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SSA's contract #SS00-15-60007 for the Access to Financial Institutions (AFI) project ends on 12/23/2020. SSA intends to establish a new AFI contract effective 12/24/2020 to obtain services that will support the SSI program and waiver determinations by using AFI to verify accounts, account balances, and interest income for applicants, recipients, and/or deemors. The AFI program uses the services of a Contractor to obtain financial account information from financial institutions (FI). The AFI program automates the formerly paper-based Form SSA-4641 verification process with an electronic process to verify financial account balances as well as detect undisclosed accounts. The process is integrated with SSA’s automated SSI Claims Systems, providing electronic SSA-4641 financial account request and response processing between SSA and the Contractor’s system. In addition, a secure website application provides SSA-4641 financial request and response processing for requests that cannot be processed via the MSSICS SSI Systems automated process. The AFI program is currently operating in SSA FOs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and in 10 regional Office of Quality Review (OQR) field