agencies during the period Government-wide savings goals 
are required to be issued pursuant to subsection (a). 
SEC. 103. AVOIDING DUPLICATIVE INFORMATION TECH-
NOLOGY INVESTMENTS. 
(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to im-
prove transparency in order to ensure that agencies avoid 
making duplicative information technology investments. 
(b) REPORTING POTENTIAL DUPLICATION.— 
(1) RESPONSIBILITY OF AGENCY CHIEF INFOR-
MATION OFFICERS.—Each agency chief information 
officer shall utilize existing or newly developed trans-
parency mechanisms to report to the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget, not later than 
six months after the date of enactment of this Act 
and at least annually thereafter, on the results of 
the agency’s efforts to identify and eliminate, where 
appropriate, each potentially duplicative information 
technology investment. 
(2) FUNCTIONS OF THE DIRECTOR.—Not later 
than 90 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall issue a policy requiring consistency 
among all agencies in identifying information tech-
nology investments in any required reporting, and 
such investments shall include applicable research 
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and development projects and mission-essential sys-
tems. 
SEC. 104. STRENGTHENING OVERSIGHT OF INFORMATION 
TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS. 
Section 11303(b) of title 40, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (5) as para-
graph (6); and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the fol-
lowing new paragraph (5): 
‘‘(5) ANALYSES
OF
INVESTMENTS
IN
OPER-
ATIONS AND MAINTENANCE.—The Director shall re-
quire each executive agency to develop a policy con-
sistent with OMB guidance for performing analysis 
on each operational/steady state information tech-
nology investment to measure how well the invest-
ment is achieving expected cost, schedule, perform-
ance, and other goals, and to determine whether the 
investment provides the most cost effective way of 
delivering business value. The agencies shall conduct 
these operational analyses on a yearly basis and 
shall report the results to the Director and through 
existing or newly developed transparency mecha-
nisms.’’. 
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SEC. 105. STRENGTHENING OVERSIGHT OF INFORMATION 
TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS. 
(a) IMPROVEMENT OF PORTFOLIOSTAT IMPLEMEN-
TATION.—Not later than six months after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget shall carry out the following, consistent 
with the recommendations of the Government Account-
ability Office in its report GAO–14–343SP (April 2014): 
(1) Issue guidance for the Secretaries of Agri-
culture, Commerce, Defense, Housing and Urban 
Development, the Interior, and Labor, and the agen-
cy heads of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Per-
sonnel Management, Small Business Administration, 
Social Security Administration, and U.S. Agency for 
International Development, to complete their com-
modity IT baselines (as part of PortfolioStat). 
(2) Require the Secretaries of Defense, Housing 
and Urban Development, the Interior, Labor, State, 
Transportation, and Veterans Affairs, and the agen-
cy heads of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
General Services Administration, National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration, Office of Per-
sonnel Management, Social Security Administration, 
and U.S. Agency for International Development, to 
report quarterly to the Director on each depart-
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ment’s or agency’s progress in the migration of two 
commodity IT areas (enterprise IT systems and IT 
infrastructure) to a shared service. 
(b) REQUIRED ACTIONS BY FEDERAL CHIEF INFOR-
MATION OFFICER.— 
(1) The Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall direct the Federal Chief Informa-
tion Officer to take the following actions, consistent 
with the recommendations of the Government Ac-
countability Office in its report GAO–14–343SP 
(April 2014) and as part of integrated data collec-
tion quarterly reporting: 
(A) Require that agencies— 
(i) describe the actions that have been 
taken to ensure the completeness of their 
commodity IT baseline information; and 
(ii) identify any limitation in such in-
formation. 
(B) Require agencies to report on the 
progress of their efforts to migrate two com-
modity IT areas (enterprise IT systems and IT 
infrastructure) to a shared service. 
(C) Require agencies to fully disclose any 
limitations their chief information officers 
might have in exercising the authorities and re-
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sponsibilities provided by law and the 2013 
PortfolioStat guidance of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget. 
(D) Require agencies to disclose the limita-
tions of any data reported (or disclose the pa-
rameters and assumptions of these data) on the 
agencies’ data consolidation efforts and associ-
ated cost savings and cost avoidance. 
(E) Require agencies to improve trans-
parency of and accountability for PortfolioStat 
by publicly disclosing planned and actual data 
consolidation efforts and related cost savings. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) 
PORTFOLIOSTAT.—The 
term 
‘‘PortfolioStat’’ refers to the initiative launched by 
the Office of Management and budget in March 
2012 to maximize the return on information tech-
nology investments across the Federal Government. 
(2) IT.—The term ‘‘IT’’ means information 
technology. 
SEC. 106. PROMOTION OF REVERSE AUCTIONS IN FEDERAL 
CONTRACTING. 
(a) REVISION OF FAR.—Not later than six months 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal 
Acquisition Regulation shall be revised to address reverse 
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auctions by Federal agencies, including how and when 
they should be used, the roles and responsibilities of con-
tracting officers, and what agencies should do if there is 
no interactive bidding during an auction. 
(b) GUIDANCE ON REVERSE AUCTIONS.—Not later 
than six months after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Director of Office of Management and Budget shall, 
consistent with the recommendations of the Government 
Accountability Office on reverse auctions in its report 
GAO–14–343SP (April 2014), issue Government-wide 
guidance— 
(1) advising agencies to collect and analyze data 
on the level of interactive bidding and, where appli-
cable, fees paid, to determine the cost effectiveness 
of using reverse auctions in the procurement of 
goods or services; and 
(2) on best practices to maximize competition 
and savings in the use of reverse auctions. 
SEC. 107. CREATION OF LONG-TERM STRATEGY FOR TAR-
GETED OWNERSHIP INVESTMENTS TO RE-
PLACE SOME HIGH-VALUE LEASES. 
Not later than six months after the date of the enact-
ment of the Act, the Administrator of General Services 
shall take the following actions pursuant to the rec-
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ommendations of the Government Accountability Office in 
its report GAO–14–343SP: 
(1) Develop and use criteria to rank and 
prioritize potential long-term ownership solutions to 
current high-value leases among other capital invest-
ments and use this ranking to create long-term cross 
agency strategy that facilitates consideration of tar-
geted investments in ownership. 
(2) Report to the appropriate congressional 
committees any leases above the prospectus thresh-
old that did not follow the congressional prospectus 
process and include in the lease prospectus a de-
scription of the length of time that an agency esti-
mates it will need the space, an historical account of 
how long the agency will need to make the leased 
space meet its mission. For the spaces for which an 
agency has a long-term projected need, also include 
an appropriate form of cost-to-lease versus cost-to- 
own alternatives analysis to facilitate the evaluation. 
Subtitle B—Data Center 
Consolidation 
SEC. 111. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this subtitle is to optimize Federal 
data center usage and efficiency. 
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SEC. 112. DEFINITIONS. 
In this subtitle: 
(1) FEDERAL DATA CENTER OPTIMIZATION INI-
TIATIVE.—The term ‘‘Federal Data Center Optimi-
zation Initiative’’ or the ‘‘Initiative’’ means the ini-
tiative developed and implemented by the Director, 
through the Federal Chief Information Officer, as 
required under section 113. 
(2) COVERED
AGENCY.—The term ‘‘covered 
agency’’ means any agency included in the Federal 
Data Center Optimization Initiative. 
(3) FEDERAL CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER.— 
The term ‘‘Federal Chief Information Officer’’ 
means the Administrator of the Office of Electronic 
Government established under section 3602 of title 
44, United States Code. 
(4) DATA CENTER.—The term ‘‘data center’’ 
means a closet, room, floor, or building for the stor-
age, management, and dissemination of data and in-
formation, as defined by the Federal Chief Informa-
tion Officer under guidance issued pursuant to this 
section. 
(5) FEDERAL DATA CENTER.—The term ‘‘Fed-
eral data center’’ means any data center of a cov-
ered agency used or operated by a covered agency, 
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by a contractor of a covered agency, or by another 
organization on behalf of a covered agency. 
(6) SERVER UTILIZATION.—The term ‘‘server 
utilization’’ refers to the activity level of a server rel-
ative to its maximum activity level, expressed as a 
percentage. 
(7) POWER USAGE EFFECTIVENESS.—The term 
‘‘power usage effectiveness’’ means the ratio ob-
tained by dividing the total amount of electricity and 
other power consumed in running a data center by 
the power consumed by the information and commu-
nications technology in the data center. 
SEC. 113. FEDERAL DATA CENTER OPTIMIZATION INITIA-
TIVE. 
(a) REQUIREMENT FOR INITIATIVE.—The Federal 
Chief Information Officer, in consultation with the chief 
information officers of covered agencies, shall develop and 
implement an initiative, to be known as the Federal Data 
Center Optimization Initiative, to optimize the usage and 
efficiency of Federal data centers by meeting the require-
ments of this Act and taking additional measures, as ap-
propriate. 
(b) REQUIREMENT
FOR PLAN.—Within 6 months 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal 
Chief Information Officer, in consultation with the chief 
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information officers of covered agencies, shall develop and 
submit to Congress a plan for implementation of the Ini-
tiative required by subsection (a) by each covered agency. 
In developing the plan, the Federal Chief Information Of-
ficer shall take into account the findings and recommenda-
tions of the Comptroller General review required by sec-
tion 115(e). 
(c) MATTERS COVERED.—The plan shall include— 
(1) descriptions of how covered agencies will 
use reductions in floor space, energy use, infrastruc-
ture, equipment, applications, personnel, increases in 
multiorganizational use, and other appropriate meth-
ods to meet the requirements of the initiative; and 
(2) appropriate consideration of shifting feder-
ally owned data centers to commercially owned data 
centers. 
SEC. 114. PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO 
DATA CENTER CONSOLIDATION. 
(a) SERVER UTILIZATION.—Each covered agency 
may use the following methods to achieve the maximum 
server utilization possible as determined by the Federal 
Chief Information Officer: 
(1) The closing of existing data centers that 
lack adequate server utilization, as determined by 
the Federal Chief Information Officer. If the agency 
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the Secretary shall submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees a report 
on the following: 
‘‘(I) INTEGRATED DATA REPOSI-
TORY.—Efforts to finalize plans and 
schedules for fully implementing and 
expanding the use of the Integrated 
Data Repository, including actions 
taken to finalize, implement, and 
manage plans for incorporating data 
into the Integrated Data Repository 
and actions taken to define measur-
able financial benefits expected from 
the implementation of the Integrated 
Data Repository. 
‘‘(II) ONE PROGRAM INTEGRITY 
SYSTEM.—Actions 
taken 
to 
plan, 
schedule, and conduct training on the 
One Program Integrity System, a 
Web-based portal and suite of soft-
ware tools used to analyze and extract 
data from the Integrated Data Repos-
itory, and actions taken to define 
measurable financial benefits expected 
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