Audit Services

The vendor is required to provide auditor(s) shall use the appropriate instrument as developed by the department for adult prisons and jails, or community confinement facilities to measure compliance with national standards to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse in confinement settings.
- Review all relevant agency-wide policies, procedures, reports, internal and external audits, and accreditation for each facility type.
- Review, at a minimum, a sampling of relevant documents and other records and information for the most recent one (1) year period.
- Have access to, and shall observe, all areas of the audited facilities.
- Submit a request for any relevant documents (including electronically and information).
- Retain and preserve all documentation including e.g. video interview notes relied upon making audit determinations. 
- Such documentation shall be provided to the department of justice upon request.
- Interview a representative sample of offenders, residents, and detainees, and staff, supervisors, and administrators.
- Review a sampling of any available videotapes and other electronically available data that may be relevant to the provisions being audited.
- Conduct private interviews with offenders, residents, and detainees.
- Attempt to communicate with community based or victim advocates who may have insight into relevant conditions in the facility.
- Ensure that reports submitted to the agency are well written, documented in a manner that clearly explains how the agency complies with national standards, and accurate.
- Abide by the requirements in the Act auditor handbook and the auditor certification agreement.
- Provide a draft report to the agency before submission in online auditing system (OAS) to ensure accuracy.
- Remain professional, respectful, and be willing to be a collaborative partner with the agency.
- Affirm that they are a party to the contract that underlies each audit and attach the required documents to the Act audit assignment system.
- Sign individual agreements for each facility audited in accordance with the audit contract requirements.
- Provide a final or interim report within 45-days post onsite audits.
- Audit reports shall describe the methodology, sampling sizes, and basis for the auditor’s conclusions with regard to each standard provision for each audited facility, and shall include recommendations for corrective action.

- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: July 29, 2025