Review of Alleged Violation of VHA's Datawatch Data Pump Server Software License Agreement

We conducted this review to the determine the merits of an allegation the Veteran Health Administration (VHA) Procurement and Logistics Office purchased a single license for the Datawatch Corporation’s Data Pump server software, but had allegedly deployed the server software an additional 56 times, in violation of the user license agreement. We did not substantiate the allegation that the Datawatch licensing agreement for the Data Pump Server software had been violated. Our review indicated that a similarly named “datapump” software had been installed 56 times. However, IT installations were not using the Datawatch product. We concluded that VHA contracting staff inaccurately communicated to the Datawatch Chief Financial Officer (CFO) that the 56 “datapump” installations were using the Datawatch product. The Datawatch CFO concurred and considered the matter resolved. Because we did not substantiate the allegation, we closed this review without further action.