Premise: We selected the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) because they used a set of balanced expectations to manage the performance of all or a significant portion of their senior executives prior to the OPM requirement.

Hypothesis: The expectation that there is a balanced approach to the OPM requirement is an unrealistic one. 
Relation: contradiction