OPM Data Breach - Whitehouse Petition - Help Wanted

Fri Jun 19 16:23:10 UTC 2015

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Naslund, Steve <SNaslund at medline.com> wrote:
> There is an O&M budget created for the day to day operation and maintenance of IT systems.  This is approved along with your department's budget annually.  If you classify updating equipment as an O&M function (which it routinely is) then you have no issues.  You purchase your equipment off pre-existing purchasing agreements in place with your agency or the GSA.  If your purchases exceeds certain threshold or the amount available under your O&M funding, then you need to go out and negotiate a project and contract it out.  Trust me I know how this works, I was also a contracting inspector for communications systems during my time with the US Air Force.

I'm fairly certain that new IDS purchases, for an org as large as OPM,
which would also include project-term Support contracts, isn't going
to fit into any pre-approved O&M day to day budget... other than maybe
an AF budget :-)

-Jim P.