Enterprise license agreements had not been effectively used
by the Department of Energy (Department) for managing
the acquisition and maintenance of desktop software across
the complex. Specifically, the Department had not taken
full advantage of existing software agreements and had not
established new agreements for commonly used
applications. In addition, five of the sites we reviewed
acquired and paid annual maintenance fees for software
that was never used. Other sites could not always track and
document the extent to which they used acquired software
licenses
