The National Archives and Records Administration and General Services Administration are collaborating to create a new market research tool that will offer agencies “a wide range” of electronic and physical records management solutions.
The effort is part of NARA’s work to support agencies as the paradigm for preserving government records shifts away from hard copies, federal insiders told Nextgov.
The agencies recently cooperated to create a new Special Item Number, or SIN, 51 600 under Schedule 36 that’s specifically for Electronic Records Management and are now planning to launch a new contracting vehicle, ‘ERM Solutions’, on GSA’s Discovery website. It will be equipped with a modern market research tool to help agencies identify the best records management vendor services to meet their needs.
“[We’re] getting out of that mold where records management was a paper process that was predicated on storing thousands and thousands of boxes, and that old model of what records are,” said Arian Ravanbakhsh, supervisory records management policy analyst in NARA’s Office of the Chief Records Officer. “The new approach is going to be electronic and digital.”
Upon recognizing that the future is digital while the federal government’s paper-centric approach is not, the Obama administration set a variety of goals and deadlines to help agencies move to a 21st-century model for records management. And by the end of this year, agencies are directed to manage all their permanent electronic records in an electronic format, as opposed to printing them out and shipping them off for preservation.
NARA is tasked with fleshing out the practices agencies will use to e ..
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