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

IBC is a results-driven organization 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 services provider, IBC can ensure compliance with new requirements through a single update, thereby managing the workload and responsibility for compliance on behalf of 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 expanding mission support shared services across the federal government. This collaboration also supports the continued operation, success, and growth of the shared services business model.

Shared Services – IBC's Value Add

The adoption of a shared services approach to mission support services allows federal agencies to shift common administrative operations to a shared services provider that performs those functions for multiple departments, agencies, or agency units. This approach standardizes support services, reduces duplication of effort, improves service delivery, enhances the customer experience, and saves taxpayer dollars.

Core Capabilities

Acquisition Services

Financial Management Services

Human Resources Services

Authorities and Regulations

IBC’s statutory authority for providing cross-agency support services is authorized through the Department of the Interior's two intragovernmental revolving fund components: the Working Capital Fund, established pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1467; and the Interior Franchise Fund (IFF), established pursuant to Pub. L. No. 104-208 and the 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Act. Congress established revolving funds as a “business type” funding mechanism that allows federal agencies to finance ongoing operations through amounts received by the fund. IBC is authorized to use these revolving funds to support the business management services it provides.

Under OPM'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 a federal shared services provider for financial management. In 2014, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation, the managing partner for the Financial Management Line of Business, recertified IBC as a shared services 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 on behalf of the Department of the Interior and other cognizant federal agencies. These indirect cost rates are negotiated in accordance with OMB Circular 2 CFR 200.

In addition, the IBC is 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 to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in acquisition processes.

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