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The Business Opportunities Page (BOP) - The OAM Business Opportunities Page (BOP)
server provides a web-based interactive project board to keep vendors and
contractors apprised of COMMITS GWAC contract activities. The BOP was developed to
enable the Office of Acquisition Management to communicate business opportunities
within the COMMITS GWAC to business partners.
The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) - The BSC measures the performance of the
Department's acquisition community. The BSC automatically extracts quantitative
procurement data from Enterprise Acquisition Reporting System (EARS). The BSC
integrates training metrics from the Acquisition Workforce database. A survey tool
collects the qualitative data. The qualitative and quantitative data is then used
to measure the accomplishments of the operating units within the acquisition
community. The BSC includes several component sub-systems that share the same
platform and application base and provide integrated data into the BSC. These
sub-systems include The Acquisition Workforce database - envisioned as a tool to
assist the Department of Commerce, Acquisition Performance, Policy & Support
Branch and agency managers in collecting and maintaining standard acquisition
workforce information as mandated by Section 37(d) of the Office of Federal
Procurement Policy Act (Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1995 amendments), 41
USC 433(d). The information collected is used to assist managers in making informed
budgeting, staffing, training and employee development decisions, and enable
managers to monitor the availability of staff warrants and specific skill sets.
The Competitive Sourcing database - The President's performance goals and
management initiatives include a requirement to develop "more accurate FAIR Act
inventories" and "expand A-76 competitions." The Competitive Sourcing Database is
intended to extend additional oversight to improve these inventories and assure
competitions are being executed in a timely manner and in accordance with A-76 rules.
The Grants Balanced Scorecard (GBSC) - The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) Office
of Acquisition Management (OAM) has implemented a performance management tool
entitled Balanced ScoreCard System (BSC). The BSC is a multidimensional framework
for describing, implementing and managing activities at all levels of an
organization by linking objectives, initiatives and measures to the organizations
strategy. The scorecard provides an enterprise view of an organization's overall
performance by integrating financial measures with other key performance indicators
related to customer perspectives, internal business processes, and organizational
growth, learning and innovation. The DOC Grants office will develop performance
indicators appropriate to their processes and strategies to incorporate the Grants
operation into the BSC.
The OAM Web Pages - The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) Office of Acquisition
Management (OAM) implemented the OAM Web Pages to support the acquisition community
as business brokers for program success. The OAM Web Pages software application and
data are planned to reside at and operate from a secure government facility, the
Office of the Secretary's Office of Computer Services data center in Springfield,
Virginia.The Commerce STandard Acquisition and Reporting System (CSTARS) - is an
enterprise-wide procurement system providing a standard business process for the
Department of Commerce acquisition workforce. CSTARS is used by all DOC Contracting
Officers and Contract Specialists.
Enterprise Acquisition Reporting System (EARS) -
OAM provides a wide array of
acquisition services and has become the fulcrum for new eCommerce and
eGovernment initiatives in Commerce. To provide effective customer
support, OAM needs information technology that integrates information
among current systems such as Commerce STandard Acquisition and Reporting
System (CSTARS), the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation
(FPDS-NG), the Consolidated Reporting System (CRS), the Balanced Scorecard
System (BSC) and the Federal Assistance Award Data System (FAADS). To
improve service and set the stage for future eGovernment initiatives,
OAM offers its business users a reporting environment through data
warehouse and web technologies. This environment supports interactive query,
analysis, as well as presentation of procurement, contract, accounting,
and other related business activities.
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