Department of the Navy Enterprise Budget Formulation Solution Request for Information (RFI)

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This document outlines four demonstration scenarios that respondents selected for a live demonstration must be prepared to showcase. The goal is to demonstrate the tool's flexibility, analytical power, and ease of use in a Navy-relevant context.

Scenario 1: The Acquisition Command - "Future Frigate Program"

• Objective: Demonstrate management of a complex, multi-year Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) budget with different appropriation types and shifting requirements.
• Demonstration Steps: Build baseline budget (5-year profile, RDT&E,N, SCN funding), execute mid-year changes (congressional plus-up), model "what-if" drills (15% SCN reduction), and generate reports (before/after impact, time-phased funding, year of execution spend planning).

Scenario 2: The Golden Fleet - "Carrier Strike Group Deployment"

• Objective: Demonstrate building and managing an operational budget based on OPTEMPO and personnel readiness for a major fleet command.
• Demonstration Steps: Build deployment budget (fiscal periods, steaming days, flight hours, maintenance, POL, repair parts, communications), manage personnel costs (MPN, PCS moves), analyze readiness scenarios (30-day extension impact), and generate reports (dashboard, budget vs. actuals).

Scenario 3: The Headquarters Command - "Strategic Portfolio Review"

• Objective: Demonstrate strategic analysis and portfolio management capabilities for senior leadership decision-making.
• Demonstration Steps: Aggregate a portfolio (Future Frigate, Next-Gen Fighter, Cyber Resilience), execute strategic trade-offs ($500M cut across portfolio with different COAs), link to strategy (flagging high-priority cuts), and generate reports (high-level summary brief comparing COAs).

Scenario 4: The Consolidated Enterprise View - "DON Budget Roll-Up"

• Objective: Demonstrate consolidation of disparate budget inputs into a single, cohesive enterprise-level view.
• Demonstration Steps: Consolidate data (from Scenarios 1, 2, 3 into DON-level database), perform data validation and analysis (growth/decline reports, drill-down capability), prepare for submission (locking, exporting to PBIS format), and generate an OP-5 budget exhibit for The Golden Fleet.

Vendors must be prepared to demonstrate their solution's capabilities across these four distinct scenarios, covering acquisition, operational, strategic, and enterprise-level budgeting and financial management within the Department of the Navy context. Success in these demonstrations is a key requirement for selected respondents.

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This document, "DON Budget Formulation," is an attachment providing detailed requirements for a potential Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) platform. The Department of the Navy (DON) seeks to modernize its Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) processes, specifically focusing on the "Pre-PBIS" budget formulation phase.

• Modernization Goal: Replace disparate, legacy systems with a single, integrated SaaS EPM platform for standardized, automated, and auditable budget formulation across all commands.
• Core Capabilities: The platform must support budget creation, aggregation, reconciliation, workflow automation, scenario-based modeling, and the generation of budget exhibits and load files.
• AI & Integration: Emphasis on AI capabilities for anomaly detection, scenario analysis, predictive analytics, and automated narrative generation. Integration with existing DON systems (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, PBIS) is critical.
• Reporting: Real-time, role-based dashboards and a wide range of standard and ad-hoc reporting capabilities are required.
• Security: The solution must be FedRAMP authorized (High), eligible for Impact Level 5 (IL5) or IL6, compliant with NIST standards, and support Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA).
• Demonstration Scenarios: Vendors will be required to demonstrate their solution's ability to handle specific scenarios for Acquisition Commands, Fleet units, and Headquarters Commands, culminating in a consolidated department-wide view.

This attachment outlines the comprehensive functional, technical, and security requirements for a significant DON IT modernization initiative. Bidders should use this document to understand the scope of the required solution, the specific capabilities needed, and the demonstration scenarios they will need to address. It serves as a foundational document for potential whitepaper submissions, detailing the government's needs for a modern budget formulation platform.