The solicitation asks for proposals by October 31; it does not indicate when OPM is targeting such a system to be online. Image: Andrii Yalanskyi/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffOPM has issued a solicitation to consolidate what it calls the current “crazy” assortment of more than 100 human capital management systems across federal agencies, seeking “a single, pan-government core HCM system that gives the federal government full, real-time visibility into its workforce and drives effective workforce management.”
Those systems–which track employee information such job titles, salary information, benefits information, employment history—do not “integrate effectively with each other,” OPM director Scott Kupor said in a posting, with implications for both employees and management.
On the employee side, he wrote, “when a federal employee retires, we at OPM spend an excessive amount of time and money working with multiple agencies’ HR staff to assemble the “golden file” of that employee’s work history. This is costly, error-prone and leads to unnecessary delays in enabling a seamless transition to retirement.
On the management side, the government “lacks a single, government-wide source of truth for any basic employee information – e.g., how many positions actually exist in any organization; what do org charts and managerial spans of control look like across government; how much are we actually paying people by sub-department; etc.,” he wrote.
HR officials meanwhile “have to navigate thickets of outdated and duplicative technology systems, hindering their efficiency and effectiveness, and doubtlessly frustrating them in the process.”
The solicitation asks for proposals by October 31; it does not indicate when OPM is targeting such a system to be online.
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