. The program's goal is to produce financial information with greater accuracy, reliability, and accessibility. With this improved information, DON's senior leaders will be able to allocate the Department's resources in a better-informed, more precise way. Additionally, DON is engaged in a financial management transformation effort designed to resolve historical deficiencies, address new and emerging management challenges, and standardize Department-wide business processes. This initiative is being conducted in parallel with an effort to comply with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-123, Management's Responsibility for Internal Control. OMB Circular A-123 defines management's responsibility and accountability for internal control in Federal agencies and reflects policy recommendations developed by a joint committee of representatives from the Chief Financial Officer Council (CFOC) and the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE). The policy changes in this circular intend to strengthen the requirements for conducting management's assessment of internal control over financial reporting. The circular also emphasizes the need for agencies to integrate and coordinate internal control assessments with other internal control-related activities. Specifically, Appendix A of OMB Circular A-123 sets forth a methodology that agency management must follow to document, assess, test, and report on the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting. The purpose of this contract is to procure financial audit and assertion support services in support of the Comptroller Directorate (N8) of Military Sealift Command, DC (MSC-DC) to include preparing MSC to assert formal audit readiness for an independent financial audit, as well as support for MSC's accounting and budgeting policy, financial and feeder systems support, transactional support, process improvements, financial reporting, and program management support. Services will include assisting the Command in the following areas: • Sustaining audit readiness on its Balance Sheet • Sustaining audit readiness on its Statements of Budgetary Resources, Budgetary Activity and Net Cost • Achieving and sustaining audit readiness on its Operating Materials and Supplies (OM&S) segment • Achieving and sustaining audit readiness on its Property Plant and Equipment (PP&E) segment • Achieving audit readiness on its IT Systems / FISCAM segment • Developing and implementing financial and audit-readiness best practices • Assisting the command in developing internal audit capabilities for sustainment of audit readiness • Developing and implementing automated and manual financial reconciliations to be used in audit-readiness sustainment • Assisting the Command with accounting and budgeting policy, financial and feeder systems support, transactional support, process improvements, financial reporting, and program management support This requirement will be fulfilled through the single award of a cost plus fixed fee type contract. The period of performance will include a base period of one year with four one-year option periods. This procurement is a non-commercial acquisition using FAR Part 15 "Contracting by Negotiation" procedures. Services are being procured by: Military Sealift Command DC Contracting, N10 914 Charles Morris CT SE Building 157 Washington Navy Yard, DC 20398-5540 The solicitation resulting from this notice will be posted on or about 10 March 2014. 17) Place of Performance: MSC-DC Washington DC 18) Set-aside Status: Unrestricted
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- Place of Performance
- Address: MSC-DC, Washington DC, District of Columbia, 20398, United States
- Zip Code: 20398
- Zip Code: 20398
- Record
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