5.3.1: Cost Savings and Cost Avoidance

Achievement of demonstrable benefits to the agency in cost savings and cost avoidance for IT investments. The agency should develop and submit an EA Program Results Analysis document clearly demonstrating the improvements to agency IT investment performance attributable to the EA program, and explain how the EA program activities resulted in cost savings, cost avoidance, and/or improved mission performance for the agency. The agency fulfills this requirement by demonstrating results in one of three ways: demonstrating the EA program has resulted in cost savings and/or cost avoidance; maintaining agency IT spending below a certain percentage of its overall discretionary budget authority; or achieving PART scores above a certain level. See criteria below for specific thresholds.

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Rationale: Effective enterprise architectures should identify opportunities for reuse, consolidation and standardization that result in improved financial performance for the agency. Higher levels of IT spending are justified when an agency is achieving superior levels of mission performance. Mandate: Clinger-Cohen Act, OMB Memorandum M-06-22, OMB Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART). Note: Agencies should submit evidence of maturity using the reporting format indicated in OMB Memorandum M-06-22.

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