Exhibit A-Questions_IL_17Dec19_.docx

QUESTIONS EXHIBIT A

Your responses should provide: Existing demonstrated capability, demonstrated capacity, demonstrated knowledge and expertise, and demonstrated past experience in the following areas:

· Judicial Foreclosures

· Bankruptcy

· Evictions

· Enforcements of Judgments (For the purposes of the Capability Statement, capacity shall refer to matters such as the magnitude of the tasking, the amount of equipment or facilities involved, and the size of the staff needed).

1. Is your law firm currently licensed in the State of Illinois to provide all relevant legal services related to the prosecution and defense of judicial foreclosures, bankruptcies, evictions, enforcements of judgments and other related legal services?

If applicable, please list any other states your law firm is licensed to provide legal foreclosure services.

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2. Is your law firm able to provide these services for all counties in the state of Illinois? If not, please explain.

If you do not service all counties in the state of Illinois, please list the counties you do serve.

3. What percentage of the work would you do with your law firm’s existing employees and what percentage of the work would you be interested in subcontracting?

If subcontracting opportunities are available, do you anticipate any difficulties in subcontracting with 8(a), small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran owned small business, or women-owned small businesses?

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4. Does your law firm have the ability or experience interfacing with an integrated technology system or a mortgage/financial servicing systems? If so, please list the systems with which you currently use or have experience.

5. Initially, companies may be asked to provide services for 300-350 foreclosure cases per month. Please provide existing capabilities of your company to manage, as prime contractor, the estimated volume of cases associated with providing legal foreclosure services for the state of Illinois.

(You may cite and describe the same or similar relevant current and/or past performance of a task of this magnitude; however, this does not limit the interested contractor’s approach to demonstrate capability).

6. Does your law firm have the capability of providing reports and legal documents electronically? If so, please briefly explain your system.

7. What type of security procedures does your law firm have in place to protect Personal Identifying Information and all documents?

8. If applicable, does your law firm possess the capability to represent the Agency in state ordered mediation meetings?

9. Does your law firm possess the capability to represent the Agency in State Courts in the event foreclosures are contested?

10. Does your law firm currently have existing personnel that would allow you to be present at all Agency foreclosure sales? If not, please provide an explanation.

11. What steps would your law firm put in place to separate out financial transactions and accounting specific to USDA Rural Development transactions?

12. Would your law firm anticipate any issues with USDA Rural Development completing inspections (due diligence) on the accounts you would be handling for the Agency?

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13. Please identify if you are a small business concern. Status as a small business concern is determined in accordance with 13 CFR part 121.108. Please refer to the Federal Acquisition Regulation at www.acquisition.gov, Part 19 for additional detailed information.