Defense Finance and Accounting Service Acquisition Program for the Electronic Document Management Program

摘要

This report provides the results of our review of the Increment 1, Vendor Pay, life-cycle documentation. The Vendor Pay increment will standardize and automate the document workflow for payments of commercial invoices at five initial DFAS centers or operating locations. In fiscal year 1996, under the current system, DoD paid approximately $290 million in personnel costs to process 13.7 million invoices. Increment 1, if implemented at the 17 locations proposed, will have an estimated life-cycle cost of $404 million for fiscal years 1995 through 2009. The estimated life-cycle costs for the first phase of five locations is $100 million for fiscal years 1995 through 2004. The DFAS expects that reductions in personnel costs made possible by the Program will yield a return on investment but has not yet developed an estimate of the amount. This audit report is the first in a series of reports on the DoD acquisition strategy for the DFAS Electronic Document Management Program and provides the results of our review of the Increment 1, Vendor Pay, life-cycle documentation. The Director, DFAS, requested that we review the implementation of the Program through the integrated product team process and provide input during the acquisition process.