DOE's Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) has designed the IT Acquisition: Enterprise-Wide Agreement (EWA) Program to develop and implement policies and procedures that support the identification, acquisition, oversight and compliance of enterprise licenses.   EWAs are Department-wide acquisitions of widely used commercial software.  The EWA Program has two core objectives to achieve the Program mission :

• Maximizing IT buying power and reducing total cost of ownership;
• Streamlining the IT total acquisition lifecycle.

The EWA Program applies a centralized, cross-functional, strategic enterprise software solutions approach.  The EWA Program leverages opportunities to create efficiencies and enhances the value of IT acquisition.  Benefits of the program include:

• Reducing duplicative enterprise-wide IT components.
• Promoting technical standardization.  
• Increasing  IT contract administration efficiencies.

• Improving  knowledge-sharing of IT acquisition best practices.

List of Current Enterprise-Wide Agreements

Please send questions regarding these agreements or candidate opportunities to the EWA IPT Mailbox. (EWAIPTMailbox@hq.doe.gov)

Implementing Strategic Sourcing: M-04-dated May 20, 2005

Integrated Contractor Purchasing Team (ICPT)

Complex-Wide Strategic Sourcing (CWSS) Program