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Appendix I: PART Guidance on Efficiency Measures
Pages 128-132

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... Sound efficiency measures capture skillfulness in executing programs, implementing activities, and achieving results, while avoiding wasted resources, effort, time, and/or money. Simply put, efficiency is the ratio of the outcome or output to the input of any program.
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From page 129...
... . Leveraging program resources can be a rational policy decision, as it leads to risk or cost sharing; however, it is not an acceptable efficiency measure, because the leveraging ratio of non-Federal to Federal dollars represents only inputs.
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From page 130...
... For more detailed discussion on defining acceptable efficiency measures please see the section called "4. Select Performance Measure" of this document or visit OMB's PART website.2 Evidence/Data: Evidence can include efficiency measures, competitivesourcing plans, IT improvement plans designed to produce tangible productivity and efficiency gains, or IT business cases that document how particular projects improve efficiency.
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From page 131...
... Evidence/Data: Evidence can include meeting performance targets to reduce per unit costs or time, meeting production and schedule targets; or meeting other targets that result in tangible productivity or efficiency gains. Efficiency measures may also be considered in Questions 4.1 and 4.2.
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