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Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. Operating in hundreds of locations across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting, to systems integration and managed IT and business process services, to intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network to help clients achieve their goals, including becoming customer-centric digital enterprises.

Cotton & Company LLP is a certified public accounting partnership licensed and in good standing with the Commonwealth of Virginia and many other states and is qualified to practice in all other jurisdictions. Our practice specialty is the business of government. Since our founding, Cotton & Company has focused its practice on providing services predominantly for governmental agencies and programs. Many clients are repeat clients, which is evidence of our record of outstanding and timely performance and our sustained ability to exceed client expectations. For more information, visit www.cottoncpa.com. 

From strategy to execution, the Government & Public Sector (GPS) practice of Ernst & Young LLP provides a full range of consulting and audit services to help our federal, state and local clients implement new ideas to achieve their mission outcomes. We have experience in delivering real change and measurable results through our diverse, high-performing teams, quality work at the | highest professional standards, operational know-how from across our global organization, and creative and bold ideas tailored to each client’s unique mission. We help support our GPS clients in protecting our nation and serving our people; increasing public safety; improving health care for our military, our veterans and our citizens; delivering essential public services; and helping those in need. In doing so, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients, for our government and for our communities.

Guidehouse provides management, technology, and risk consulting to clients around the world through more than 1,600 professionals in over 20 locations.  At our core, we focus on building trust in society, solving important problems, and having a seat at the table for our clients’ most pressing matters. Formerly part of PwC, Guidehouse provides the exceptional quality our clients demand with the agility and innovation to go beyond the expected. We invite you to learn more at guidehouse.com.

Kearney & Company is the premier CPA firm focused exclusively on the Federal Government, providing services across the financial management spectrum. Kearney has helped the Federal Government improve its financial operations’ overall effectiveness; increase its level of accountability and compliance with laws, regulations, and guidance; and protect its funds from fraud, waste, and abuse. Visit us at www.kearneyco.com.

Our more than 1,400 dedicated partners and professionals possess the knowledge, insight, and awareness of pertinent legislation and regulatory implications needed to address the special needs of the public sector. We are also the leading provider of financial audits to the cabinet-level agencies in the federal government. Further, our partners play a critical role, participating on standards-setting boards, supporting industry associations, and actively contributing their time and efforts in the continued support of advanced, professional standards in our industry. Equal in size to our Government Audit practice, our Government Advisory team brings leading practices and recommendations to government entities wherever they are in their efforts to reach high performance in financial management. Our Advisory professionals also provide a broad array of services to help the government enterprise or program or function establish sustainable improvement to performance, operations and quality of service. These include: regulatory and compliance support, contract/sub-recipient monitoring, quality assurance/independent verification and validation, business intelligence, IT governance, strategic planning, and policy support, forensic technology services and more.

KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm (www.us.kpmg.com), is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”). KPMG International's member firms have 137,000 professionals, including more than 7,600 partners, in 144 countries.

OneStream Software is an independent corporate performance management (CPM) software company backed by private equity investor KKR. Our primary mission is to deliver 100% customer success. We will continually listen to the changing needs of our customers to determine the direction of our platform, service and support. We will never compromise on quality or their success. Our vision is a world where finance departments leverage modern software applications that unify and streamline CPM processes across the enterprise, minimize system maintenance, and allow them to get back to business - and life.

The MIL Corporation is committed to your mission and vision. MIL provides experts dedicated to improving financial systems & business processes throughout the federal government. We offer a wide variety of financial, intelligent automation, and IT services to our customers to keep systems running efficiently and effectively. We invite you to learn more by visiting www.milcorp.com.

To meet the unique needs of federal agencies, CohnReznick’s Federal Market practice solves some of the most complex audit, accounting, risk, internal controls, compliance and financial management challenges. The team specializes in delivering world class commercial best practices to public sector stakeholders to help solve their most important and mission-critical challenges, address stringent regulatory requirements, maximize efficiencies, minimize risk, and make the best use of taxpayer funds.

Grant Thornton is one of the world’s leading organizations of independent audit, tax and advisory firms. These firms help dynamic organizations unlock their potential for growth by providing meaningful, forward-looking advice. Proactive teams, led by approachable partners in these firms, use insights, experience and instinct to understand complex issues faced by privately owned, publicly listed and public sector clients and help them to find solutions. Over 35,000 Grant Thornton professionals in more than 100 countries are focused on making a difference to clients, colleagues and the communities in which we live and work.

Infor builds beautiful business applications with last mile functionality and scientific insights for select industries delivered as a cloud service, on premises, or both. With 15,000 employees and over 90,000 customers in more than 170 countries, Infor is a leading provider of software applications. Infor delivers a comprehensive suite of integrated, industry-specific solutions, including purpose-built for the public sector. To learn more about Infor, please visit www.infor.com/ www.infor.com/publicsector

J.P. Morgan’s Wholesale Payments business has decades of experience working alongside government financial professionals as well as healthcare institutions to address the industry’s most pressing challenges—including reducing payments fraud, increasing visibility across all cash operations, managing and preparing for volatility, optimizing ad hoc payments and enhancing the customer experience through digital-first payments solutions. By combining the firm’s treasury services, trade, card and merchant services capabilities, we enable clients, their partners and their customers to pay anyone, in any currency, anywhere in the world. Focused on helping clients navigate changing environments, digital transformation and evolving customer expectations, J.P. Morgan processes over $6 trillion payments daily, is the world’s top USD clearer and was the first bank to offer real-time payments across USD, GBP and EUR.

With annual technology investment consistently above $10 billion, J.P. Morgan has a history of innovating at scale, bringing agility and a co-creation mindset to the solutions we offer. By thinking digital first, our capabilities are designed for ease-of-use. We prioritize the client experience in everything we do, underpinned by robust cybersecurity and controls, to deliver a unified service on globally consistent platforms, wherever our clients operate.

For more information go to: www.jpmorgan.com/solutions/treasury-payments/payments-and-cross-currency-solutions/public-sector

RMA Associates is an SBA Certified 8(a) Small Business CPA and Consulting firm which provides Federal Governmentfocused audit, consulting, and advisory services. We specialize in providing personalized services to our clients to help them achieve their mission and operate more efficiently.

2ndWave LLC provides proven, credentialed, and disciplined consulting and program management guidance to help our clients tackle tough problems. We have built a team of experienced federal financial management and IT professionals, most with CPA, CGFM and/or PMP certifications and experience at Big Four consultancies. Unlike most technology firms, we provide both functional (accounting, grants management) and technical subject matter experts to address complex client challenges. As an 8(a) minority-owned and Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), 2ndWave LLC is eligible for certain small business procurements and can help government agencies and systems integration partners reach set-aside goals.

CLA exists to create opportunities — for our clients, our people, and our communities. We do it by living the CLA Promise: We promise to know you and help you. We are dedicated to building an inclusive culture that thrives on different beliefs and perspectives. By welcoming and respecting our clients and each other, we can all experience success. CLA delivers integrated wealth advisory, outsourcing, audit, tax, and consulting services to help clients succeed professionally and personally. Grounded in public accounting, our broad professional services allow us to serve clients more completely and offer our people diverse career opportunities. For more information visit https://www.claconnect.com/.

TFC Consulting is a rapidly growing CPA firm. TFC offers accounting, finance, auditing, financial reporting, financial management, project management, budgeting, analysis, and financial IT systems services to Federal governmental agencies. We have served the Federal financial community for over a decade, providing exceptional quality in the delivery of financial management consulting. TFC offers a fast-paced, collaborative learning environment and competitive salary, benefits, and training.

As one of the largest U.S. public accounting firms, Crowe has been serving the needs of government for more than 40 years. Our national network of professionals includes former employees and elected and appointed officials, giving Crowe a firsthand perspective on the issue’s government leaders face as well as proven solutions that deliver real and lasting impact. Our team members draw on cross-functional knowledge and skills -- accounting, audit, risk, finance, and performance. We have served the full spectrum of government organizations, including federal agencies and state agencies.

Watkins Government Services LLC (WGS) is a woman owned small business consulting firm

in metropolitan Washington, DC that serves the government sector; delivering financial

management, grants management and business process re-engineering services to federal, state and local agencies.