SWIB encourages those who are interested to participate in SWIB’s contract and procurement process for services or products needed.
Business Opportunities with SWIB
Investment Manager Selection
SWIB utilizes consultants for investment manager search processes. External fund managers interested in being considered for an opportunity to work with SWIB in the areas of hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and public markets (public equities and fixed income) should submit detailed information regarding their firm to SWIB’s consultants.
Minority Broker Program
Firms interested in doing business with SWIB may contact info@swib.state.wi.us. To be eligible, a firm must be certified by the Department of Administration as a minority owned business enterprise (MBE) in Wisconsin. Firms should disclose their capital amount and submit general and financial information about their firm including a list of existing institutional clients, backing by a reputable securities clearing firm, and proof of FIX protocol connectivity.
Contracts & Procurement with SWIB
For questions regarding these solicitation opportunities, please email procurement@swib.state.wi.us.
Request for Proposals
Treasury & Securities Financing Platform
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (“SWIB”) is issuing a Request for Proposals (“RFP”) to solicit proposals from qualified vendors to provide a Treasury & Securities Financing Platform (the “Platform”). The objective of this RFP is to procure a scalable, purpose-built platform to support SWIB’s Treasury and Securities Financing activities, including but not limited to computation of financing economics, workflow automation, margin and capital attribution, repurchase agreement lifecycle processing, counterparty risk monitoring, and robust reporting.
All information pertaining to this project can be found by visiting this link: https://swib.bonfirehub.com/opportunities/233863
Rhiannon Friedel, SWIB’s Senior Procurement Specialist, is the contact for all questions relating to this project: email – procurement@swib.state.wi.us
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Consultancy Pool Opportunities
SWIB is currently soliciting responses to the following Consultancy Questionnaires, with the intention to create a list of pre-qualified vendors available to provide ad-hoc contractor services for short-term staff augmentation opportunities. Information pertaining to each project can be found on the respective sites below:
Information Technology Consultancy Questionnaire
Focused on information technology tied to investment related services including, but not limited to securities trading, investment accounting, investment risk management, and portfolio management.
Investment Operations Consultancy Questionnaire
Focused on investment operations including, but not limited to fund accounting, performance and benchmarking, data governance and stewardship, and business resumption.
Information Security Consultancy Questionnaire
Focused on information security including, but not limited to architecture and design, cloud, network and endpoint, identity and access management, application, incident response, threat hunting, risk, and vulnerability management.