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VII. EVALUATION PROCEDURES <br />A. Review of Proposal <br />The City of Orono reserves the right to retain all proposals submitted and use any idea in a <br />proposal regardless of whether that proposal is selected. <br />B. Evaluation Criteria <br />Proposals will be evaluated using three sets of criteria. Firms meeting the mandatory criteria <br />will have their proposals evaluated for both technical qualifications and price. The following <br />represent the principal selection criteria which will be considered during the evaluation <br />process. <br />1. Mandatory Elements <br />a) The audit firm is independent and licensed to practice in Minnesota. <br />b) The firm has no conflict of interest with regard to any other work performed <br />by the firm for the City. <br />c) The firm adheres to the instructions in this request for proposal for preparing <br />and submitting the proposal. <br />d) The firm submits a copy of its last external quality control review report and <br />the firm has a record of quality audit work. <br />2. Technical Quality <br />a) Expertise and Experience <br />1) The firm's past experience and performance on comparable <br />government engagements. <br />2) The quality of the firm's professional personnel to be assigned to the <br />engagement and the quality of the firm's management support <br />personnel to be available for technical consultation. <br />3) The firm's expertise with the GFOA Certificate of Excellence in <br />Financial Reporting. <br />b) Audit Approach <br />1) Adequacy of proposed staffing plan for various segments of the <br />engagement. <br />2) Adequacy of sampling techniques. <br />3) Adequacy of analytical procedures. <br />171Page <br />184 <br />