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Business Case

Date: <mm/dd/yyyy>

TABLE OF CONTENTS

4 1 Executive Summary

5 2 Introduction

5 2.1 Purpose of Business Case

5 3 gENERAL Project iNFORMATION

5 3.1 Problem Statement

5 3.2 Background and Context

5 3.3 Goals

5 3.4 Scope

6 4 Ground Rules, Assumptions, and Criteria

6 4.1 Ground Rules

6 4.2 Assumptions

6 4.3 Evaluation Criteria

7 5 aLTERNATIVES and aNALYSIs

8 5.1 Alternative A

10 5.2 Alternative B

13 6 Preferred Solution

13 6.1 Financial Considerations

13 6.2 Preliminary Acquisition Strategy/Plan

1 Executive Summary

[Provide a synopsis of the key points of this Business Case document. Avoid ambiguous acronyms, terminology, concepts, etc. The Executive Summary is a critical component of the business case. Typically, the Executive Summary is the first section to be read and analyzed by decision-makers; often times it is the only they will read. For this reason, this section should be concise, no more than two pages in length.

While the Executive Summary is the first section to be read it is the last section to be written because it must summarize elements of the entire document. The Executive Summary should “identify the problem statement in question, and highlight key elements of the recommendation. It should summarize mission and business impacts, analyses results, as well as briefly address other important sections as required to help the reader quickly understand the BCA’s… recommendation. The Executive Summary provides the recommended solution and why it is recommended over the competing alternatives. It should include a reference to each rejected alternative and how it compares to the recommended alternative in costs and benefits, pros and cons, and other relative merits …. This comparison can be portrayed as a balancing of tradeoffs among alternatives for a more robust recommendation. Items within the recommendation section should minimally include: Key assumptions that drove the recommendation, Brief description of the alternatives, Description of the approach, Summary of objective criteria and conclusions, Description of the implementation plan at a level of detail necessary to support the recommendation” (DOD, 2011, pp. 13-14)]

2 Introduction

2.1 Purpose of Business Case

3 gENERAL Project iNFORMATION

3.1 Problem Statement

3.2 Background and Context

3.3 Goals

3.4 Scope

4 Ground Rules, Assumptions, and Criteria

4.1 Ground Rules

4.2 Assumptions

4.3 Evaluation Criteria

5 aLTERNATIVES and aNALYSIs

5.1 Alternative A

5.1.1 Cost and Economic Viability

5.1.2 Requirements Summary

5.1.3 Risk Summary

5.2 Alternative B

5.2.1 Cost and Economic Viability

5.2.2 Requirements Summary

5.2.3 Risk Summary

6 Preferred Solution

Overall Comparison of Alternatives	Financial	Non-Financial	Best Option
	Net Present Value	Cost	Savings	Requirements (Exceeds, Meets, Not Acceptable)	Risk (Low, Med, High)
Alternative 1 (As-Is)			N/A
Alternative 2

6.1 Financial Considerations

6.2 Preliminary Acquisition Strategy/Plan