What this opportunity is
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is seeking contractors to provide Portfolio Advisory and Asset Disposition services for the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae). This opportunity is open to all businesses, as there is no set-aside. The work involves analyzing loans, providing market insights, and coordinating the sale of various mortgage-backed securities and loans, making it suitable for firms with expertise in financial analysis and asset management. As this is a Sources Sought notice, interested parties should track the opportunity for potential future solicitations rather than submit bids at this stage.
Analysis by Mindy, grounded in the SAM.gov notice.
Description
Attachment 1 – Statement of Objectives (SOO)
Portfolio Advisory and Asset Disposition Support Services
STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES (SOO)
I. Purpose:
The Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) is seeking qualified
contractor that can provide Portfolio Advisory and Asset Disposition (Sales Transaction)
services to include:
• Analyze and create reports of all loans being serviced by the Master Sub-
Servicers (MSSs).
• An analysis of the overall government Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS),
Whole loan and MSR market.
• Insight into the valuation and marketability of Ginnie Mae’s portfolio’s regarding
hold or sell.
• Develop and enhance GNMA’s portfolio management and competence for best
execution analysis.
• Coordinate the marketing and sale of GNMA’s MBS, whole loan and or MSR
portfolio(s)
• Ginnie Mae loan sale program encompasses the sale of three types of defaulted
loans: Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) and tails, single family
forward notes/other government single family notes, multifamily/healthcare, notes
both pooled and unpooled loans.
II. Scope or Mission:
Ginnie Mae seeks qualified contractors with demonstrated experience to provide
Portfolio Advisory services and potential sale recommendations regarding the market
dynamics affecting each of its Mortgage programs:
• Single Family - FHA, VA, USDA, PIH loans
• Multifamily - FHA and USDA loans
• Reverse - Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) loans
• Pooled - Collection of performing loans (FHA insured)
• Non-Pooled (Whole) - Non-performing and/or non-conforming loans
(unqualified for insurance)
The Portfolio Advisory services will include:
Functional Activities:
• Analysis of sell vs hold and the trading activity and factors affecting valuations
and marketability of the overall government portfolios, whole loan, MBS and
MSR markets.
• Guidance on how to better manage and maximize the value of the Ginnie Mae
owned portfolios.
• Servicing, due diligence and quality control analysis.
• Asset remediation and asset disposition recommendations.
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Attachment 1 – Statement of Objectives (SOO)
Portfolio Advisory and Asset Disposition Support Services
• Analysis of critical variables when marketing the HECM portfolio and potential
disposition process
MSS Portfolio Oversight Support:
• Pooling Advisory Support
• Reverse Loan Servicing
• Default Management
• Loss Mitigation Strategies
• Data Validation
• Claims Management
• Reporting
Data and Workflow support:
• Advisory Workflow Solution: The contractor shall utilize a secured integrated
workflow solution to manage advisory tasks, ensuring end-to-end transparency,
auditability, and real-time status tracking of all portfolio recommendations and
remediation activities.
• Ginnie Mae Data Integration: The contractor workflow solution must possess the
capability to ingest all relevant advisory data, market analysis, and portfolio
metrics into the Ginnie Mae secured repository or an external repository chosen
by Ginnie Mae. This data must be formatted and delivered to support advanced
downstream analytics, automated reporting, and trend analysis.
The Transaction Specialist services will include:
• Competent contractor that is prepared, capable and staffed to perform the
complete range of services expected of an Issuer under the Ginnie Mae MBS
program.
• Contractor shall gather and provide appropriate information to the investor
community about the assets to be sold, ensure that investors are qualified to
purchase, market the offering to maximum number of investors to produce best
pricing to the government, assist with selling and closing the transactions and
conduct post-closing tasks to transfer assets to winning bidders.
• Evaluation of the potential portfolio buyer and investor universe and their
capacity to take on additional portfolios, factoring timing considerations.
• Analysis on how to properly structure or subdivide the portfolio, balancing the
need to maximize proceeds while enabling an acquiring entity to sustain the
portfolio
o Structuring considerations should include trade-off considerations such as
separating certain assets for sale or combining assets to cross-subsidize
• Analysis on ‘Selling as-is”
o How much asset remediation is necessary?
o Determine the need for potential sale subsidies such as indemnifications
and waivers to increase the pull-through rate
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Attachment 1 – Statement of Objectives (SOO)
Portfolio Advisory and Asset Disposition Support Services
• Industry analysis and validation of issuers designated by Ginnie Mae
• Mark-to-Market valuation and accounting analysis, if/when the decision is made
to sell
• Services should include Due Diligence, Transition, Project Management, Loan
Sale Initiatives Services, Loan Settlement/Closing Services, Post sale Settlement
and Support, Breach Coordination and Monitoring, Claims filing, Ad Hoc Task
and Third-Party Reports.
III. Period and Place of Performance.
Period: one (1) 12-month base period with four (4) 12-month option periods
Place: The services shall be performed at Contractor’s site, may require site visit to
MSSs, with sale day performed at HUD HQ.
IV. Background:
Ginnie Mae provides a full faith and credit guarantee to investors, fully backed by the
U.S. government, which makes its MBS program lucrative.
It is imperative that approved Issuers comply with the stipulated requirements to
maintain their approved status:
• Guaranty Agreement (as applicable)
• Ginnie Mae MBS Guide
o Satisfy continuing eligibility requirements per the MBS guide
In a quest to maintain the integrity of the program and manage continuity, issuers are
extinguished from the program when in default. Having terminated issuers, the
defaulted issuer portfolio can either be held by the MSS (master sub-servicer),
servicing them till maturity or they can be disposed of via a sale.
In a bid to determine the optimal asset management and/or disposition strategy for
defaulted issuer portfolio, Portfolio Advisory and…
Source: SAM.gov, as posted. Verify the current solicitation before responding.