Audit Services

The purpose of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to enter into a contract with a qualified Certified Public 
Accountant Firm to conduct an annual audit of financial transactions and accounts kept by or for the District, for the fiscal
years ending June 30, 2026; June 30, 2027; June 30, 2028, June 30, 2029, June 30, 2030 and to complete the
Uniform System of Financial Records (USFR) Compliance Questionnaire. 

Background

Littleton Elementary School District #65 is in towns of Avondale and Tolleson in Arizona and consists of nine K-8 grade school and one District Office complex. The district has 650 employees and serves approximately 6,000 students. No quantity is guaranteed. Vendor must accept purchase orders. All purchases must have a District issued Purchase Order in place before any product or services are ordered or received. Please refer to our PO terms and conditions located at www.littletonaz.org under the Departments/Business Resources tabs

Project Details

• Reference ID: RFP 26-001-31
• Department: Business Resources
• Department Head: Ryan French (Chief Administrative Officer)

Important Dates

• Questions Due: 2026-03-30T20:00:00.000Z
• Pre-Proposal Meeting: 2026-03-24T20:00:00.000Z — Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/21799012393544?p=nRnqQ5AbaD2apdOd6Z Meeting ID: 217 990 123 935 44 Passcode: dc3Nv6mh

Meetings & Milestones

Evaluation Criteria

• Price (200 pts) —

  The price or cost of the Proposal. Price or cost is a significant factor but not the most important factor.

• Responsiveness of the proposal in clearly stating an understanding of the audit services to be performed, including (100 pts) —

  1. Comprehensiveness of audit work plan
   2. Realistic time estimates of each major segment of the work plan and the estimated number of 
   hours of each staff level 

• Technical experience of the audit firm (150 pts) —

  1. Auditing Arizona school districts
  2. Auditing governments
  3. Auditing computerized systems
  4. Auditing federal programs
  5. Past performance within the District and evaluation of references

• Qualifications (100 pts) —
  1. Qualifications of supervisory staff and of the audit team performing field work 
      2. General direction and supervision to be exercised over the audit team by the audit firm's 
      management
  2. Size and structure of the audit firm, considering the scope of the audit 

Submission Requirements

• Have you read and do you accept all terms and conditions in the EDGAR requirements listed herein? (required)
• Acknowledgement and Acceptance of Terms and Conditions of the Solicitation
• Acknowledgement and Acceptance of Terms and Conditions of the Solicitation (required) —

  Explanatory Note: The purpose of this question is to confirm the Bidder’s or Offeror’s acknowledgement and acceptance of the terms and conditions of the Solicitation, subject to any exceptions or modifications to terms or conditions that are expressly requested or that have been requested and approved prior to submission of the Offer. All exceptions or modifications to the Solicitation, regardless of whether Organization Name (also referred to as the District) approved such items prior to submission of the Offer, must be clearly set forth in this question.

  The Offeror, acknowledges and accepts all terms and conditions of the Solicitation, except as expressly noted below or in the additional pages attached hereto. As used in this question, “terms and conditions of Solicitation” means all terms, conditions, specifications, certifications and warranties set forth in the documents that comprise the Solicitation, including the Uniform Instructions for Offers, Special Rules for Offers (if any), General Terms and Conditions of Contract, Special Requirements of Solicitation (if any), Specifications/Scope of Work, and Solicitation Addendums (if any).

• Exception Requested (required) —

  If you requested an exception under the Acknowledgement and Acceptance of Terms and Conditions of the Solicitation, please clearly explain the requested exception/deviation. Reference the specific language that you are taking exceptions/deviations to. Unacceptable exceptions shall remove your proposal from consideration for award. Littleton Elementary School District #65 shall be the sole judge on the acceptance of exceptions/deviations and their decision shall be final.)

  Enter N/A if this does not apply

• Request for Confidentiality of Proprietary Information —

  Explanatory Note: The purpose of this question is to request that the District treat as confidential specific information in the Offer that the Offeror or Bidder believes is a trade secret or other proprietary information. All information that is the subject of the request for confidentiality must be designated on the question below reflecting the page number and paragraph of the Offer in which it appears. An explanatory statement for the request must be clearly set forth in this question. The District Representative shall review the statement and provide the determination in writing whether the information shall be protected. If the District Representative determines that the information shall be protected from disclosure, the District Representative shall inform the Bidder or Offeror in writing of such determination. Requests to protect pricing information or the entire Offer from disclosure will be denied.

• Request for Confidentiality of Proprietary Information (required) —

  The Offeror, by the undersigned representative, requests that the specific information, described below and identified on the page or pages of the Offer in which it appears, be treated as confidential information and protected from disclosure to the public.

   

  1. Description of specific information that is the subject of the request.

   

  2. The reason or reasons why the information should be treated as confidential.

   

  Enter N/A if this does not apply

• List of Subcontractors —

  The Contractor must list below the Trade, Company name, license and classification numbers of all qualified subcontractors and/or suppliers they will employ for the various portions of the work indicated. Failure on the part of the Contractor to complete this list properly may constitute sufficient grounds to reject the bid. If no subcontractors will be listed please indicate with a N/A

  Example: Trade, Company Name, ROC License #, ROC License Classification

• List of Subcontractors (required) —

  The Contractor must list below the Trade, Company name, license and classification numbers of all qualified subcontractors and/or suppliers they will employ for the various portions of the work indicated. Failure on the part of the Contractor to complete this list properly may constitute sufficient grounds to reject the bid. If no subcontractors will be listed please indicate with a N/A

  Example: Trade, Company Name, ROC License #, ROC License Classification

• Non-Collusion Affidavit
• Non-Collusion Affidavit (required) —

  You the Vendor do confirm that your persons, corporation, or company who makes the accompanying Proposal, having first been duly sworn, deposes and says:

  That such Proposal is genuine and not sham or collusive, nor made in the interest of, or behalf of, any persons not herein named, and that the Offeror has not directly or indirectly induced or solicited any other Offeror to put in a sham proposal, or any other person, firm or corporation to refrain from offering, and that the Offeror has not in any manner sought by collusion to secure for itself an advantage over any other Offeror.

• Offer and Acceptance
• Offer and Acceptance (required) —

  Please download the below documents, complete, and upload.

• Requested Forms —

  Please complete the following downloadable forms and upload them in their respective questions.

• W-9 (required) —

  Please upload your complete W-9 here

• Certificate of Insurance (COI) (required) —

  Please upload your complete COI here

• Services Generating Cost to the District —

  A listing of any items such as letters, phone calls or other types of services generating a cost to the District and not included in the fees shown on the proposal are to be included, plus a formula or explanation of how these additional costs will be determined and billed to the District.

• Additional or separate contract —

  The form of contract for any award made as a result of this proposal will be a district purchase order, referencing this bid, which shall be considered a part of the contract. The amount will be based upon the fees shown in the bid, and will take into consideration previous and anticipated expenses for the forthcoming year. If your firm will require the District to sign an additional or separate contract, a copy of the proposal contract must be included with the proposal.

• RFP Response (No Cost Proposal) (required) —

  Please Upload your RFP Response HERE. Do NOT including pricing in this area. There will be another place to upload your Cost Proposal.

• Pricing Proposal (required) —

  Please upload your complete PRICING PROPOSAL here. Please make sure that this information is NOT included in the RFP Response Area.

• Data Verification Questions —

  These questions will be utilized to confirm information you provide

• System Award Management Verification (required) —

  Please enter your company's Legal Name and/or dba Name:

• Arizona Corporation Commission (required) —

  Please enter your company's Legal Name and/or dba Name:

• Is this a GPPCS Solicitation (required)
• Is this a S.A.V.E solicitation (required)
• Electronic Pricing Table (required) —

  Do you need an Electronic Pricing Table for this solicitation?

• Pricing Proposal Upload (required) —

  Would you like to add an area for the vendor to upload a pricing document?

• Is this project going to be federally funded? (required)
• Special Terms and Conditions Verbiage (required) —

  Please check all you will require in Special Terms and Conditions

• Do you need the Asbestos and Hazardous Materials Statement (required) —

  If you click yes this document will be added to attachments

• Do you need a subcontractors? (required) —

  If you click yes, Subcontractors verbiage will be added to Special Requirements and the subcontractors list will be added to attachments.

• Is there a potential for software? (required) —

  If you click yes, additional verbiage will be added to special requirements tab

• Insurance Requirements (required) —

  Please choose which insurance requirements you will need for this project

• Partial Bids (required) —

  Yes = Acceptable

  No = Unacceptable

   

   

• Do EDGAR terms apply to this project? (required)