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Establishment and Implementation

Federal personnel are required to:

  • Demonstrate knowledge of Performance Measurement concepts (e.g. SMART – Specific, Measureable, Actionable, Time-bound)
  • Demonstrate ability to use measures to inform decisionmaking and resource allocation.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of cascading Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that can be used to measure how well mission, management, program, and individual goals are being met.
  • Demonstrate ability to establish baselines from which progress toward attainment of goals can be measured.
  • Demonstrate ability to establish feedback systems to support continuous improvement of an organization’s processes, practices, and results.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of how to combine single building metrics into a system to measure the performance of an organization's buildings portfolio in support of the organization’s overall mission.
  • Demonstrate understanding that investments in training, and in facilities in general, are often not immediately visible or measurable, but that they are manifest over a period of years.
  • Demonstrate ability to perform a sensitivity analysis on proposed measures to determine how much they affect various controllable and uncontrollable drivers:
  • Funding, weather, retirements, individual performance, training, etc.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of current portfolio-level performance indicators, including:
  • Facilities Condition Index or Asset Utilization Index (measures portfolio against mission)
  • Current Replacement Value (total amount of money invested in portfolio)
  • Plant Replacement Value (cost to replace facilities assets in today’s dollars and using today’s methods)
  • Sustainment Rate (adequacy of funding maintenance and repair)
  • Demonstrate ability to understand a base set of key performance indicators for measuring the outcomes of investments and the data to be provided for:
  • Total number and size of facilities
  • Facility types, age, and location
  • Plant Replacement Value (PRV)
  • Facilities Condition Index (FCI)/Installation Readiness Report
  • Deferred Maintenance/Facilities Revitalization Rate
  • Asset Utilization Index
  • Recapitalization Rate
  • Demonstrate ability to understand, provide input for, and use additional KPI developed by the organization to measure the qualitative aspects of facilities operations and management:
  • Cost-effectiveness
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Process efficiencies

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