Budget and Performance Integration (BPI)

Existing performance budgeting efforts, including the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) and the Office of Management and Budget’s Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), provide a foundation for a baseline review of existing federal programs. Building upon the legacy of GPRA and PART, the President’s Budget and Performance Integration (BPI) initiative is intended to enhance the government’s ability to evaluate competing demands for federal dollars by equipping decision makers with better information on the results of individual programs. These efforts place a heavy burden on federal agencies to demonstrate improved program performance. Maintaining performance data in the same, single database with budgetary data is industry standard. Adding a BPI component that integrates budget and performance information was a natural progression of the PPC budgeting solution set. Our BPI platform facilitates the analysis of relationships between program resources and program output capabilities that can be used to forecast expected results and resource requirement targets. Additionally, the standardization of performance charts, tables, and graphs allows for reuse in various reports and publications. This platform allows for improved monitoring and control of performance measures; however, simply monitoring individual performance measures without linking them to agency-wide strategic goals is insufficient to support true performance management. PPC’s strategic mapping capabilities are core to our BPI platform. The ability to define agency strategic goals, their related agency performance goals, and the performance indicators that help to achieve each performance goal is a critical function of any BPI tool. Once these relationships are established, the prioritization of resources based on contributions to strategic goals can take place, maximizing return on investment (ROI) for the agency, the government, and ultimately taxpayers.