The Office of Personnel Management has started to go down a different path than the one it started on in early May when they attempted a sole-source human resources management software contract with Workday.
OPM announced its intentions to award that contract to Workday on May 2 and then cancelled it within the following week. Industry backlash ensued after the initial decision on the sole-source contract, which was set up to help OPM meet the Trump administration’s July 15 deadline for having a new HR system in place.
OPM now appears to be starting on a more traditional procurement process and has scheduled an industry engagement event for July 9-10, according to a Tuesday Sam.gov notice.
The government is now looking at the end of 2028 as its target date to have a new HR management system scaled across all agencies, the notice says.
The Office of Management and Budget, plus the General Services Administration are working with OPM to carry out this event. The agencies are using the event to collect ideas from industry on options and benefits of “consolidating into a centrally managed government-wide human resources information technology suite of capabilities.”
Such a suite would be vast in scope as it would have to cover 3 million federal civilian employees and 438 agencies and sub-agencies, including the 15 Cabinet departments.
Position management, personnel action, records processing, workforce analytics, and employee and manager self-service capabilities are among the solutions the agencies are interested in hearing about from industry providers.
OPM’s invitation to the industry engagement event also lists seven major themes of questions it wants attendees to be prepared to answers:
- Scope of human capital management functions
- Maximizing value while controlling costs
- System migration processes
- Implementation timeframes
- Unified payroll and human capital management functions
- Data extraction capabilities
- Modernization
Registrations for the event are due Monday. In-person, virtual and hybrid attendance options are available.
