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.