OIRM will continue to provide Departmental guidance on self-reviews. The program's second category refers to OIRM selective reviews. These are scheduled by OIRM, with agency agreement, normally after a period of preparation. OIRM conducts these reviews itself, with the agency participating. Selective reviews occur for a variety of reasons, but they typically give OIRM more comprehensive IRM insight than comes from a self-review summary.
Agencies also gain an outside party's reaction to their efforts.
These reviews are of short duration, on-site, and collaborative. They bring together IRM policy staffs in the agencies with those in OIRM and provide feedback on OIRM policies. Selective Reviews are joint efforts to provide agencies with recommendations for improvement, maximize use of OIRM's limited resources to validate agencies' management of information resources and assure the Secretary that IRM policy is working as intended. The above approach allows agencies the autonomy of self-review, and OIRM the flexibility to focus its efforts. IRM self-reviews the agency will conduct.