Memorandum
Date: April 28, 2020
To: The Honorable Moke Simon, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Cathy Saderlund, Auditor-Controller/County Clerk
By: Lisa Casian, Chief Deputy Auditor-Controller
Subject: Approve Agreement Between County of Lake and CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP for Audit Services for Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2020 Amendment #1 and authorize the Chair to sign
Executive Summary: (include fiscal and staffing impact narrative):
On February 21, 2020, a Request for Proposal (RFP) was issued for County audit services and closed on March 20, 2020. On March 19, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom issued State of California Executive Order N-33-20, a Shelter in Place and Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers During COVID-19 Response, and on March 22, 2020, a Major Disaster was declared for California COVID-19 Pandemic (DR-4482). The Audit Committee's proposed schedule to meet was March 23-27, 2020, to evaluate the top firms and interview them on March 30-31, 2020. Under the present circumstances, the County Audit Committee was unable to meet to discuss the proposals received nor interview any audit firms to make a recommendation to your Board.
Background:
The RFP was sent to eighteen (18) firms throughout the State. Of those firms, nine (9) did not respond, two (2) were returned as wrong address, two (2) indicated they were not interested at this time, and five (5) proposals were received. In addition, the RFP was available on the County website from February 21 to March 20, 2020. The responding firms were Eide Bailly in Sacramento, Lance Soll Lunghard LLP in Brea, Harshwal & Company LLP in Oakland, Price Paige & Co in Clovis, and CliftonLarsonAllen LLP located in Roseville.
Evaluation:
A cost comparison of the five proposals (see attached comparison spreadsheet) has an average proposed cost for the first audit year of $72,200, with a low of $66,185 (Harshwal & Co LLP) and high of $80,500 (Price Paige & Co). The firm of CliftonLars...
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