SAMOSA Act reintroduced.
Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets (SAMOSA) Act
- This act would make agencies conduct comprehensive software inventories and undergo independent assessments of management practices and contracts.
- Force agencies to adopt agreements in order to improve costs and negotiating power against vendors
- Each agency must use the information developed pursuant to the assessment to develop a plan for the agency to (1) consolidate software licenses of the agency; and (2) adopt enterprise license agreements across the agency by type or category of software in order to improve the performance of, and reduce unnecessary costs across, the agency.
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Agency software purchasing bill reintroduced by House Oversight members