GAO seeks data on commercial budget software

• By Rob Thormeyer
• Apr 12, 2006

The Government Accountability Office is asking industry for information about commercial software that could assist legislative agencies in formulating annual personnel budget requests to Congress.

In a recent notice, congressional watchdog agency GAO said it is seeking products that let users develop base-level program estimates of employee compensation, benefits and personnel-related costs.

The programs should also let the user record explanations and assumptions that support human capital management, financial-management, budget formulation, workforce planning and payroll processing systems.

Other functions the software should perform include:

• Accounting for different work schedules and compensation or benefits entitlements;


• Annualizing current year full-time equivalent and salary costs;


• Projecting FTE usage and dollar costs;


• Providing flexibility to incorporate business rules and assumptions, such as overtime, promotions, merit increases, specialty pay and compensatory pay.

Responses to the information request are due May 8.