[181257] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OPM Data Breach - Whitehouse Petition - Help Wanted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Fri Jun 19 12:23:12 2015
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:23:10 -0400
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Naslund, Steve <SNaslund@medline.com> wro=
te:
> There is an O&M budget created for the day to day operation and maintenan=
ce of IT systems. This is approved along with your department's budget ann=
ually. If you classify updating equipment as an O&M function (which it rou=
tinely is) then you have no issues. You purchase your equipment off pre-ex=
isting 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 o=
ut. 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.
