The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has had a busy week. Coming almost on the heels of their release of DU204SB-16-R-0003, the Management and Marketing (M&M) Field Service Manager (FSM) pre Request For Proposal (RFP). The FSM Bids will cover the following ten (10) geographic areas: 3A (Illinois), 4A (Indiana and Kentucky), 5A (North and South Carolina), 6A (Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama), 7A (Georgia), 8A (Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands), 3S (Arizona), 4S (Nevada and Idaho), 5S (California, Hawaii, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands), and 6S (Oregon, Washington, and Alaska).
The solicitation will be evaluated in accordance with FAR Part 15.101-2, Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) procedures. This has a few folks concerned — the question, is whether the concern is based upon self preservation or not.
The reality is that for nearly a year now, HUD has been actively engaging the small business community by and through answering a series of questions from both the media and the business community. I have been covering the Mortgage Field Services Industry for quite some time and this is actually the first time I have seen any major scale interest in how the M&M FSM has been run to date. A HUD Official had this to say with respect to the potential award process,
Personally, I’d like to see more of the smaller end servicers band together and team to get the volumes/coverage areas nailed down. I’d also like to try and provide incentive for firms that are already established in a particular area/HOC jurisdiction, rather than constantly introducing new businesses to areas that they’re not currently established.
The problem, though, is that HUD currently possesses an inordinate amount of documentation pertaining to millions of dollars of fraud committed against HUD and US Taxpayers and appear afraid to act upon them. Over the past several days, three more whistleblowers have received the token lip service from HUD; however, HUD OIG has refused to even follow up with they. This calls into question the very integrity of folks like Kevin Simpson, HUDs lawyer whom threatened and intimidated Foreclosurepedia several years ago for bringing forward an article which had shown how Talking Points had been issued to defend award to BLB Resources before the M&M FSM had ever been issued.
We have referred over information from former CWIS personnel which tends to document well over One and a Half Million Dollars worth of fraud pertaining to the termite inspections. As everyone remembers well, Innotion Enterprises had a HUD Office of the Inspector General (OIG) investigation in 2012 pertaining to nearly an identical issue. We now know that a plethora of questionable General Work Orders were spun up with allegations that kick backs were as common as Carter taking liver pills.
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For quite some time, Foreclosurepedia has been tracking how virtually each and every HUD Prime Vendor, to date, has had the pattern and practice of sharing C Numbers issued for the HUD P260 system. The abuse of the C Number system by Five Brothers and CWIS is epic. We are also seeing a tremendous amount of General Work Orders being used to ferry, “…over allowable funds from HUD to CWIS with percentages kicked back to CWIS Florida personnel,” as one former CWIS employee phrased it to Foreclosurepedia and HUD during an exclusive debriefing.
And how about the old haunts in Levittown? How about how the new name is the same as the old game? Because make no mistake whatsoever, it is business as usual. It is All the Usual Suspects raking in their millions of dollars while bullshitting Labor. It’s the Three Bid Monte and no one does it better than AMS!
I have news for Levittown and the rest of the Fab 5. Foreclosurepedia is crashing the party. The National Association of Mortgage Field Services (NAMFS) is the disease and we are the cure. NAMFS is like a bad case of the clap in a dusty, bordertown whorehouse and Foreclosurepedia is the cleansing effects of transparency as a cure. The pattern and practice of defrauding the US Government, through False Claims, has been a long tradition by National Association of Mortgage Field Services (NAMFS) Offender Members. Spearheaded by Eric Miller, the NAMFS Executive Director whom is paid over ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR CONSUMING OVER SEVENTY PERCENT OF ALL NAMFS MEMBER DUES, the NAMFS #FraudFest 2016 is off to a great start already!
Later today, Foreclosurepedia releases the HUD 3.10 Performance Work Statement and sits down during the Foreclosurepedia Podcast to discuss how it is going to play out under LPTA standards. And if you thought that the Service Contract Act was not going to be in play; if you thought that Utah, Colorado, Indiana and Florida were going to rule from afar, you have another thing coming! You don’t want to miss it!
