Ernest W. Meier

Ernest W. Meier is a sole proprietorship doing business as Loan Review Services. It specializes in providing analytical credit evaluation and risk assessment services to support federal agencies in overseeing the safety and soundness of financial institutions and banking practices. Loan Review Services has been registered as a for-profit vendor to receive federal awards since 2009.

Ernest W. Meier has primarily been awarded firm-fixed price delivery order contracts by the Department of the Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). These delivery orders facilitate Ernest W. Meier providing national bank examination services and credit analysis support under the OCC's National Bank Examination Services program. The contracted services involve performing on-site reviews and evaluations of loan portfolios, credit risk assessments, and general examination of banking operations to ensure compliance with regulations and safety standards. Recent examples include a $13,502 delivery order for credit analysis in Washington D.C. ending in January 2024, a $13,050 order for credit analysis in Wichita, Kansas completed in July 2023, and a $9,328 order for credit analysis work in Minneapolis, Minnesota finished in March 2023. No set-asides were designated for these awards.

In March 2022, the OCC awarded Ernest W. Meier an indefinite delivery contract to be a single awardee for procuring national bank examination services. This single award IDV has a $1,094,700 maximum value over five years, ending in February 2027, and utilizes a total small business set-aside. Task orders subsequently issued include the three credit analysis awards in Washington D.C., Wichita, and Minneapolis mentioned above. The IDV facilitates continuing acquisition of services from Loan Review Services to assist the OCC in conducting regular risk-focused examinations of federally chartered banks throughout the United States as part of its regulatory oversight mission.