Contract Award: Ernst & Young LLP (New York, New York (HT001121F0085) – $18,933,139

Ernst & Young LLP, New York, New York (HT001121F0085), is awarded an $18,933,139 one-year bridge task order to continue the audit sustainment, audit response, remediation of notices of findings and recommendation, internal control oversight and management, financial reporting compilation and analysis, and continuous risk management and internal control training and program services of the previously awarded firm-fixed-price task order (HT001116F0014). Work will be performed at Defense Health Headquarters, Falls Church, Virginia; Defense Health Agency – Contract Resource Management, Aurora, Colorado; U.S. Army Medical Command, San Antonio, Texas; National Capital Region Market; and the Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, beginning Sept. 8, 2021. This task order was not competitively procured and was prepared under the authority of the multiple award schedule program, 41 U.S. Code 152(3) and 40 U.S. Code 501, and regulatory authority, as implemented by Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation 8.405-6(a)(1)(i)(C). The new work is a logical follow-on to a Federal Supply Schedule order, placed in accordance with Federal Supply Schedule ordering procedures and fully executed on Sept. 3, 2021, under Task Order HT001121F0085 with a period of performance of Sept. 8, 2021, through Sept. 7, 2022. Operation and maintenance funds for $18,933,139 are obligated for fiscal 2021. The Defense Health Agency, Professional Services Contracting Division, Falls Church, Virginia, is the contracting activity.