SLED Opportunity · TEXAS · TEXAS
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Workforce Solutions Cameron seeks proposals for fiscal monitoring services including financial risk assessments, compliance reviews, and monitoring plan development for workforce development programs in Texas.
Workforce Solutions Cameron (WFSC) is a private, non-profit corporation that provides policy planning, oversight and evaluation of a consolidated workforce development system in the Cameron County Texas Workforce Development Area. The programs are provided through two one stop full services centers operated by a subrecipient, Southwest Key Workforce Development, LLC. The services offered through the one stop centers include the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Trade Adjustment Act (TAA), Wagner-Peyser Act (ES), Child Care and other smaller grants.Southwest Key Workforce Development, LLC operates under a cost reimbursement contract with Workforce Solutions Cameron.Southwest Key Workforce Development, LLC maintains a corporate office in Austin, Texas, where the President, Human Resources, Procurement, and Financial Operations are maintained. In addition, a local office in Brownsville, Texas houses accounting and human resource staff along with management and staff who manage and oversee the one stop center services.SERVICES REQUESTED:WFSC is requesting proposals for Fiscal Monitoring Services.Specific monitoring services requested include, but may not be limited to:• Financial Risk Assessment, Fiscal Integrity reviews as appropriate, and financial compliance reviews yearly through the potential 5-year contract period.• Fiscal Monitoring must include a risk assessment tool and a monitoring plan. The reporting and resolution process shall be based on the Board's monitoring procedures. The selected bidder must create a risk assessment tool which shall indentify high risk areas. The selected bidder shall be responsible, jointly with the Board, for determining what constitutes high-risk areas.• Provide a formal final written report of all monitoring findings/management observations to WFSC within 30 days of the review. All backup documentation pertaining to the monitoring process shall be provided to WFSC in its entirety.• Use of desk and on-site reviews to conduct monitoring reviews. The desk review will include, but will not be limited to procedures, contract compliance, and financial reports.• Develop a monitoring instrument that shall comply with the Texas Workforce Commission’s (TWC) Financial Manual for Grants and Contracts and relevant federal/state regulations.• Monitoring activities shall assess a contractor’s financial compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and authoritative pronouncements and contract provisions.• Monitoring activities shall ensure all sub-recipients/sub-contractors have developed and implemented written policies and procedures that describe and support the monitoring process.• Other special fiscal related reviews as deemed necessary by WFSC.
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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