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Sponsored by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service's Administrative Resource Center (ARC), BFEM is a provider of strategic planning, budget formulation, and performance management shared services to federal agencies and organizations.
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Customers use the Budget Formulation capabilities to:
- Collect and aggregate financial and human resource allocations/requests and their justifications to support formulation of an agency’s budget,
- Create budget sets that maintain distinct phases of the budget process with full audit trails and track changes on the budget, and
- Generate analytical reports and budget documents such as the OMB Submission, Congressional Justifications, Budget Summary, and MAX A-11.
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Customers use the Performance Management capabilities to:
- Define measures, goals, and milestones, and support distributed data calls for collection of all defined measures,
- Control reporting periods, provide exception reporting, and compare metrics to forecasts and actual performance,
- Support inclusion of measures into budget formulation documents, and
- Generate the Annual Performance Plan (APP), Annual Performance Report (APR), and GRPA Act of 2010 (Performance.gov) machine readable report.
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Customers use the Strategic Planning capabilities to:
- Create a baseline budget by applying inflation factors at any level, and to analyze and adjust the baseline,
- Develop and perform analysis of stragetic initiatives or options, capturing the narrative description, cost analysis, and performance analysis of an option in a single system
- Build scenarios by approving or disapproving specific options to see the impact of decisions on the budget, and
- Produce strategic planning documents with dynamic tables linked to both performance and budget data.
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To inquire about new or expanded services, please contact an ARC Customer Service Representative at 304-480-7227 or email the ARC Communications Mailbox.
For operational support and maintenance, please contact your assigned Customer Manager or email the BFEM Operations Mailbox.
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