
Simplify federal budget formulation
and execution with GovCycle
GovCycle is a budget solution that streamlines federal budget processes and provides robust analytical capabilities, helping federal government clients save thousands of hours of manual effort annually and leverage their budget data to drive better decision-making.
“[GovCycle] allows staff to autonomously perform many functions that previously required advanced technical support. The system reduced the need for advanced technical support by 75%.”
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$5.6 Billion in Federal Budget
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190+ Users Across the Federal Government
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Featured Solution At the Budget Line of Business 2017 and 2021 Spring Forums
Key Features

Budget Formulation
Create, Manage, and Analyze Budget Requests
Apply drivers (including inflation, pay raises, and retirement) and adjustments to a baseline budget and automatically generate new budget requests. Tune parameters and analyze multiple different scenarios with the click of a button.
Collect Formulation Data
Automatically create, route, track, and consolidate agency-wide data calls to collect budget justification narrative and performance, workload, and strategic goal data to generate budget request exhibits.
Create a Budget Book
Create your agency’s Congressional Budget Justification, including consolidating budget request narrative and exhibits prepared within GovCycle, importing content from outside of GovCycle, and collaborative, real-time document editing with version control.

Budget Execution
Collect Operating Plan Data
Automatically create, route, track, and consolidate agency-wide data calls to collect operating plan requests from offices that conform to budget ceiling validations defined by your budget office as well as your agency’s anticipated appropriation(s).
Analyze Operating Plans
Generate reports to analyze, compare, and drill down into historical and current-year operating plan data collected from divisions and offices.
Distribute Funds
Allocate funds to offices according to an approved operating plan, calculate the partial allocation of funds under a continuing resolution (CR), and create, manage, and analyze multiple hypothetical “what-if” scenarios of potential budget allocations.
Transfer Funds
Create, route, track, and approve requests to transfer funds to and from offices in accordance with up-to-date available funds amounts retrieved from your agency's financial system.
Monitor Reprogramming Thresholds
Monitor the impact of funds transfers on agency-specific reprogramming limits, including real-time reporting on the status of each program against its reprogramming limit, and creating, managing, and analyzing multiple “what-if” scenarios of pending funds transfers.

Financial Reporting
Statement of Net Cost
Apply program cost allocation logic and generate reports for any data set within GovCycle or your agency’s financial system, such as a Statement of Net Cost.
DATA Act Reporting
Conduct end-to-end DATA Act reporting activities, including the generation of File B and File C, through standardized, integrated processes.
Other Features
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Data Validations
Ensure data accuracy and consistency with configurable and automatic data validations.
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Automatic Workflow Routing and Approval
Automate routing and track the completion of budget and planning requests and related communications with powerful, configurable workflows.
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Integration with Federal Financial Systems
Supports interfacing of data and transactions with leading federal financial systems, including Oracle Federal Financials, CGI Momentum, and other legacy applications.
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Robust Security and Administration
Secure your data with multi-dimensional security and permissions, including single sign-in and centralized administration of users and permissions.
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Reporting and Visualizations
Integrate with your preferred reporting solution to build reports and visualizations using your budget data. Leverage an existing Reports Library or build your own ad hoc reports.
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Flexible and Configurable
Leverage out-of-the-box functionality for common budget processes and easily configure new, client-specific functionality in a matter of hours, not days.
To learn more about how GovCycle can save your federal agency
from thousands of hours of manual budget processes, contact us today.
How to get GovCycle
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STEP 1
Acquire License
Acquire our solution through GSA IT Schedule 70: GS-35F-0134W, or through a directed award
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STEP 2
Determine Deployment Strategy
GovCycle can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud, depending on your needs
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STEP 3
Configure for Your Needs
Ascella's Federal Budget Experts will work with you to configure GovCycle to your specific budget process