The Office of Personnel Management has announced five
shared service provider-agencies for its HR line of
business, which provides business and technology
solutions for a number of agencies.
The effort — with estimated savings of more a billion
dollars over ten years — will provide interoperable HR
solutions with common core functionality to support the
strategic management of human capital, said OPM.
The Departments of Agriculture – through its National
Finance Center – Defense, Health and Human Services,
Interior – through its National Business Center – and
Treasury were selected.
It said common solutions would enable departments and
agencies to work more effectively, and that commercial
service centers would eventually be added to federal
ones.
The Office of Management and Budget had initiated the
move to the LOB phase of e-government by setting up a
task force for five LOB’s together with individual
LOB managing partners — with OPM acting as the managing
partner for HR.
The agency then put together an inter-agency task force
to identify a common solution, develop a target
architecture, and draft a business case for the HR LOB
– resulting in a phased approach to delivering a range
of back office services through shared service centers,
OPM said.
