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                   CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

0                             COST ESTIMATE
                                                              September 29, 2017


                                 H.R. 3243
                     FITARA Enhancement Act of 2017

   As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
                                on July 19, 2017


H.R. 3243 would amend the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act
(FITARA) to permanently extend some expiring provisions. FITARA was enacted as part
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 and primarily made
changes to how the U.S. government buys and manages computer technology.
Specifically, the bill would extend the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative
(FDCCI), PortfolioStat reviews, and the information technology (IT) dashboard.

The FDCCI aims to reduce costs and save energy, PortfolioStat reviews are face-to-face
meeting between each agency's IT officers and the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), and the IT dashboard provides online details of federal information technology
spending. Information from OMB suggests that implementing those efforts costs a few
million dollars annually for agencies to produce the necessary information; however, OMB
expects that much of this work would continue regardless of the expiring authority to
conduct them. Thus, CBO estimates there would be no significant additional cost or
savings to continue those efforts under H.R. 3243.

Enacting the bill could affect direct spending by agencies not funded through annual
appropriations; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. CBO estimates, however, that
any net increase in spending by those agencies would not be significant. Enacting
H.R. 3243 would not affect revenues.

CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 3243 would not increase direct spending or on-budget
deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028.

H.R. 3243 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal
governments.

The CBO staff contacts for this estimate is Matthew Pickford. The estimate was approved
by H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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