Federal agencies have compiled “competition plans” that could put around 103,000 jobs up for possible conversion to contractor performance, according to a new Office of Management and Budget tally. The report notes that OMB earlier this year dropped its plan to require agencies to study certain percentages of those jobs according to a time frame in favor of an arrangement in which agencies are graded according to how well they are pursuing “competitive sourcing.” The competition plans do not carry specific timetables, although progress in actually considering jobs for private sector performance is part of how OMB will rate agencies. The Defense Department listed the most jobs in its plan, nearly 68,000; most other departments and large agencies listed several thousand each (the statistics don’t include the Department of Homeland Security). The 103,000 figure is about an eighth of the roughly 850,000 jobs considered as potential candidates for contracting-out review government-wide, although some of that overall total is exempt from competition for various reasons.