Contingency Plan

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First Definition

Contingency Plan – An alternative plan to be utilized in the event that the original plan is compromised, no longer available or the conditions surrounding the original plan have changed.

Second Definition

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Enterprise Performance Life Cycle Framework Practices Guide, a contingency plan (also known as disaster recovery) is a subset of Emergency Preparedness Planning [1]. Several agencies define contingency planning differently, but with the same overall theme:

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): A set of pre-planned guidelines intended to return business operations to working order in the event of an emergency, disaster, or a large systematic breakdown.
  • Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL): Pre-set procedures put in place during a disaster that that focus on recovery.
  • The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC): A pre-planned course of action/strategy that a business should follow in the event of a system failure of disaster.

References

  1. HHS. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Enterprise Performance Life Cycle Framework Practices Guide Contingency Plan http://www.hhs.gov/ocio/eplc/EPLC%20Archive%20Documents/36-Contingency-Disaster%20Recovery%20Plan/eplc_contingency_plan_practices_guide.pdf