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R -- AUDIT SERVICES SOL OAM-2000-N-0008 POC Karen T. Gantt, (202)512-2709 The U.S. General Accounting Office requires the services of independent certified public accounting firms to provide financial and financial related auditing, accounting, review, compilation, agreed upon procedures, assessments, training, consulting, assurance, and related services with respect to government corporations, federal pension plans, federal agencies, or other government and non-government entities, or selected portions thereof. The work includes, but is not limited to, the following: financial audits, including those under the requirements of GAO's Government Audit Standards; information systems (IS or EDP) general and/or application control reviews, EDP security reviews (includes penetration testing) and assessments, actuarial and appraisal services which may include actuarial or appraisal reviews, the review of actuarial or appraisal reports of others, consulting services, as well as comprehensive actuarial and appraisal projects (including those in support of or not in support of a financial statement audit); evaluation of audits, reviews, assessments and audit related work performed by other firms and governmental organizations; financial management assessments of agencies (for example, to evaluate the status of achievement of CFO Act Requirements); developing methodologies related to audits, reviews, assessments, consulting services, assurance services or other GAO work; audit surveys such as to identify auditability and audit resource needs including recommendations to become auditable; performance of agreed upon procedures as described by the AICPA in its professional standards; financial and other analyses of agencies, their programs, or plans to commit agency resources; assessments -- performance audits, peer reviews, program evaluations, performance measurement and risk assessment including the reliability of information used or planned to be used, assessments of agency cost accounting systems and plans for systems, assessments of the integration of budgetary information with accounting systems information including the reliability of the sources of budgetary data used; evaluation of agency efforts to implement financial management improvements; evaluation of financial management organizational structure and qualifications of agency personnel; and consulting services with respect to audit, review, and assessment; and any other audit, assessment, assurance, consulting, and related services as may be required to support GAO's work; accounting and related financial management or other assistance including, as appropriate, those activities previously described for GAO internal financial management data, systems, procedures, and controls. The scope of work is to be construed broadly so as to allow GAO to purchase any services a CPA firm offers to its clients, including those services developed after the contract is awarded. We anticipate multiple awards of indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts for a base period and four one-year options. Requests for the RFP must be in writingor via email and reference Solicitation No. OAM-2000-N-0008. Telephone requests will not be honored. Interested firms may telefax their requests to 202/512-2658. The RFP shall be issued on or about January 2000.***** Posted 10/15/99 (W-SN392229). (0288)

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