Provide Accounting Services (Request For Qualification)

Essex County

Provide various auditing services.

Essex County

Provide financial advisory services. The services to be provided are all those professional services customarily provided by a financial advisor to a governmental entity of a size and scope commensurate with that of the county and shall include advice and assistance with respect to debt financing and other financial issues contemplated by the county including: (a) assistance in determining the amount, size and timing of borrowings contemplated by the county for its own capital program and as a conduit for other borrowings; (b) assistance in formulating the credit structure, maturity schedule, call provisions and other terms and conditions of debt offerings, as required for any other offering; (c) assistance in deciding whether each issue can and/or should be sold on a negotiated, competitive, or private placement basis; (d) preparation of necessary legal documents concerning debt transactions; (e) examination of various debt financing alternatives, including variable rate debt, interest rate swaps and other derivative products (if and when they become feasible under state statute); (f) preparation of official statements including ongoing updating of demographic data and financial statistics included therein; (g) preparation of local finance board applications for financing and presentation of such applications to the board; (h) preparation and presentation of timely and adequate information on proposed financing to the bond rating agencies to obtain the most favorable rating for each financing; to include assistance in maintaining a regular relationship between the county and the rating agencies for purposes of improving the process of obtaining ratings. See attached file.

Essex County

Provide bond counsel services. The services to be provided are all those customarily provided by a bond counsel to a governmental entity of a size and scope commensurate to that of the county and shall include advice and assistance with respect to debt financing and other financial issues contemplated by the county including: (a) assistance in determining the amount, size and timing of borrowings contemplated by the county for its own capital program and as a conduit for other borrowings; (b) assistance in formulating the credit structure, maturity schedule, call provisions and other terms and conditions of debt offerings, as required for any other offering; (c) assistance in deciding whether each issue can and/or should be sold on a negotiated, competitive, or private placement basis; (d) preparation of necessary legal documents concerning debt transactions; (e) examination of various debt financing alternatives, including variable rate debt, interest rate swaps and other derivative products (if and when they become feasible under state statute); (f) assistance in the preparation of official statements including review of demographic data and financial statistics included therein; (g) preparation of local finance board applications for financing and presentation of such applications to the board; (h) assistance in the preparation and presentation of timely and adequate information on proposed financings to the bond rating agencies to obtain the most favorable rating for each financing; to include assistance in maintaining a regular relationship between the county and the rating agencies for purposes of improving the process of obtaining ratings. See attached file.