OMB "Proud to Be" assessment for Competitive Sourcing

Goals for July 1, 2004
Owner: Angela Styles

Overall: 5% 45% Note: Bullets indicate % of agencies (and/or attainments) that Initiative Owner believes will have achieved the bolded goal by July 2004

People, systems and resources are in place to conduct more than five public/private competitions a year in each agency

  • 50% of all agencies

Average time for competitions drops to 12 months (from 36 months)

  • 75% of all agencies will have completed competitions within an average of 12 months

Complete or initiate competitions on 50% of federal government's commercial activities (appropriate percentage determined for each agency individually)

  • Competitions for 15% of government's commercial activities will have been initiated or completed

Completed competitions improve productivity and produce annual savings

  • $1.5 billion in annual savings from completed competitions will have been realized
  • 60% of all agencies will have demonstrated improved productivity

STRETCH GOAL:

  • If DoD commits to subject an additional 130,000 positions to competition, the civilian agencies will subject additional positions to competition.

Key Milestones - What the Initiative Owner will do:

People, systems and resources are in place to conduct more than five public/private competitions a year in each agency
Q3/2003
  • Modify Scorecard
  • Release new Circular (include congressional, industry and union briefings)
  • Improve agency coordination and training efforts by hiring SES and 1-2 GS for competitive sourcing
  • Conduct OMB Training on new Circular
  • Review and approve agency organizational and implementation plans
  • Track and review agency milestones and performance
Average time for competitions drops to 12 months (from 36 months)
Q3/2003
  • Conduct 4-6 sessions of Government-wide training
  • Government-wide data tracking systems established at DoD (CAMIS) for Government-wide use
  • Formation of new Federal Acquisition Council with working group to share best practices
Q4/2003
  • Migrate civilian agencies to CAMIS data tracking systems
Complete or initiate competitions on 50% of federal government's commercial activities (appropriate percentage determined for each agency individually)
Q4/2003
  • Establish interagency working group to modify commercial function codes
  • Finalize new function codes
Completed competitions improve productivity and produce annual savings
Q3/2003
  • Track and review agency milestones and performance
  • Conduct 4-6 sessions of Government-wide training
  • Government-wide data tracking systems established at DoD (CAMIS) for Government-wide use

What it means to be green

  • Agency has initiated plans to complete competitions on 50% of federal government's commercial activities (appropriate percentage and timing determined for each agency individually).
  • Agency has completed at least 10 standard competitions since January '01.
  • Agency completes 90% of all standard competitions in 12-month timeframe since June '03.
  • Agency completes 95% of all streamlined competitions in 90-day timeframe since June '03.
  • Agency cancels less than 10% of publicly announced standard and streamlined competitions since June '03.
  • Agency consistently identifies commercial and inherently governmental activities.
  • All commercial activities exempt from competition have OMB-approved justifications.

What it means to be yellow

  • Agency has completed the implementation of an OMB approved competition plan for 2002-2003.
  • Agency has completed one standard competition or has publicly announced standard competitions that exceed approved competition plans for 2002-2003.
  • Agency completes 75% of streamlined competitions in 90-day timeframe.
  • Agency cancels less than 20% of publicly announced standard and streamlined competitions.
  • Agency has initiated plans to consistently identify commercial and inherently governmental inventories throughout the agency.