Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Treasurer and Receiver General (“Treasury”), requests responses from qualified bidders interested in providing custody and safekeeping services for deposits of cash and securities for the Treasury’s Unclaimed Property Division. The Unclaimed Property Division seeks a qualified bidder to hold stocks, bonds and other securities for guaranteed safekeeping. As part of this task, the custodian will settle all transactions either by physical transfer of securities or by electronic transfer through a central depository. The custodian will be required to have proper safeguards in place to protect the possession of all physical securities, the integrity of electronic holdings and the confidentiality of the information relating to the positions held by the Unclaimed Property Division.