Here is a great quote straight out of the OPM budget of 2013. -----------------------------------------------------------------
Human Resources Line of Business (HR LOB) The Human Resources Line of Business (HR LOB) leads the government-wide transformation of HR Information Technology by focusing on modernization, integration, and performance assessment. The HR LOB is a model for its cross-agency collaboration which achieves HR service delivery improvements and cost savings results. ----------------------------------------------------------------- I guess being the model for cross-agency collaboration means providing all of the employee data any Chinese agency wants :) Steven Naslund Chicago IL >>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.
