Item 24 - American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Consulting Services

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Grant Thornton Public Sector LLC City of Santa Ana | RFQ 21- 093 Revised Proposal Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the title page of this proposal or quotation. 21 programmatic document control, file retention system and data management process to validate that disaster records are complete and ready for audit, assisting in the identification and pursuit of additional federal and/or state grant funding to bolster recovery efforts, and issuing recommendations for improving the County’s grants management processes to maximize their available federal funding. We conduct testing for cost categories such as labor, rental equipment, mutual aid and management costs. New Castle County (August 2020-present) - Grant Thornton currently provides subrecipient monitoring and pre-audit readiness services to New Castle County related to their subawards of CARES Act funding. Our team assisted the County in formulating a strategy to verify compliance with federal policy by developing a comprehensive subrecipient monitoring policy. This policy includes issuance of subgrant agreements, as well as a comprehensive risk assessment. Grant Thornton also created a scoring matrix to tailor subrecipient monitoring using a risk-based methodology. Our team developed a software-based tool which enables the County to automate the self-assessment survey process for subrecipients. This tool saves the County time and effort by collecting and compiling data which can be entered into the risk assessment. Metrolink (June 2020-September 2020) - Grant Thornton assisted Metrolink with CARES Act implementation and financial modeling services that enabled internal/external reporting to support audit readiness, transparency reporting, and compliance with applicable program requirements. Our professionals aided Metrolink in managing claims to recover eligible expenses and lost revenues from COVID-19 with the primary focus on recoveries from the Federal Transit Authority (FTA) and FEMA. Our team developed an easily accessible internal executive dashboard available to our client for internal reporting. The dashboard provided key performance indicators and metrics that provided information on disaster planning, preparedness, and recovery regarding CARES Act expenses eligible for reimbursement, claim assistance, and FEMA reimbursement determination of eligibility. State of Florida, Division of Emergency Management (March 2018-present) - Grant Thornton is providing comprehensive grants management services to the State of Florida associated with their administration of FEMA’s Public Assistance Programs. Our work begins with direct involvement in project worksheet (PW) approval and continues through project closeout. Our work involves reviewing PWs in Grants Portal before providing recommendations to the state to approve or return the project to FEMA for amendments. This review includes identifying documentation necessary to support claimed costs and reconciling those costs to the total eligible amount. Grant Thornton is providing 100% validation of all claimed costs consistent with Florida’s contract requirement. Our work confirms that our client meets this requirement by monitoring subrecipients for compliance with applicable laws, rules, regulations, and policies, including 2 CFR 200, the FEMA Public Assistance Program and Guide (Version 4), and other sources of grants governance. Our compliance program is designed to verify expense eligibility by confirming that all claimed costs qualify as allocable, allowable, and reasonable. Grant Thornton enables our client to comply with federal laws governing pass-through entity responsibilities by managing the subaward and grant agreement process, reconciling eligible costs in their grants management system, and guiding subgrantees through validation to closeout by being a liaison between them and the State of Florida. To date we have processed over 1,800 reimbursements for 900+ projects amounting to over $180M in eligible costs related to $99M in federal funds. New Jersey Treasury (July 2015 – December 2021) - Grant Thornton was engaged by the NJ Department of Treasury to provide integrity monitoring of the recovery efforts of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission’s (PVSC) $500 million in FEMA funded recovery work and oversee the procurement and contracting compliance of 12 engineering or construction contracts with values greater than $5 million. Grant Thornton’s monitoring effort included a process review of PVSC’s financial, administrative and procurement systems for compliance with FEMA requirements; compliance review of each project’s procurement bid documentation; monitoring and