Description: Tags: By08fsafms
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(FSA FMS)
Exhibit 300: Part I: Summary Information and Justification (All
Capital Assets)
Overview
Date of Submission:
Agency: Department of Education
Bureau: Federal Student Aid
Name of this Capital Asset: Federal Student Aid Financial
Management System (FSA FMS)
Unique Project (Investment) 018-45-01-01-01-1060-00
Identifier: (For IT investment
only, see section 53. For all other,
use agency ID system.)
What kind of investment will this Mixed Life Cycle
be in FY2008? (Please NOTE:
Investments moving to O&M ONLY
in FY2008, with
Planning/Acquisition activities
prior to FY2008 should not select
O&M. These investments should
indicate their current status.)
What was the first budget year FY2001 or earlier
this investment was submitted to
OMB?
Provide a brief summary and justification for this investment,
including a brief description of how this closes in part or in
whole an identified agency performance gap:
Utilizing Oracle Federal Financials, FMS is the single point of financial
information by institution, integrating transactions both from the FSA
feeder systems as well as from the Grants Administration and Payment
System (GAPS). Accordingly, FMS provides consolidated data to support
key management analysis and is the only source within the Department
of Education to obtain a comprehensive financial picture of an
institution across all FSA programs. FMS consolidates and manages all
FSA program transactions from FSA's feeder systems (e.g., FFEL, Direct
Loan, Pell, LEAP/SLEAP, and Campus-based transactions). The feeders
interface functional transactions to FMS where they are translated to
the appropriate accounting. It facilitates reconciliation and internal
program management and reporting, and large volumes of payment
processing. FMS tracks and manages the payment processing for direct
loan originations and consolidations by GAPS and processes refunds to
borrowers for overpaid loans. Through highly customized extensions,
tightly integrated with the Oracle sub-ledgers, FMS processes large
volumes of payments to the lender and guarantee agency communities.
It receives electronic invoices and advice of fees payable to Education,
performs complex custom validations and reasonability checks to
minimize erroneous payments, and processes the transactions through
Oracle sub-ledgers to generate Treasury payment files and accounting
transactions. The accounting transactions are, in turn, summarized and
sent to the FMSS core financial management system for external
financial reporting. FMS serves a mission-critical function as a FFEL
program front-end payment system, for reconciliation to the FSA feeder
systems, for more detailed internal program management reporting,
and for additional levels of system controls. However, FMS does not
fulfill the central functions of a JFMIP core financial management
systems. FMSS, not FMS, produces all external financial reports, such
as the financial statements, FACTS I and FACTS II, and the SF224. In
addition, FMSS serves as the source for all budget funding transactions
(appropriation, apportionment, and allotment data), establishing the
budget authority for the Department's financial management systems.
Did the Agency's Yes
Executive/Investment Committee
approve this request?
a. If "yes," what was the date of
this approval?
Did the Project Manager review Yes
this Exhibit?
Has the agency developed and/or No
promoted cost effective, energy
efficient and environmentally
sustainable techniques or
practices for this project.
a. Will this investment include No
electronic assets (including
computers)?
b. Is this investment for new No
construction or major retrofit of a
Federal building or facility?
(answer applicable to non-IT
assets only)
1. If "yes," is an ESPC or UESC
being used to help fund this
investment?
2. If "yes," will this
investment meet sustainable
design principles?
3. If "yes," is it designed to be
30% more energy efficient than
relevant code?
Does this investment support one Yes
of the PMA initiatives?
If "yes," check all that apply: Financial Performance,
Expanded E-Government
a. Briefly describe how this FMS facilitates the payment
asset directly supports the processing for all FSA programs.
identified initiative(s)? The Form 2000 and the Lenders
Reporting systems have
replaced paper driven
processes. Both the Guaranty
Agency and Lender/Servicer
communities now submit their
reports/payment request
electronically thus eliminating all
paper processes. Form 2000
was awarded the e-Gov award
for best in business practice.
These initiatives also support
the President's Management
Agenda (PMA) by reducing
cumbersome business processes
and reducing cost.
Does this investment support a No
program assessed using the
Program Assessment Rating Tool
(PART)? (For more information
about the PART, visit
www.whitehouse.gov/omb/part.)
a. If "yes," does this investment No
address a weakness found during
the PART review?
b. If "yes," what is the name of
the PART program assessed by
OMB's Program Assessment
Rating Tool?
c. If "yes," what PART rating did
it receive?
Is this investment for information Yes
technology?
If the answer to Question: "Is this investment for information
technology?" was "Yes," complete this sub-section. If the
answer is "No," do not answer this sub-section.
For information technology investments only:
What is the level of the IT Level 2
Project? (per CIO Council PM
Guidance)
What project management (1) Project manager has been
qualifications does the Project validated as qualified for this
Manager have? (per CIO Council investment
PM Guidance):
Is this investment identified as No
"high risk" on the Q4 - FY 2006
agency high risk report (per
OMB's "high risk" memo)?
Is this a financial management Yes
system?
a. If "yes," does this investment Yes
address a FFMIA compliance area?
1. If "yes," which compliance Compliance with all three:
area: Federal accounting standards,
USSGL at transaction level, and
JFMIP requirements
2. If "no," what does it
address?
b. If "yes," please identify the system name(s) and system
acronym(s) as reported in the most recent financial systems
inventory update required by Circular A-11 section 52
Federal Student Aid Financial Management System (FSA FMS)
What is the percentage breakout for the total FY2008 funding
request for the following? (This should total 100%)
Hardware 0
Software 35.000000
Services 65.000000
Other
If this project produces Yes
information dissemination
products for the public, are these
products published to the Internet
in conformance with OMB
Memorandum 05-04 and included
in your agency inventory,
schedules and priorities?
Are the records produced by this Yes
investment appropriately
scheduled with the National
Archives and Records
Administration's approval?
Summary of Funding
Performance Information
Alternatives Analysis
Risk Management