BANKING-9275 - USA (Baltimore, Maryland) - Global Custody Services - Deadline September 25,2026

(1) Vendor needs to provide global custody services to the government authority located in Baltimore, MD. – The services will include, settlement, safekeeping, delivery, investment accounting and income collection, securities valuation, investment performance reporting, compliance reporting, short–term cash investments, and other services in connection with these investments.– Provide global master custody services relating to the investments and assets separately managed by the agency.• Accounting and auditing: Make available trade date multi–currency accounting for all securities and full accrual accounting for all assets.• Trade settlement and custody: Act as central depository and nominee holder of the assets of the system domestically and internationally and as a transaction–clearing agent for those assets, providing for the safe custody and physical security of all assets of the system held or controlled by the contractor.• Cash management: Provide an automated daily sweep of net cash flows, by account, to contractor’s short–term investment fund (STIF) or external money market funds, as directed by the system.• Reporting requirements: Complete monthly reconciled accounting statements on a mutually agreed staggered schedule to be completed no later than the eighth business day of the month (for the prior month’s reporting cycle).• Corporate actions, class actions and proxy voting: The contractor shall, upon the settlement or other resolution of any class action litigation matter in which the system has an interest, timely file documents and take other steps necessary to collect monies due the system from such litigation and protect the system’s interests.• Performance measurement and analytics: Provide monthly performance reports in the format required by the agency detailing the market values, cash flows and returns (net and gross) of each portfolio, including both custodied and non–custodied assets as well as any consolidations deemed necessary by the agency at gross, net of management fees, and net of all fees using GIPS compliant calculation methodology.• Compliance monitoring and reporting: Provide the agency with an investment compliance reporting service that will identify, and provide notification of, investment trades that are outside established policies, tolerances and parameters based on available holdings and transaction data.• Technology/system requirements: Provide on–line access to an information delivery platform for purposes of downloading reports and extracted data for analysis using software products such as Excel, as well as “inquiry only” access by various internal and external users as authorized by the Agencypursuant to an agency–approved written statement.• Audits: Provide annual financial statements audited by an independent certified public accounting firm in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.• Personnel, meetings, client conference, notices: Provide direct access to appropriate technical staff for assistance with computer system problemss.(2) All the questions must be submitted no later than September 4, 2026. (3) The contract period will be for five years.