SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Financial Audit Services
- Notice Date
- 7/13/2017
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541211
— Offices of Certified Public Accountants
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- AMDTC-17-0021
- Archive Date
- 8/11/2017
- Point of Contact
- Divya Soni, Phone: 3019756394
- E-Mail Address
-
divya.soni@nist.gov
(divya.soni@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Sources Sought Notice ONLY. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not receive a response. This Notice is for planning purposes only and is not a Request for Proposal or Request for Quotation or an obligation on the part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for conducting a follow-on acquisition. NIST does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Notice, or otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement or payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by NIST will arise as a result of submission of responses to this Notice and NIST use of such information. NIST recognizes that proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary components, interfaces and equipment, and clearly mark restricted or proprietary data and present it as an addendum to the non-restricted/non-proprietary information. In the absence of such identification, NIST will assume to have unlimited rights to all technical data in the information paper. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS EXIST AT THIS TIME. Background: The Department of Commerce's mission is to create the conditions for economic growth and opportunity. It is made up of a departmental management, headquartered in Washington, DC, and several bureaus with more than 46,000 employees. In addition, DOC has field offices in all states and U.S. territories. It also maintains offices in 86 countries worldwide. The Department is composed of the following bureaus and offices: - Bureau of Economic Analysis - Bureau of Industry and Security - Bureau of the Census - Economic Development Administration - Economics and Statistics Administration - International Trade Administration - Minority Business Development Agency - National Institute of Standards and Technology - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - National Telecommunications and Information Administration - National Technical Information Service - Office of the Secretary, often referred to as Departmental Management - Office of Inspector General (OIG) - United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Additional information about the Department, including its budget and program activities of its bureaus and offices, can be found on its website at www.commerce.gov. See the OIG's website at http://www.oig.doc.gov for reports on the Department's programs, as well as top management challenges facing the Department. The Department's Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Agency Financial Report is located at http://www.osec.doc.gov/ofm/OFM_Publications.html. The USPTO's FY 2016 Performance and Accountability Report is located at https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/performance-and-planning/uspto-annual-reports. Requirement: The Department of Commerce's OIG has a requirement for a qualified, independent certified public accounting firm to conduct annual audits of the Department's financial statements and other financial-related data. Each of the audits shall be conducted as separate and distinct audits under this contract. The accounting firm shall perform the following audits in FY 2018, as well as in four subsequent option years, if the options are exercised: a full scope audit of the Department's consolidated financial statements (Task 1) and a separate full scope audit of the USPTO's financial statements (Task 2). In addition, to assist the OIG in meeting audit and reporting requirements of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 1994 (DATA Act), the firm shall perform a separate examination of the Department's financial and award spending data in FY 2019 and FY 2021(Optional Task 3), if those options are exercised. The contractor will be required to provide all services, professional personnel (auditors, supervisors/managers, partners, and specialists), facilities, software, equipment and materials necessary to perform the required tasks, and must be able to submit audit-related deliverables, including planning documents, audit programs, and draft and final reports, in a timely manner for each task. Financial Statement Audits (Task 1 and 2) The financial statement audits include both financial audit and information technology (IT) audit work. The audits shall be performed in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards, as specified in Government Auditing Standards, and additional federal audit requirements prescribed by the Office of Management and Budget. The audit methodology used shall, at a minimum, be consistent with the Government Accountability Office's Financial Audit Manual (FAM). This methodology may be supplemented by the contractor's audit methodology; however, any methodology other than the FAM must meet or exceed the requirements of the FAM. In addition, the contractor shall perform financial statement audit work sufficient to report on the Department's closing package, in accordance with professional standards and other applicable guidance, for Task 1. Further, for each task, the contractor shall perform a review of the general IT controls and a review of application controls, as well as perform the audit work necessary to support its determination of the Department's compliance with the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996 (FFMIA). The contractor's testing of general IT controls shall include the overall IT financial statement processing environments at the Department and its bureaus, using a methodology consistent with the GAO Federal Information System Controls Audit Manual. This work must address the five major categories of general controls: 1) security management; 2) access controls; 3) configuration management; 4) segregation of duties; and 5) continuity planning. DATA Act Work (Optional Task 3) The contractor shall perform an audit or examination in accordance with Government Auditing Standards to assess the: i. Completeness, timeliness, quality, and accuracy of the Department's financial and award data submitted for publication on USASpending.gov and ii. Federal agency's implementation and use of the Government-wide financial data standards established by OMB and Treasury. The scope of this work will be the fiscal year financial and award data that the Department submitted for publication on USASpending.gov and any applicable procedures, certifications, documentation, and controls to achieve this process. To conduct this work, the contractor shall use the IG Guide to Compliance under the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014, which presents a common methodological and reporting approach for the Federal IG community's use in performing this mandated work. Interested parties shall describe the professional capabilities of their organization, as well as the organization's personnel resource capacity, as it relates to the services described above. NIST anticipates issuing a Request for Quotation in the first quarter of FY2018, and awarding a contract no later than the second quarter of FY2018. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible small businesses. The small business size standard associated with the NAICS code for this effort, 541211 (Offices of Certified Public Accountants), is $20.5 Million. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a contract. Companies that can provide such services are requested to email a written response describing their abilities to divya.langhnoja@nist.gov and keith.bubar@nist.gov no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1. Name, Address, DUNS number, CAGE code, and point of contact information of your company. 2. Any information on the company's small business certifications, if applicable. 3. Description of your company's capabilities and resource capacity to conduct the services described in this notice. 4. A description of your company's previous experience providing the services described in this notice, including examples of experience conducting federal financial statement audits of similar magnitude and complexity. 5. Indication of whether the services described in this notice are currently offered via your company's GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts, Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs), or other existing Government-wide contract vehicles; and, if so, the contract number(s) for those vehicles. 6. Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in finalizing its market research. Responses are limited to a total of ten (10) pages. The responses must be in MS Word format. Pages shall be 8½-inch x 11-inch, using Times New Roman 11 Point Font. Each page shall have adequate margins on each side (at least one inch) of the page. Header/footer information (which does not include any information to be analyzed) may be included in the 1" margin space.
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