Department of War Enterprise Agreements Request for Information (RFI) Direct to Software Publisher versus Value Added Reseller N6600126RTBD22900

The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC PAC), in support of the Program Executive Office (PEO) Digital Enterprise Services (DES) Enterprise Agreement Services (EAS), is conducting market research to gather industry feedback from Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), Software Publishers (SP) and authorized software resellers in order to compare direct to OEM/SP enterprise agreements against value added reseller enterprise agreements for commercial software products and services and explore customary commercial practices therein. This market research is intended to support business decisions related to Department of Navy (DON) Enterprise Software Licensing (ESL) and Department of Defense (hereafter called Department of War (DOW)) Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI) procurement efforts.

The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC PAC), in support of the Program Executive Office (PEO) Digital Enterprise Services (DES) Enterprise Agreement Services (EAS), is conducting market research to gather industry feedback from Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), Software Publishers (SP) and authorized software resellers in order to compare direct to OEM/SP enterprise agreements against value added reseller enterprise agreements? for commercial software products and services and explore customary commercial practices therein. This market research is intended to support business decisions related to Department of Navy (DON) Enterprise Software Licensing (ESL) and Department of Defense (hereafter called Department of War (DOW)) Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI) procurement efforts. RFI Amendment 1 (AMD 1) is posted 25 March 2026 as follows: This RFI amendment adds Government responses to the questions from industry. In addition, the final submission instructions are amended to allow submission via e-mail as shown in the revised RFI instructions, attached.