Federal Compliance

• Developed using guidance provided by the Division of Cost Allocation (DCA) including the original OPAL Guidelines for Random Moment Sampling, the Department of Heath and Human Services (DHHS), and the DCA Best Practices Manual for Reviewing Public Assistance Cost Allocation Plans.
• Generates and sends e-mails and validations at the sample moment; compensates for multiple time zones
• Sample Summary by Funding Source Report provides the requisite summary report for federal reporting
• Terms used in DSN RMTS follow DCA guidelines
• Statistically valid random moment sample and sub-sample using random moment generator
• Case counts or other agreed upon methods for distributing effort among multiple funding sources can be included for allocation purposes

How a Random Moment Sample is Generated

• An Employee is randomly selected
• A moment (minute) between the start and end dates of the period is randomly selected
• If this moment is a designated holiday, another moment is selected
• If this moment does not fall into the employee's work schedule, another moment is selected
• This process is repeated until a valid moment for this employee is found
• When that happens, the random moment is created
• This process is repeated until the number of desired sample moments is achieved

DSN RMTS Security:

• DSN's RMTS Azure Environment is SOC TSP, ISO 27001:2013, and PCI DSS 3.2.1 compliant.
• DSN RMTS(c) websites are encrypted using 256bit encryption with 2048bit signing.
• Sample Response site uses 32 character random hexadecimal key that must match up with each sample and period id.
• Sample Response form links cannot be used for anything other than answering that specific sample.