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Joseph M. Ward, Jr.

Director, Interior Business Center

Interior Business Center FM FSSP

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The Interior Business Center helped pioneer shared services in the federal government

Our origins span about 30 years culminating in the 1999 merger of:

BOR Denver Administrative Service Center USGS Washington Administrative Service Center DOI/OS Interior Service Center

Authorized Shared Service Center in Financial Management and Human Resources

We have operations in seven states Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, District of

Columbia, Idaho and Virginia

IBC History

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We serve a customer base of more than 150 government offices and federal agencies

IBC Federal Customers

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

• Bureau of Indian Affairs• Bureau of Land Management• Bureau of Ocean Energy Management• Bureau of Reclamation• Bureau of Safety and Environmental

Enforcement• National Park Service • Office of the Secretary• Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and

Enforcement • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service• U.S. Geological Survey

OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES

• American Battle Monuments Commission

• Department of Education

• Department of Homeland Security

• Department of Transportation

• Federal Labor Relations Authority

• Millennium Challenge Corporation

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• National Transportation Safety Board

• Social Security Administration

• U.S. Trade and Development Agency

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IBC Core Capabilities

Acquisition ServicesProvides lifecycle assisted acquisition from project inception through contract closeout.

Financial Management Provides financial management services, including accounting, core financial systems support and indirect cost rate negotiations.

Human Resources Delivers a comprehensive set of personnel systems and services, including payroll, training management, drug-free workforce program, and personnel security.

Organized into three lines of business

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Fee for service: no appropriated funding received

Costs are based on customer requirements

Shared costs for technology and infrastructure

Operational efficiencies through standardized processes and procedures

Transparency for Customers

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Cost/Benefit Considerations

Standardized processesProven solutionEconomies of skillEconomies of scaleFederal expertiseNot for profitStable workforceContinuous monitoring

program (NIST standards)

Incentives to partner with small businesses

Acquisition and payroll services

Competed commercial partnerships

Innovative technologiesBest practicesProven project management

and risk mitigation approach

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Agency Cost Government Savings

Actual Example: ERP Hosting Services

Government-wide savings grow with each additional participant.

Agency costs drop as $3M fixed cost is

spread across multiple

participants.

Economies of Scale

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Governance

IBC Customer

Oversight and strategic direction

Approve, prioritize and schedule upgrades

and patches

Prioritize and schedule requests; issue resolution

Performance monitoring

Oversight andstrategic direction

Approve, prioritize and schedule upgrades and patches

Request changes

Continuous dialogue and interaction

IBC and customer are jointly responsible for sustaining the

success of the selected solution

Executive Committee

Configuration Control Board (systems)

Customer Support

Users / Users Groups

Future Model

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Hosting, O&M, initial training, base reports, help desk, licenses maintenance, operations and batch processing, interfaces

(payroll, charge cards, Treasury disbursements)

Federal Administrator, iProcurement, Purchasing, Payables, Fixed Assets, Inventory, Receivables, and General Ledger

Optional Modules

(CLM, Projects, Billings,

IPP)

Agency-Specific Reports

Accounting Services

eTravel Support

HR ServicesAcquisition

Support

IBC Offering (FM Perspective)

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Mandatory

Typical Functionality

OptionalFunctionality and Services

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Pre-configured instance of OFF,

incorporating common federal

financial accounting practices

Federalized core Oracle product in

the form of application extensions

Standard interface application for integration of external data

sources - eTravel applications,

federal payroll providers, credit

card providers, and procurement applications

Fully compliant and pre-populated

with Treasury’s Standard General

Ledger (SGL) accounts

IBC OFF Solution

Typical implementations of OFF include the following core financials modules: General Ledger, Federal Administrator, Payables, Receivables, Fixed Assets, and Purchasing.

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IBC OFF Current Production Landscape

Connect Direct Used to transmit

payment, banking, and etravel files for

multiple clients.

Payment files routed to Dept of Treasury

who in turnreturns file to IBC

Mainframe containing info for confirmations

IBC MainframeBanking, Local Board. &

Payment interface files are pushed and pulled from this

platform.

Oracle RMANContinuous interim

backups

Disaster Recovery Site in Boulder CO

Dedicated Circuit(DS3 Line)

Standard Interface ApplicationFor Payroll Integration

DBLINK to NBCSTD/TDAPRD

Secure Transport Used to provide output files for clients

Shared Production (NBCSTD)

MULTINODEWebserver

Intel Redhat ES 5.0, Oracle Apps Version:

12.1Latest Security Patch:

April 2014 Admin TierIntel Redhat ES 5.0

Fiber Switch

TSM Server

100/10 Network

RSA KEY with DENOF8/DENOF17

Secure Copy payment files to mainframe to host directory

Automated Tape Library – Tivoli

Weekly Full Cold Backup

Shared Production (NBCSTD)Denof18 DiscovererIntel Redhat ES 5.0Shared Production (NBCSTD)

Denof16 DatabaseIntel Redhat ES 5.0, DB: 11g

Firewall

Internet (VPN) or Dedicated Secure

Connections

SAN – EMC VNX Storage Array

10/100 Ethernet

Fibre Channel

Dedicated WAN

LEGEND

SNI link

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IBC OFF Future Virtual Environment

Landscape

Payment files routed to Dept of Treasury

who in turnreturns file to IBC

Mainframe containing info for confirmations

IBC Drop BoxBanking, Local Board. &

Payment interface files are pushed and pulled from this

platform.

Oracle RMANContinuous

interim backups

Dedicated Circuit(DS3 Line)

Standard Interface ApplicationFor Payroll Integration

DBLINK to NBCSTD/TDAPRD

Secure Transport Used to provide output files for clients

Shared Production (NBCSTD)

MULTINODEWebserver

Intel Redhat ES 5.0, Oracle Apps Version:

12.1Latest Security Patch:

April 2014

Disaster Recovery Site in Reston VA

Fiber Switch

10/100 Ethernet

Fibre Channel

Dedicated WAN

LEGEND

Firewall

Automated Tape Library – Tivoli

Weekly Full Cold Backup

TSM Server100 NetworkInternet (VPN) or Dedicated Secure

Connections

Connect Direct Used to transmit

payment, banking, and etravel files for

multiple clients.

Storage

SynchronizationSAN – EMC VNX

Storage Array

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Offering Oracle Federal Financials (OFF) since 2003, migrated many of former legacy FFS

customers onto OFF shared solution

Currently supporting 16 clients, with

differing complexity and transaction volume

American Battlefield Monuments

Commission (ABMC) was first customer with

disbursements in foreign currency

First federal SSP to migrate to the current

Oracle release 12 solution

In 2010, implemented three agencies onto

OFF at the same time and on time

IBC OFF Experience

Currently working with Oracle on our ability to move forward with the next supported release

OFF clients - Federal Trade Commission, Millennium Challenge Corporation, National Transportation Safety Board, Selective Service System, National Labor Relations Board, among others.

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Core set of complementary services Acquisition Financial Management Human Resources

Complex and diverse client base 

Expertise to support two financial systems FBMS (SAP) Oracle Federal Financials R12

Strategy Focused Organization

IBC Value Proposition

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Contractual Services and Products

IBC partners with industry to assist in providing support to current and potential client agencies of Oracle Federal Financials (OFF) in the following areas:

Participate in client engagement activities and preparation of proposals to implement OFF and other Oracle enterprise applications

Develop proposals for implementing new functionality for existing OFF client agencies

Serve as the integrator where the IBC is selected as the FSSP for new customer implementation or enhanced functionality as desired by existing client agency

Provide support for OFF implementation activities for which the government is specifically responsible

Provide support for OFF application operations and maintenance

Our current contracting vehicle is a Small Business Set-Aside.

Our small business partner is i360technologies, Inc.

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Application Software licenses

Accounting Operations Support (small business)

Hosting and IT support DOI OCIO and its industry partners

Contractual Services and Products

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• Project Management support

Other areas where IBC may be considering

contractual services and products

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Questions

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Interior Business Center Financial Management LoB

www.doi.gov/ibc/services/finance/

FM_outreach@ibc.doi.gov

Contact Information