The purpose for establishing this contractual agreement is to ensure the U.S. Army Corps of Engineershas access to strategic management services including expert advice, assistance and guidance; strategic business andaction planning; development of customer, employee, supplier, partner and stakeholder feedback systems basedupon information gathered using assessments (custom-designed as needed); customer outreach planning; support forexecutive development and succession planning; use of automated action-planning system; research capabilities tosupport baseline and trend analysis and benchmarking processes over time; integration of assessment data andaction-planning into an automated performance-management system and the integration of other methodologies, asappropriate, to advance strategic intent and to support performance management overall.