RFI Questions.pdf

ATTACHMENT: RFI QUESTIONS (FOR INDUSTRY RESPONSE)

1. Confirm whether your firm can support an on-site performance environment in the Washington, District of Columbia/National Capitol Region area consistent with the draft PWS place of performance, and describe your approach for maintaining continuity of operations when on-site presence is required.

2. Identify the NAICS code(s) you believe best fits this requirement and explain why.

3. Identify the Product Service Code(s) (PSCs) you believe best fits this requirement and explain why.

4. Describe your firm’s experience supporting federal agency financial statement audit readiness and audit response (including experience supporting Government Accountability Office or Inspector General engagements).

5. Describe your firm’s experience in supporting federal accounting operations for both administrative and custodial accounting activities.

6. Describe your experience preparing or supporting annual financial reports and related financial statements, notes, required supplementary information, and management discussion and analysis.

7. Describe your firm’s experience developing and/or executing account reconciliation processes, variance analysis, and trial balance support in large-scale federal environments.

8. Describe your firm’s experience supporting cost accounting and managerial reporting in federal financial environments (including Activity-Based Costing approaches, if applicable).

9. Describe your firm’s experience supporting internal control activities over financial reporting and/or financial operations, including corrective action plan development and monitoring.

10. Describe your firm’s experience supporting financial management systems in federal environments, including requirements, configuration support, documentation, testing, and reporting support.

11. Describe your firm’s experience supporting SAP-based federal financial environments (including Enterprise Resource Planning Central Component environments) and the types of functional/accounting support you provide.

12. Describe your approach to quality control for work products and deliverables (for example:

independent reviews, checklists, version control, traceability, and corrective action for defects).

13. Describe your approach to staffing and retention for key personnel and hard-to-fill financial management systems skillsets in the Washington, District of Columbia area.

14. Describe your approach to transition-in (knowledge transfer, access onboarding, documentation ingestion, continuity of operations) and typical transition-in timeline assumptions for a similar requirement.

15. Describe your approach to transition-out (knowledge transfer, documentation packaging, repository organization, and continuity of operations).

16. Identify any risks you foresee in performing the draft PWS tasks (operational, staffing, system access, schedule, audit response surge, etc.) and recommend mitigations.

17. Provide recommendations to improve the draft PWS tasks to be clearer, more outcome-oriented, and easier to measure through performance standards and Acceptable Quality Levels.

18. Identify any industry best practices you recommend the Government incorporate into the PWS (especially for audit response, systems testing evidence, and financial reporting support).

19. Provide a rough order of magnitude labor mix recommendation (not to exceed the 15-page limit) for delivering the task areas in the draft PWS, including suggested labor categories and rationale.

20. Provide budgetary rate information sufficient for Independent Government Cost Estimate development (for example: mapping to your GSA Multiple Award Schedule labor categories/rates, or a commercial fully burdened rate card), and identify the contract vehicle(s) those rates are associated with.