Budget formulation is the primary process in the budget cycle by which federal agencies identify the resources, both dollars and FTEs, necessary to effectively carry out their objectives. Three major budget submissions are produced each year for three different stakeholders. Internal submissions are presented to senior agency leadership in June; the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) submission is completed in September; and the Congressional budget is presented in February. PPC brings extensive experience and expertise to support the budget formulation process. Our subject matter experts work closely with federal budget analysts to support the three major budget submissions. Through our budget formulation solutions, budget office personnel are able to identify and manage dollars and resources through familiar desktop tools. Excel is by far the most popular budgeting technology used in the market today. PPC’s budget solutions leverage the popularity of Excel with standard web-forms for data entry. Unstructured data is an integral part of the budget process as well, and must be equally managed with structured data. Therefore, narrative budget justifications are maintained in MS Word for ease of use and narrative extendibility. Word allows maximum text manipulation and provides full word processing capabilities. Finally, because auditing and version control are essential to the budget formulation process, both features are provided through the solution’s underlying database and document management systems.

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