ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (March 11, 2026) – The U.S. Army is optimizing its procurement strategy to more effectively leverage enterprise-wide buying power through the expanded use of enterprise contracts, while maintaining a robust competitive environment where vendors still compete for Army requirements.
Comparable to "buying in bulk," enterprise contracts allow the government to purchase large quantities of technology or services under a single unified contract. These contracts will maximize the Army’s procurement dollars by eliminating redundant processes, avoiding the complexities and overhead of multiple individual contracts.
“This is just common sense. Why would we keep buying the same things from the same vendors at different prices and terms? Let’s work smarter, not harder,” said Danielle Moyer, executive director, Army Contracting Command – Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG). “We are shifting from just processing transactions to making strategic decisions that have a massive ripple effect.”
Over the last eight months – and with each action completed in just weeks – the Army has awarded 14 enterprise contracts, a move that has yielded significant benefits. By consolidating 118 separate contracts into these 14 enterprise agreements, the Army has achieved an 88% reduction in the total number of contracts. This consolidation is a strategic effort to reduce thousands of manhours and millions of dollars on both the government and industry teams and saves the taxpayer.
"Our strategic shift to enterprise contracts is fundamental to how we modernize the force. By consolidating hundreds of disparate contracts, we are leveraging the Army's buying power at an enterprise scale, which has potential to yield billions in taxpayer savings and streamline acquisition processes,” said HON Brent Ingraham, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology.
Enterprise contracts are strategically structured with pre-negotiated terms and pricing to avoid lengthy and redundant negotiations. This allows orders to be placed as soon as a vendor is selected through a competitive process, or once a sole source justification is approved.
Additionally, enterprise contracts offer commercial products and services through an individually priced or “à la carte” style menu, ensuring the government (i.e. program manager) has the flexibility to purchase exactly what they need.
This strategic approach does not reduce competition for government requirements but rather focuses on streamlining existing commercial solutions. Future orders outside of what was initially consolidated from existing contracts and agreements are subject to competition.
“We use our collective buying power to negotiate significant discounts and overall spend discounts. This means you don’t have to spend months haggling over terms and prices; they are pre-negotiated and available to everyone, and we don’t charge any fees to use it,” Moyer said. “It creates fairness and predictability across all parties and avoids industry having to answer the same questions to different contracting officers within the Army on the same product they sell over and over.”
Establishing an enterprise contract benefits the Army by enabling increased transparency into all contract transactions, consistent pricing and terms and conditions across all customers, and the ability to leverage total volume/spend to obtain even deeper discounts. These efforts could save the Army up to $5.3 billion over the life of the initial enterprise contracts.
These contracts also eliminate “pass-through” costs between prime and subcontractors where it makes sense by going directly to the vendor to purchase.
“When it comes to software, we’re seeing significant efficiencies with our enterprise license contracts,” said Miranda Coleman, acting capability program executive for enterprise software and services. “These are vehicles we are putting in place to streamline procurement, reduce costs, and ensure consistent access to the tools our teams need to drive speed, efficiency and excellence.”
Based on responses to requests for information posted in August 2025 and January 2026, this next phase is expected to consolidate hundreds more contracts, continuing the drive for greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
“We will continue to aggressively expand this model across the force, especially for our most critical software and digital platforms, as it is essential to driving modernization and delivering predictable, rapid capabilities into the hands of our warfighters,” said Leo Garciga, the Army chief information officer.
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