MBS Legal Services for Acknowledgement Agreement Reviews and Issuer Liquidity Matters

: MBS Legal Services (Acknowledgement Agreement Reviews and Issuer Liquidity Matters) The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is issuing this Sources Sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support this requirement for providing Legal Services (Acknowledgement Agreement Reviews and Issuer Liquidity) in Support of Ginnie Mae’s Mortgage-Backed Securities Program. The result of this market research will contribute to determining the method of procurement. The applicable North American Industry System (NAICS) code and (PSC) assigned to this procurement are: 541110 – $15.5M; and R418 Support Professional Legal There is no solicitation at this time. This request for capability information does not constitute a request for proposals; submission of any information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary; the government assumes no financial responsibility for any costs incurred. This is not an evaluation of proposals but an assessment of vendors’ capabilities. Therefore, a high-level assessment of the capability statements will be performed. Generic brochures are not being requested. Vendors should provide information to stress their competencies, differentiators, and past performance showing or demonstrating: Core Competencies to demonstrating the following capabilities: Experience providing programmatic Acknowledgement Agreement (AA) work. Have a book of business that will avoid frequent ethical conflicts of interest that would prevent the firm from representing Ginnie Mae on AA work or issuer liquidity matters. Knowledge of residential mortgage-backed securities, structured finance, and tax law. Have a sufficient number of licensed attorneys on staff to provide assistance with 6-10 AAs of varying complexity per month. However, the number of AAs may increase to 15 per month. Brief description of experience providing support for

requirements similar to the requirement in the Draft PWS to include identification of the experience as Federal or Commercial. Differentiator’s listing/discussing unique factors and benefits of the services that set them apart from others. While the government will not respond to any

questions from this RFI, we are interested in any feedback your company has on the overall content/composition of the draft PWS as a result of reviewing the document. If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information:

1) organization name, address, email address, website address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; and

2) tailored capability statements addressing the particulars of this effort, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements. The government will evaluate market information to ascertain potential market capacity to

1) provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated;