Item 31 - Contract to Grant Thornton Public Sector LLC for American Rescue Plan Act

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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. i November 3, 2021 Sarah Ro, Accounting Manager City of Santa Ana – Finance and Management Services Agency 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, CA 92701 Subject: REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) NO. 21- 093 FOR AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT CONSULTING SERVICES (Revised Scope of Work) Dear Ms. Ro: Thank you for the opportunity to demonstrate how we can support the City of Santa Ana (City) manage funding received from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) by providing comprehensive financial management and advisory services. The City’s Revive Santa Ana Spending Plan outlines a bold program to continue its response to the COVID-19 public health emergency and achieve a holistic and equitable recovery to its effects. Our response will demonstrate proven experience and qualifications assisting communities to effectively manage funding received from the federal government to implement a wide range of projects to recover, restore, and grow vital community services and facilities. Our team is excited for the opportunity to bring the experience, methods, and knowledge we have gained over years of federal fund management, including recent experience managing all the major COVID-19 response and recovery funds (Provider Relief Fund, Coronavirus Relief Fund, FEMA Public Assistance, Homeowner Assistance Fund, and Paycheck Protection Program), to join the City’s team in implementing the Revive Santa Ana Spending Plan. Outside of our grants core competency, we are a management consulting firm with relationships that will flexibly support the City’s needs as they arise. This includes a robust information technology advisory practice, teams working at the Federal level with U.S. Treasury and other Federal program owners. Plan. Our firm has performed hundreds of Single Audits for grant recipients and supports our clients in being ‘audit ready’ when we are not the auditor. We are monitoring for the Fall release of the 2CFR200 Appendix XI Compliance Supplement which will provide detailed audit guidance for ARPA-related programs. In the meantime, we have developed checklists based on the August 2021 audit guidance. We are proposing single audit expertise as part of our team. The Grant Thornton Team has local technical and industry capabilities backed by a global infrastructure and subject matter experts. We have over 250 Grant Thornton partners and professionals in the greater Los Angeles area, we are committed to delivering the City of Santa Ana the right people with various skill sets across Public Sector. The Southern California practice is comprised of offices in Los Angeles, Irvine and San Diego. Our Los Angeles office serves both public and private clients in a variety of industries including state and local government, entertainment, aerospace and defense, high tech, and professional services. On Thursday, October 28, our team participated in an interview with staff from the City’s Finance and Management Service Agency to review and clarify our team’s approach to the revised scope work for Request for Services Number 21-093. As discussed in the interview, our team fully understands, and accepts, the revisions to the scope of work made by the City. To demonstrate our team’s understanding and acceptance of the City’s revisions, we have revised our original response to RFQ 21-093 via a red- line and strikethrough format. In this format, the City will be able to easily identify the changes we have made to our proposal and approach to align to the City’s expectations for professional services.