On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Naslund, Steve <snasl...@medline.com> wrote: > There is an O&M budget created for the day to day operation and maintenance > of IT systems. This is approved along with your department's budget > annually. If you classify updating equipment as an O&M function (which it > routinely is) then you have no issues. You purchase your equipment off > pre-existing purchasing agreements in place with your agency or the GSA. If > your purchases exceeds certain threshold or the amount available under your > O&M funding, then you need to go out and negotiate a project and contract it > out. Trust me I know how this works, I was also a contracting inspector for > communications systems during my time with the US Air Force.
I'm fairly certain that new IDS purchases, for an org as large as OPM, which would also include project-term Support contracts, isn't going to fit into any pre-approved O&M day to day budget... other than maybe an AF budget :-) -Jim P.
