Basic TAMP Outline

The Basic TAMP Outline should reflect the minimum requirements established by federal rules. This outline contains guidance on the following sections:

1. Introduction
   The introduction section of your TAMP orients your reader to the purpose, goals, and contents of the document. It includes an overview of your agency’s mission and goals, and a high-level description of your agency’s assets and their role in serving your customers, serving the economy, and creating vital communities.
2. Inventory and Condition
   The Inventory and Condition section of your TAMP provides an overview of the assets your agency is responsible for, and a high level description of the current conditions of those assets (e.g. materials, components, age, condition rating, and replacement value).
3. Objectives and Measures
   The Objectives and Measures section of your TAMP provides an overview of the measures that you are using to track and manage your assets’ performance.
4. Performance Assessment
   The Performance Assessment section of your TAMP describes how your agency is doing with respect to measures, objectives and level of service goals that relate to asset management.
5. Lifecycle Planning
   The Lifecycle Planning section of your TAMP describes your agency’s process for management of the lifecycle of your assets.
6. Risk Management
   The Risk Management section of your TAMP will discuss the concept of risk, how your agency has incorporated it into TAM, and the ways in which the consideration of risk informs maintenance practices, asset replacement or rehabilitation, and emergency response.
7. Financial Plan
   The Financial Plan section of your TAMP includes details of the funding available for TAM activities, and the how it has been programmed, to date.
8. Asset Valuation**
   The Asset Valuation section of your TAMP provides a description of how your agency determines the value of your assets. It also includes the current, estimated value of your assets.
9. Investment Strategies
   The Investment Strategies section of your TAMP describes the process by which your agency translates your data, objectives, measures and policies into decisions about how to spend its constrained resources.
10. Process Improvements
    The Process Improvements section of your TAMP provides a description of any methods in which your agency is engaged that are designed to measure, and provide input for improvements, to your TAM practice.

The Basic TAMP Outline includes guidance and links to example TAMPs within each section to assist in TAMP development.
**Note that although an asset valuation is a required analysis under federal rules, this analysis is typically presented as part of another required analysis (e.g. inventory and conditions).