Cost estimation and financial due diligence services for new and redesigned programs or investments

Objective(s) The Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Canada (DIAND) is seeking the services of a contractor for the provision a variety of financial tasks such as, but not limited to: • Developing and documenting cost estimates or performing financial due diligence reviews of cost estimates for programs or sectors undergoing redesign and/or significant new investments;• Gathering complex performance, process and/or financial data and providing preliminary cost estimates of potential options• Performing risk analysis;• Planning and coordinating financial management activities including financial estimates and business requirements;• Conducting cost benefit analysis; Background DIAND provides support for services on reserves such as education, housing, community infrastructure and social support to Status Indians on reserves. DIAND is also the lead federal department for Northern Development, with a direct role in the political and economic development of the territories and significant responsibilities for resource, land and environmental management. There are constant and varied demands to gather complex performance, process and/or financial data, to develop and document cost estimates cost estimates of potential options and to perform financial due diligence for a wide variety of programs and internal services, ranging from education and social development, infrastructure, lands and economic development, treaties and aboriginal government. These services would be requested on an “as and when required” basis.