About the Interior Business Center

The Interior Business Center is a federal shared services provider that operates under a fee-for-service, full cost recovery business model, offering Acquisition, Financial Management and Human Resources systems and services to federal organizations.

For more than 30 years, IBC has supported federal agencies by providing business solutions that allow them to focus on their core missions. Currently, we serve over 150 different federal organizations, including the Department of the Interior.

IBC is a results-driven organization. We are committed to proactively measuring, assessing, and managing all aspects of delivered services as evaluated against the performance metrics established in our service-level agreements (SLAs). As a shared service provider, IBC is able to ensure compliance with new requirements with a single update, thereby shouldering the workload and responsibility for compliance for our customer agencies.

We work in collaboration with our federal partners and stakeholders, including OMB and GSA, to provide a consistent long-term strategy for the expansion of mission support shared services within the federal government and to support the continued operations, success and growth of the shared service business model.

Shared Services – IBC's Value Add

The adoption of a shared services approach to providing mission support services allows federal agencies to move common administrative operations to a shared services provider that performs those operations for more than one department, agency, or agency unit. This approach standardizes support services, reducing duplication of efforts, improving service delivery, enhancing the customer experience, and saving American taxpayers dollars.

Core Capabilities

Acquisition Services

We provide Procurement and Financial Assistance support for award, administration and closeout of purchases and grants. Service includes acquisition planning, solicitation, evaluation, negotiation, source selection, award, protest support, contract administration and closeout. Aviation acquisitions include contracting for search and rescue missions, fire suppression, and biological studies projects.

Financial Management Services

We provide the core financial management system for federal agencies. Our Oracle Federal Financials system integrates with acquisitions systems (CLM & PRISM), federal payroll providers (IBC & NFC), eTravel systems (ConcurGov & E2 Solutions), and charge card (CitiBank & U.S. Bank). We also offer indirect cost rate negotiation and contract audit services.

Human Resources Services

We offer a comprehensive set of hire-to-retire systems and services, including payroll, human resources, talent development, employee performance, drug and alcohol testing, and personnel security. Our comprehensive and integrated HR support services meet or exceed all government requirements and federal payroll guidelines.

Authorities and Regulations

IBC’s statutory authority for providing cross agency support services is through the Department of the Interior's two intragovernmental revolving fund components, i.e., the Working Capital Fund, which was established pursuant to 43 USC 1467 and the Interior Franchise Fund (IFF) established pursuant to Pub. L. No. 104-208 and the 2008 Omnibus Appropriation bill. Congress established revolving funds as a “business type” of fund to allow federal agencies to finance a cycle of operations through amounts received by the fund. IBC is authorized to use revolving funds to support the business management services it provides.

Under the Office of Personnel Management’s ePayroll and Human Resources Line of Business initiatives, IBC is a designated Human Resources Federal Shared Service Center to federal agencies.

Through a competitive process in 2004, OMB designated IBC as federal shared service provider in financial management. In 2014, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Innovation and Transformation Office, managing partner for the Financial Management Line of Business, recertified IBC as a shared service provider for financial management. IBC is currently one of the three federal shared services providers included in the Financial Management QSMO Marketplace Catalog.

 IBC is also a Grants QSMO-validated provider, serving the federal financial assistance grants and acquisition contracts community. IBC negotiates indirect cost rate agreements with non-federal entities and on behalf of the Department of Interior and other cognizant federal agencies. These indirect cost rates are negotiated in accordance with OMB Circular 2 CFR 200.

In addition, we are authorized by the Department of the Interior, our parent agency, to provide interagency acquisition services. OMB’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy provides overall direction for government-wide procurement policies, regulations and procedures and to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in acquisition processes.

Introduction to the Interior Business Center

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