July 11, 2019 (Washington, D.C.) – Summit Consulting (Summit), along with its analytics partner Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, announced today their latest win: a $50 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Award for Transformation Support Services with the U.S. Department of Education (ED).
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In February 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published a new Summit’s report: “An Analysis of Benefit Plan Auditors.”
This report presents findings from a trend analysis of CPA selection and switching behavior over time through examination of Form 5500 filing data and audit reviews conducted by EBSA between Plan Years 2011 and 2015.
Evidence suggests that the population of CPAs is changing and that the more benefit plan audits a CPA firm performs, the more likely that auditor is to stay in the market. These findings may benefit plan CPA population may be helpful for informing future outreach, monitoring, and research efforts by EBSA.
October 2018 (Washington, D.C.) – Summit Consulting (Summit) is proud to announce our latest win: a five-year Administrative Data Research and Analysis (ADRA) Project with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office (CEO). The purpose of this contract is to analyze administrative datasets from various agencies within DOL to answer programmatic research questions. This will be Summit’s third iteration of the ADRA contract to support CEO and other DOL agencies. This new ADRA projectallows Summit to continue using data analytics to help DOL support workers, job seekers, and retirees. Previously published reports under this contract, as well as other projects funded by DOL CEO, can be found on DOL CEO’s website https://www.dol.gov/asp/evaluation/CompletedStudies.htm .
With this award, we bring a new partner to complement our team’s strong analytical skillset. Mathematica Policy Research (Mathematica), who also previously held its own ADRA contract, bolsters our team with seasoned staff from its Employment Research practice https://www.mathematica-mpr.com/our-focus-areas/employment.
Summit’s health and employment director, Oswaldo Urdapilleta, Ph.D., states,“We are honored that CEO continues to trust our team with projects that answer the challenging research questions posed by agencies using their existing administrative data. We look forward to using our partnership with Mathematica to solve new data challenges and continue to contribute to the evidence-based culture that CEO has fostered within the Department.” Manager Heather Brotsos adds, “We look forward to applying our deep and broad knowledge of DOL’s administrative datasets to answer new questions and inform critical policy decisions.”
October 2018 (Washington, DC) – Summit’s mission-oriented finance team will attend the 2018 Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) Conference October 8-11 in Chicago, IL. OFN is a coalition of mission-oriented lenders who gather to discuss best practices and innovative techniques. They work hard to improve the lives of the poorest Americans by lending where conventional lenders are reluctant to invest.
October 2018 (Washington, D.C.) – Summit Consulting (Summit) is proud to announce another new win: a GSA-USDA Business Modernization Office (BMO) Centers of Excellence (CoE) opportunity worth $4.2M over two years. Summit (prime) will partner with Grant Thornton.
October 2018 (Washington, DC) – Summit Consulting (Summit) is proud to announce that it has won an additional task order for the CDFI Fund Bond Guarantee Program (BGP). With this task order, Summit will continue to support portfolio monitoring and credit risk management efforts. Our team will also continue development of previously delivered analytical tools, which are used by every business unit in the BGP.
October 2018 (Washington, D.C.) – Summit Consulting (Summit) is proud to announce our latest win: a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to provide financial support services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) with our teaming partner Grant Thornton.
September 2018 (Washington, D.C.) – Summit Consulting (Summit) is proud to announce their selection into three different contract channels at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Quantitative Research Analytical Data Support (QRADS) initiatives. With our partner DAS, Summit will support SEC in conducting external research, developing analytical tools, and designing reports and analytics.
September 2018 (Washington, D.C.) – Summit Consulting (Summit) is proud to announce our latest win: a five-year blanket purchase agreement to conduct program evaluation services for the Small Business Administration Office of Performance Management (SBA OPM). This contract will allow Summit to support SBA in its goal of becoming a more effective and efficient organization.