R&K and teaming partner LMI have been awarded a contract to continue FOM model development and operations for OSD. FOM is OSD’s model that calculates the cost of facility operations on an annual basis. FOM calculates operations dollar requirements from the “bottom up” for 12 distinct facility related Service areas: Utilities (energy), utilities (water & waste water), pest control, custodial, refuse, leases, pavement clearance, grounds maintenance, fire & emergency services, energy management, real property & engineering services, and engineering readiness.

This year’s task include: continued operation of the FOM; a complete review of the FOM Business Rules based on the new OSD real property data reporting rules; update of Service related cost factors and locality factors (combination of geographic related labor and materials cost as scaled by climate); and an independent study of FOM accuracy and predictability using “did spend” data from all the Military Services gathered from their planned joint basing sites.

FOM is one ODUSD (I&E)’s three facility related budget planning models…the others being the Facilities Sustainment Model (FSM) and the Facilities Modernization Model (FMM). I&E’s Dr. Get Moy calls these three models his “TRIAD” for facility budget planning. All three models are currently maintained by R&K Engineering, Inc.