Annual Performance Plans Present Contractor Opportunities

The Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-11, Part 6, requires nearly every government agency to issue Strategic Plans, Annual Performance Plans and Annual Performance Reports. The exceptions are the Central Intelligence Agency, the Government Accountability Office, the Panama Canal Commission, the U.S. Postal Service, and the Postal Regulatory Commission.

Many contractors view the plans and the resulting reports as more documents in an endless list that do little more than highlight what the government has done wrong.  Instead, contractors should view the annual plans and reports as opportunities. This is especially the case with the Annual Performance Plans, which provide a more useful level of detail than the Strategic Plans.