LIMS Glossary-Acronyms.pdf

Food and Drug Administration Glossary and List of Abbreviations for

Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) IDIQ and Task Orders

Abbreviation, Acronym, or Term Definition

AACLD/LAD American Association of Crime Lab Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Division

ALM Automated Laboratory Management AnIML Analytical Information Markup Language ANSI American National Standards Institute

Apps Desk ORA Applications Help Desk ARRMS Authorization, Roles, and Responsibilities Management Service BITMS Business Information Technology Management Staff BPMS Business Process Management System

BR Business Rules BRD Business Requirements Document

C/SSR Cost Schedule Status Report CCB Change Control Board CD Compact Disk

CD-ROM Compact Disk–Read-Only Memory CFR Code of Federal Regulations

CFSAN Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition CFSR Contract Funds Status Report CHDC Contractor Hosted Data Center

CI Configuration Items CISPro Chemical Inventory System from ChemSW

CM Configuration Management ConOps Concept of Operations COOP Continuity of Operations Plan COTR Contracting Officer Technical representative COTS Commercial, Off-the-Shelf CPR Cost Performance Report CSV Comma-Separated Values DAR Decision Analysis Result. A DAR Report provides a recommendation on a particular technology, architecture, or strategic choice. It usually contains a problem statement, different alternatives, market research, requirements (critical, high, medium, low), and the relative technological, management, and financial merits of the different alternatives. Alternatives may be rated by a numerical score derived from how well requirements would be fulfilled.

DEN Denver District Laboratory, Denver, CO DHRD Division Of Human Resource Development DIO Division of Infrastructure Operations

LIMS IDIQ Glossary

DIO-FOB Division of Infrastructure Operations—Field Operations Branch DIST Data and Information Standards and Technology DVD Digital Versatile Disk EA Enterprise Architecture

EDC Electronic Data Capture EIA Electronic Industries Association eLEXNET Electronic Laboratory Exchange Network, a component of ALM EPLC Enterprise Performance Life Cycle ERIC Employee Resource and Information Center EVM Earned Value Management

EVMS EVM System FACTS Field Accomplishments and Compliance Tracking System

FCC Forensic Chemistry Center, Cincinnati, OH FDA Food and Drug Administration

FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act, Title III of the E- Government Act (Public Law 107-347), December 2002

FMS Firm Management System FOI Freedom of Information FTE Full-Time Equivalent or Full-Time Employee FTP File Transfer Protocol

FURLS FDA Unified Registration and Listing System FWM Field Work Manager, including phases 1 and 2 GC Gas Chromatography

GFE Government-Furnished Equipment GFI Government-Furnished Information GFP Government-Furnished Property HHS Health and Human Services

HHSAR Health and Human Services Acquisition Regulations HP Hewlett-Packard IBR Integrated Baseline Review ICP Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma

ICT21 Information and Computer Technologies for the 21st Century IDB The ICP Database IDIQ Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity IEC International Electrotechnical Commission IMS Integrated Master Schedule

Instrumentation computer Laboratory instrumentation computers include computers that are used as instrument controllers separate from the actual instrument and stand-alone instruments.

IPR In-Progress Review ISO International Organization for Standardization IT Information Technology

ITIM Information technology Investment management JMS Java Message Service JSR Java Specification Requests

LA The Lab Assessment task order LabSAN Laboratory Storage Area Networks

LC Liquid Chromatography LIMS Laboratory Information Management System

LIMS COTS Laboratory Information Management System Commercial, Off-the-Shelf.

This refers to a solution that is either a COTS “suite” from a single vendor or a collection of COTS components from multiple vendors and/or custom code which, when fully and efficiently integrated, fulfills FDA enterprise and specifically ORA Laboratory and Field requirements.

LIMS Solution Laboratory Information Management System Solution. This refers to the amalgamation of the entire set of applications (both COTS and custom code), and interfaces that together meet the project’s requirements.

LOE Level of Effort LP 1 The Laboratory Pilot 1 task order LP 2 The Laboratory Pilot 2 task order

MARCS Mission Accomplishment and Regulatory Compliance Services MAT Master Approved Technologies MS Mass Spectrometer MS Microsoft

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology NRL Northeast Regional Laboratory, Jamaica, NY O&M The Operations and Maintenance task order OCIO Office of the Chief Information Officer, FDA OIM Office of Information Management, FDA OMB Office of Management and Budget, FDA OPC OLE for Process Control ORA Office of Regulatory Affairs, FDA ORM Office of Resource Management, FDA ORO Office of Regional Operations, FDA PAC Program Assignment Code PAF Problem Area Flag PC Personal Computer

PDF Portable Document Format PM Project Manager

PMP Project Management Plan PMTC The Program Management and Technical Coordination task order QMIS Quality Management Information System QMS Quality Management System RBIS Regulatory Business Information Services RMP Risk Management Plan RTM Requirements Tracking Matrix SDE Standardized Development Environment SME Subject Matter Expert SMG Staff Manual Guide SOA Service-Oriented Architecture

SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol SOW Statement of Work SRS System Requirements Specification SSO Single-Sign-On TO Task Order

UNIX Uniplexed Information Computing System, a computer operating system.

USC United States Code VMS Virtual Memory System, a computer operating system

WAAM Work Assignment and Accomplishment Manager WBS Work Breakdown Structure

WODC White Oak Data Center WRS White Oak Requirements Specification

WSRP Web Services for Remote Portlets XLS A document file extension referring to an MS Excel file.

XML Extended Markup Language