President Bush's Management Agenda is a strategy for improving the management and performance of the Federal government. The Agenda focuses on five areas of management weakness across the government where improvements and progress can be made. These include:

• Strategic Management of Human Capital
• Competitive Sourcing
• Improved Financial Management
• Expanded Electronic Government (E-Gov)
• Budget/Performance Integration

The E-Government Act of 2002 was signed into law in December 2002 (Public Law 107-347), and it highlights the President's Management Agenda of expanding E-Gov initiatives. The law is designed to enhance the management of and expand E-Gov services and processes and to increase the electronic availability of information to the public. The Office of E-Government and IT is required to work with state, local, tribal governments, the general public, and the private and nonprofit sectors to find ways to improve government performance in collaborating on the use of IT.

GSA takes a specific leadership role in E-Gov "Integrated Acquisition Environment." This initiative is intended to create a secure business environment that facilitates and supports cost-effective acquisition of goods and services by agencies, while eliminating inefficiencies in and duplications of efforts in the current acquisition environment. The goals remain:

• Create a simpler, common, integrated business process for buyers and sellers that promotes competition, transparency and integrity.
• Increase data sharing to enable better business decisions in procurement, logistics, payment and performance assessment.
• Take a unified approach to obtaining modern tools to leverage investment costs for business related processes.
• Deploy a single point of registration and validation of supplier data accessed by all agencies.
• Implement a central point for consolidated collection and access of statistical and management information related to government acquisitions.
• Implement a directory of GWAC and MAC contracts to simplify selection and facilitate leverage of Government buying.
• Develop a standard glossary and vocabulary to facilitate exchange of data between and within agencies.
• Transform intra-governmental ordering and billing to enable universal electronic processes, reduce payment and collection problems, and enable swift and accurate revenue and expense elimination processes for preparing consolidated financial statements.

• www.bpn.gov  - Business Partner Network
• www.ccr.gov  - Central Contractor Registration
• www.fpds-ng.com  - Federal Procurement Data System - Next Generation
• www.ppirs.gov  - Past Performance Information Retrieval System
• www.egov.gov  - Official website for E-Gov Initiatives