Proposals are due Monday for the Commerce Department’s auditing contract...
Proposals are due Monday for the Commerce Department’s auditing contract for the NTIA’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grantees. The original response date was last Monday, but a Nov. 15 amendment extended the deadline. The contract is to “assist the…
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[Office of Inspector General] in conducting audits and oversight into programs and operations” of the BTOP programs, the latest 76-page request for proposals said (http://1.usa.gov/T2ZLON). It described both financial and performance audits planned for many different grantees, which have operated on three-year grant cycles since 2010 when first awarded. The audit contract will last from Jan. 1, 2013, to Jan. 8, 2016, the RFP said, calling for an auditor to begin and complete 110 audits with “no more than 20 audits” in a six-month period. It prioritizes the order and schedule by which the contractor should complete the audits. The audits will take place, potentially, at the grantee locations as well as at either the Department of Commerce or the contractor’s facilities, the RFP said. Commerce is looking to audit about 50 for-profit, second-year grantees, mostly comprehensive community infrastructure recipients, and 20 second-year government and non-profit public computing center and sustainable broadband adoption grantees. It’s also seeking to audit 20 third-year BTOP government and non-profit public computing center and sustainable broadband adoption grantees as well as 20 third-year comprehensive community infrastructure grantees on the basis of equipment and closeout procedures, said the fall documents. The RFP, issued by the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, was originally posted in late October, with several amendments added over the course of the last several weeks. The federal business opportunities website lists several interested vendors (http://1.usa.gov/XKPjD7).