What We Do
Forefront is a professional business services company. Our core business function is compliance monitoring. The primary goal of Forefront is to assist your agency in increasing its capacity to effectively monitoring the performance of its contract service providers. As a neutral third party entity, Forefront can provide an objective operational, fiscal and programmatic assessment on the performance of vendors under contract to provide a vital service for your agency. We know that every dollar counts and effective monitoring can assist you in making key management decisions. We can offer you peace of mind monitoring.
Forefront provides audit, monitoring, training and consulting/advisory services and industry insight to help organizations manage risks and perform in the dynamic and challenging environments in which they do business. These services provide clients with effective real-time information that assist clients with making key decisions that impact critical financial, operations, programmatic and public relations issues.
Our Experience
Government and Public Market:
Forefront works with government agencies, not-for-profit organizations, local institutions and community organizations primarily in the southeast, providing a broad range of management consulting, auditing, information technology, and process analysis/integration services.
Private Sector Market:
Forefront also works with private agencies to enhance their long-term competitive advantage. The firm helps clients deal with multiple objectives at the same time delivering timely information that helps them manage risks by developing and implementing clear solutions.
Auditing Solutions
Audit:
Forefront upholds the highest standards of audit integrity. Public trust in the effective funding of public, non-profit and private firms is largely grounded in its confidence in the independent audit of company finances, operations and programming.
Financial Audits:
Our audit approach is based on a consistent methodology developed to comply with National Standards on Auditing. It is built on the basis of core financial principles based on professional integrity, independence and ethical behavior with which all partners and staff must comply.
Program and Operations Audits:
Forefront LLC can provide independent program and operations audit services designed to enhance the reliability of information prepared by clients for use by public, private and non-profit sources, investors, creditors and other stakeholders, including specific statutory requirements.
Compliance Audits:
Forefront LLC’s experience and talented people provides strong compliance capabilities for its clients. The compliance approach and systems utilized by our firm are designed to provide effective tools for preventing and detecting non-compliance and misconduct for our clients.
Energy Audits:
Energy audits provide the opportunity to analyze energy use in a building and the opportunity to understand its energy dynamics. Forefront can provide Energy Auditors that discover opportunities to reduce the amount of energy input into a building without negatively affecting the output(s). In addition, Forefront can provide consultants that are trained in energy auditing for commercial facilities and residential dwellings. Forefront's energy auditors can conduct detailed commercial and residential energy audits that assist its clients in identifying the most prevalent energy wasting areas of a facility or residence. Forefront’s consultants can offer in-depth energy conservation techniques to enable their clients to obtain the maximum in energy savings and insight. To this end, rather than just simply identifying the sources of energy use, it is the goal of Forefront’s energy audits to prioritize the energy uses according to the greatest to the least cost effective opportunities for energy savings for its clients.
Web Design - Development Services
Forefront delivers web design solutions that are on time and within budget. Our web development services combine technology with business concepts that help make your web site easy to use and understand. Our goal is to provide you with what works best on the web and for your business.
Web design and development starts with your ideas from which our team facilitates a website solution that:
- Provides clarity in the message; concise relevant information for visitors
- Is up-to-date with today's usability standards
- Creates captivating images that tell the story even without the words
- Multiple browser and platform compatibility
Learning Solutions
Forefront LLC capabilities can provide web-based training solutions that harness the power of the internet and leverage our expertise in design, development and technology to meet the complete range training requirements for our clients.
Service offerings include:
- Learning 2.0
- Web 2.0
- Rich Internet Applications
- Instructional Design
- Custom Application Development
- Web Based Training
- Instructor-Led Training
- Simulations and Interactive Education-Based Games
Learning Solutions Capabilities
Integrating the full range of consulting capabilities, Forefront LLC is unique from other agencies in that it also assists clients in areas that allow them to meet their company’s goals for effective service delivery in the areas of staff and program development, interagency collaboration and capacity building.
Service offerings include:
- A flexible framework that can emulate business scenarios
- Award winning industry solutions used by 2 Fortune 50 companies
- Precise performance measurement
- Superb metric capabilities that track and create detailed audit trails (for compliance)
- Custom and individualized industry solutions
Custom or Specialized Services
Imbedded Monitoring:
In emergency/crisis situations or to add oversight during the correct action process, Forefront can assign trained and fully licensed staff members to provide on site monitoring in various types of youth and adult facilities for a designated periods of time.
As an objective third party monitor, Forefront staff members can be dispatched to a contractors site for extended periods of time to monitor all phases of service delivery during times of crisis, re-stabilization, experiencing high rates of turnover, as well as monitoring programs on corrective action status.
Customized Monitoring Tools:
Forefront utilizes monitoring tools that are based on contact requirements, governing federal and state regulation/standards, client-specific policy and procedures and evidence based best practices. These tools primarily focus on accountability, managing risks, and outcomes.
Detecting and informing out clients about negative and positive trends, statistics and patterns based on observations made during on site visits. These findings help our clients manage their risks before they become public relations nightmares.
Virtual Monitoring:
Forefront endeavors to exceed its clients' expectations by incorporating automation and enhanced oversight and controls than what exists in the traditional contract monitoring processes as performed by other companies.
Forefront is capable of providing premium value added services coupled with its existing auditing/monitoring capabilities. In an effort to expedite the current reporting and corrective action tracking process, Forefront has designed an automated system to track and monitor the entire audit/monitoring process from scheduling to corrective action planning, corrective action review/approval and follow up. This system is called the Automated Reporting and Corrective Action Tracking system (ARC). This optional system is computer-based and offers increased tracking and time saving web-based solutions for automating the contract monitoring process. » Click to view our Virtual Monitoring Chart
Consulting Services:
Our Consulting professionals help a range of organizations mitigate risk, improve performance and create value. Forefront provides operations, program, risk and financial advisory services that help clients tackle immediate issues and plan for the long term. Forefront offers an wide array of consulting services that include:
- Program Audits and Evaluations
- Background Screening Services
- Staffing
- Training
- Program Development
- Technology
- Legislative Advocacy
- Crisis Management Planning and Response
- Program and Fiscal Management
- Technical Assistance (limited, moderate and on site/long-term)
Forefront can provide a wide array of Consulting Services including:
- Screening
- Staffing
- Training (on site and on line)
- Automated Program Monitoring (incident, emergency drills, staffing, training)
- Technical Assistance
- Management Reviews
- Quality Improvement Initiatives
- Policy and Procedure Development and Implementation
Advisory Services
Our consulting practice is organized around our Audit, Tax and Advisory practices. We aim to respond to the complex business challenges facing our firms' clients. We adopt a global approach spanning professional disciplines, industry sectors and regional borders.
Tax Services
Our tax services are designed to reflect client needs. We can help with the tax implications of various kinds. Forefront works with clients to achieve effective tax compliance, manage tax risks and control their associated costs.
Compliance Monitoring Offerings:
Forefront provides on site monitoring on a schedule that fits your contractual and statutory compliance requirements and budget. Forefront’s on site compliance monitoring services are conducted on pre-determined schedule or can be executed randomly. The frequency and depth of each monitoring is based on assessed risk and identified deficiencies. Forefronts’ on site services can be completed as follows:
- Single day
- 1 week
- 2 weeks
- 1 month
- 3 visits per yr
- 4 (Quarterly)
- 6 visits per yr (Bi-Monthly)
- 12 visits per yr (Monthly)