In May 2000, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) implemented the SENTRY Real Property Management System (SRPMS), a centralized automated system, which records, tracks, depreciates, and disposes property manual records. In addition to maintaining accountability of the BOP’s real property, the SRPMS automatically feeds accounting data to the BOP’s standard general ledger to record real property acquisitions, disposals, transfers, and depreciation.
BOP staff have attended many design meetings, performed thousands of program tests, written over 800 pages of policies and manuals, and provided countless hours of training to ensure a smooth implementation and on-line operation. The development took over two years. The SRPMS provides BOP staff with “one-stop shopping” to review $4.9 billion of property management data.
The SRPMS is extremely user-friendly, consisting of only four screens, but is capable of storing up to 28 different types of data and generating up to seven different reports. The SRPMS has been validated on numerous occasions, most recently by the Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General, which had issued the BOP an unqualified or “clean” audit opinion on the audited financial statements.
For more information, contact Mr. John H. Romine at (202) 307-2068 or via e-mail at jromine@bop.gov.
