DOD offers $1b in contracts for auditors
Connecting state and local government leaders
The Defense Department's inspector general is paying nearly $1 billion to auditing and IT firms to assist the department in improving its financial systems picture.
The Defense Department's inspector general is paying nearly $1 billion to 20 auditing and IT firms to assist the department in improving its bleak financial systems picture.
The three-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts, totaling $977.5 million and announced last month, are for the procurement of professional auditing services to support DOD's Office of Inspector General. Under the multiple-award contracts, each contractor will compete for task orders.
'Our auditors, working closely with auditors and accountants from the firms which received contracts today, will be focusing on accountability and transparency in the way we manage our finances within the Department of Defense,' said Joseph E. Schmitz, DOD's inspector general. 'The taxpayers have every right to expect it and our men and women in uniform depend upon it.'
Last July, Defense officials announced they would use direct-hire authority to recruit more than 100 auditors to work in the IG's office to improve the reliability of financial statements [see GCN story].
This latest flurry of contracts is consistent with the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, which requires inspectors general to conduct independent audits of the financial statements for their agencies to verify reliability, officials said.
The winning contractors include:
- G&B Solutions of McLean, Va.
- L.F. Harris & Associates, Certified Public Accountants, of Orlando, Fla.
- Acuity Consulting Inc. of Alexandria, Va.
- Owusu & Co. of Washington
- Gardiner, Kamya & Associates of Washington
- Morgan Franklin of Herndon, Va.
- Deloitte & Touche LLP of New York
- PricewaterhouseCoopers of New York
- Grant Thornton of Chicago
- Ernst & Young of New York
- Kearney & Co., P.C., of Alexandria, Va.
- KPMG of New York
- Reznick, Fedder & Silverman, Certified Public Accountants, of Bethesda, Md.
- Urbach, Kahn & Werlin LLP of Washington
- McConnell, Jones, Lanier & Murphy LLP of Houston
- Regis & Associates of Washington
- Brown & Co. of Largo, Md.
- William Adley & Co. LLP of Washington
- Walker & Co. LLP of Washington
- Cotton & Co. LLP of Alexandria, Va.
NEXT STORY: Users give NMCI passing grade