Federal Manager's Daily Report

A recent memo from the President’s Management Council

outlines the criteria that the Office of Management and

Budget will use to rate agencies on competitive sourcing.

In general, such long-rage competition plans should show

how agencies apply public-private competition to their

missions and workforce needs, and they should reflect

agency human capital plans, according to the memo.

It said competition plans should: explain the general

processes agencies use to determine which commercial

activities are competed; identify the activities that

agencies are planning to announce for competition in fiscal

2004 (or other period negotiated with OMB); and identify

the most significant factors (up to three) that limit

agencies from giving greater consideration to competitive

sourcing than is reflected in the plans.

Once having developed an OMB-approved green plan, agencies

are required to update the plan by August 1 each year and

will have to explain any changes to those plans as part of

their quarterly scorecard reviews with OMB regarding the

President’s Management Agenda, the memo said.