unless there's an kppgs, federal contracts must be subject to full and open competition. however there's an exception for compelling and urgent situations. the first phase of this project, which involves securing opm's i.t. environment was indeed such a compelling and urgent situation. that phase addressed a crisis namely the breaches that occurred last year. however the later phases, such as migrating the applications in the new shell environment are not as urgent. instead they involve work that is essentially a long term capital investment. opm should step back, complete its assessment of the opm architecture and develop a major i.t. business case proposal. when omb approval and funding has been secured, they should move forward with the project. opm cannot afford to have this project fail. i fully support opm's effort to modernize the environment and the director's long term goals. however if it is not done correctly the agency will be in a worse situation than it is today and millions of taxpayers will have to be -- many -- and millions of passenger pair dollars will

unless there's an kppgs, federal contracts must be subject to full and open competition. however there's an exception for compelling and urgent situations. the first phase of this project, which involves securing opm's i.t. environment was indeed such a compelling and urgent situation. that phase addressed a crisis, namely the breaches that occurred last year. however the later phases, such as migrating the applications in the new shell environment are not as urgent. instead they involve work that is essentially a long term capital investment. opm should step back, complete its assessment of the opm architecture and develop a major i.t. business case proposal. when omb approval and funding has been secured, they should move forward with the project. opm cannot afford to have this project fail. i fully support opm's effort to modernize the environment and the director's long term goals. however if it is not done correctly the agency will be in a worse situation than it is today and millions of taxpayers will have to be -- many -- and millions of passenger pair dollars will

unless there's an kppgs, federal contracts must be subject to full and open competition. however there's an exception for compelling and urgent situations. the first phase of this project, which involves securing opm's i.t. environment was indeed such a compelling and urgent situation. that phase addressed a crisis namely the breaches that occurred last year. however the later phases, such as migrating the applications in the new shell environment are not as urgent. instead they involve work that is essentially a long term capital investment. opm should step back, complete its assessment of the opm architecture and develop a major i.t. business case proposal. when omb approval and funding has been secured, they should move forward with the project. opm cannot afford to have this project fail. i fully support opm's effort to modernize the environment and the director's long term goals. however if it is not done correctly the agency will be in a worse situation than it is today and millions of taxpayers will have to be -- many -- and millions of passenger pair dollars will