Army Contract Writing System

Abstract

The Army Contract Writing System (ACWS) will be the Army's single, next-generation, enterprise-wide contract writing, management, execution, and close-out software system. ACWS will facilitate the standardization of Army Procurement business processes and streamline the integration with Army Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. As a financial feeder system, ACWS will meet the compliance requirements of the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996 (FFMIA). The system will meet the full scope of Army Contracting requirements, including those in secure and non-secure locations, those supporting combat or non-combat contingencies, those within or outside the borders of the Continental United States, those supporting grants and assistance agreements, and those performing weapons systems, construction, installation, and other specialized contracting activities. This is consistent with Undersecretary of Defense, Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (USD(AT&L)) Memorandum; Department of Defense (DoD) Functional Contract Writing and Administration, dated 21 October 2011, which directed each of the Services to develop a new contract writing system. Accordingly, Army received an OSD Deputy Chief Management Officer (DCMO) validated problem statement and the Army Acquisition Executive approved the ACWS Materiel Development Decision (MDD) on 29 October 2014. On 24 March 2016, the USD(AT&L) signed the program's RFP Release Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) which designated ACWS as an unbaselined, Major Automated Information System Acquisition Category IAM program, and approved the Army's request to release an RFP to industry to procure a Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) system.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
• Source ID: 0605047A_5_2040_PB_2019
• Change Summary Explanation: Following the selection of CGI Federal Inc. on 22 May 2017, ACWS was able to refine its schedule to reflect the SI's plan which achieves Full Deployment (FD) 20 months earlier than the Government's original initial plan (2 Releases vs 4 Releases) requiring funding earlier in the program. Required FY19 funding now supports all Release 1 software configuration, interface development, agile integrated testing, and preparing training and deployment teams in order to achieve Initial Operational Capability (IOC).
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Materials and Manufacturing Processes
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Army Procurement
• Best Practices
• Business Administration
• Contracts
• Department Of Defense
• Deployment
• Financial Management
• Governments
• Information Systems
• Knowledge Management
• Logistics
• Procurement
• Product Development
• Test And Evaluation
• Training
• United States

Readers

• Defense Financial Management and Audit.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Military Logistics and Supply Chain Management