United States Department of Labor

Department of Labor FY 2015 Service Contract Inventory Plan for Analysis

As the Department gets ready to perform its FY 2015 contract inventory and analysis, it will incorporate lessons learned from the 2014 inventory and apply them to the upcoming inventory.

DOL will develop basic inventory in accordance with OMB guidance using FPDS-NG data to address a number of the inventory requirements consistent with the Consolidated Appropriations Act and collect additional data through interviews in order to gather supplemental contract data in response to many of the criteria required by Section 743.

Special Interest Functions

The Product Service Codes (PSCs) selected focused on Special Interest Functions in two areas:

1. OMB Special Interest Functions — based on PSCs designated by OMB/OFPP as being of high risk; and
2. DOL Special Interest Categories — DOL identified specific PSCs with high dollar/ high risk awards from the Office of Job Corps, Bureau of Labor Statistics and other procurement activities.

OMB Special Interest Functions

DOL’s Special Interest Categories

DOL will take the following steps in the process of its analysis:

• Consolidate interview results.
• Crosswalk interview data with Contractor Inventory data.
• Evaluate data in accordance with policy and guidance.
• Develop a Selection Criteria to identify contracts for in-depth review.  Based on the 10 criteria identified within the Consolidated Appropriations Act, DOL will prioritize its selection of contracts for further review in the following order:
  • Potential for Inherently Governmental performance by contractors;
  • Contracts providing services classified as special interest functions; and
  • Contracts that do not include special interest functions, but were awarded on a non-competitive basis, considered high risk/high spending or meet any one of the remaining designated criteria.