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January 21, 2016 By AMK

DoD looks to joint licensing agreements to streamline acquisitions

As a budget-pressured Defense Department strives to improve efficiency and cut costs, it is increasingly turning to joint enterprise licensing agreements, known as JELAs.  Similar to the strategic sourcing model, a typical JELA involves several DoD organizations merging their requirements for a specific project or service into a single agreement that is carefully tailored to meet all of their needs.

JELAThe approach, which has gained momentum over the past three years, is designed to help DoD better leverage its buying power by requiring organizations with basically the same needs to enter into joint licensing agreements with one or several suppliers. A side benefit to JELAs is that they promote increased conformity and standardization across DoD organizations. “The branches have recognized that multiple applications and multiple iterations of the same application are wasteful, and they are looking to this as a way to get a handle on that,” stated Deltek Federal Analyst John Slye in a recent C4ISR & Networks editorial whitepaper, “DoD’s New Acquisition Model: Joint Enterprise Licensing.”

Keep reading this article at: http://www.federaltimes.com/story/military-tech/it/2015/12/30/dod-looks-jelas-streamline-acquisitions/78069680/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition reform, competition, cost savings, DISA, DoD, JELA, joint licensing, other than full and open competition, procurement reform, standardization, strategic sourcing

December 3, 2014 By AMK

Why did this federal lab pay 42 different prices for the same computer?

The Energy Department could save $2 million a year by better managing its information technology hardware, according to the agency’s inspector general.

One of the problems uncovered by the watchdog is a wide variation in the prices the department pays for the same technology across and even within agencies.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for instance, paid 42 different prices — between about $900 and over $2,000 — for the same desktop model in 2012, the IG found. The machines did, however, have varying configurations.

Since previous audits, the department has to some extent tried to standardize equipment buys, but IT purchasing remains problematic.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2014/11/year-federal-lab-paid-42-different-prices-same-computer/98237

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: cost and pricing, Energy Dept., IG, information technology, IT, standardization

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