3: Efficient Organization and Licensing Agreements

Implement the Most Efficient Organization and create Enterprise Licensing Agreements to consolidate services and save the Department and taxpayer money

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DOE continues to experience significant success with its internal E-Government initiatives. In a continual effort to become more effective and efficient, the Department has integrated E-Government efforts with the Department’s EA effort. The EA program will institutionalize semi-annual strategic portfolio reviews to ensure that the Department’s information technology investments are in line with its strategic goals and missions. As part of an overall IT acquisition framework, DOE seeks to leverage cost efficiencies achievable through consolidation of like requirements and by leveraging economies of scale from enterprise-wide licensing agreements. Department-wide acquisition for widely used commercial software across the enterprise, otherwise known as enterprise licensing, consolidates IT Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) software contracts. Integrating and building on existing capabilities within the Department, the Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) program will allow the Department to develop and enforce policies and procedures supporting the identification, acquisition, oversight and compliance of enterprise software agreements. The ELA program supports and complies with the Energy-Wide Strategic Sourcing (EWSS) program, Federal SmartBUY initiative, Clinger-Cohen, PMA, and other legislative and DOE policies. DOE achieves contract administration efficiencies by reducing multiple contracts to one. DOE negotiates a better price by leveraging the Department's total buying power thereby reducing total cost of ownership and cost for each individual user. By implementing these buying practices, acquisitions and support costs will be reduced, leading to the increase use of standards-compliant software.

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