 In order to succeed in the future and achieve the goals of both the Department and the NBC, it is The National Business Center (NBC) is upgrading our support for Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) reporting through the implementation of a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) package, Visual Powerfiles for EEO (VPEEO) from TechSolutions. This solution meets all of our business requirements of providing an easy-to-use and powerful reporting environment for the Civil Rights/EEO community, including supporting the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Management Directive 715 (MD-715). TechSolutions is a dedicated EEO company, keeping up with all EEO regulations and requirements and providing a high level of understanding of EEO best practices. The NBC is excited about bringing this opportunity to our Federal Personnel Payroll System (FPPS) clients. This solution was presented and demonstrated to the FPPS User Group on September 28, 2005 and again in an open forum on October 14, 2005. The NBC expects to continue to have conversations with the Civil Rights/EEO community concerning this reporting capability.
This system enables the EEO community to be self-sufficient in their reporting needs, reducing the burden that has typically been carried by the Human Resources community. This solution will replace the Equal Employment Opportunity Reporting (EEOR) Subsystem and EEOR-specific reports within the NBC Datamart. Agencies that choose not to participate in VPEEO can continue to produce EEO reports using the EEO views of the employee snap-shot data and SF-50 Personnel Transactions within the NBC Datamart.
TechSolutions is working closely with the NBC to host VPEEO within the NBC Datamart infrastructure. This re-use of this established, known, secure environment enables the FPPS community to control costs and speed time to production. The alternative of each agency separately purchasing, installing, and maintaining the application saves the government thousands of dollars, months of development time, and ensures a higher level of security of this sensitive data. The NBC will re-apply the FPPS and all required Information Technology security, ensuring consistency of this security across these applications.
This type of cooperation between government and private enterprise is consistent with Office of Personnel Management and Office of Management and Budget guidance. It is an exciting opportunity for the NBC to bring best business practices, supported by an easy-to-use system, to our community.
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