Are consultants, hired per diem, permitted to work on an audit?
No. The RFP explicitly prohibits subcontractors. 23. Are we allowed to hire a consultant as an employee for work? Not a contractor, but someone working on this project as an employee-but with specific skills for this project. The people working on the project are required to be employees of the entity that submits the RFP. We consider the term “employee” to have the meaning established by federal tax law. We are seeking a contractor that has an existing team of employees with the experience required to perform the audits outlined in the RFP. Generally speaking, a consultant is not an employee under federal tax law. If the applicant firm is only hiring an employee with a specific set of skills (to do the work required by this RFP) upon the award of this contract, and the firm is unable to demonstrate that other current employees have the requisite experience, then the firm is unlikely to meet all of the qualifications stated in the RFP.
