Contract Writing System

Abstract

The Army Contract Writing System (ACWS) will be the Army's 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 full scope of Army contracting requirements, including those in secure and non-secure locations, those supporting combat or noncombat 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, other specialized contracting activities, and the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996. Army pivoted to a Portfolio Approach that leverages existing Appian-based contract writing technology, maximizes share-ability and reuse across the DoD which minimizes the development effort, and includes iterative design, development and testing for the remaining Army-unique capability. The development portion of the approach includes on boarding USDA resources to act as the system integrator (SI) and leveraging Interagency Agreements (IAA). The existing capabilities that the Army intends to leverage include Virtual Contracting Enterprise (VCE), functionality within the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE), System for Award Management (SAM), and other existing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) programs. The Army will also leverage the PIEE for ACWS hosting, with other DoD Service contract writing systems. In FY2024 the program will continue ramping up resources to develop installation contracting capability for sites supporting General Funds Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) customers, non-FAR functionality (Grants, Coopertive Agreements, and Other Transaction Authority (OTAs)) and construction contracting capability. This effort is enabled by the development on the GFEBS interface and the Corps of Engineers Financial Management System (CEFMS) interface. This capability is necessary to displace the Standard Procurement System (SPS) and the Procurement Automated Data and Document System (PADDS). FY2023 RDTE funding supports accreditation of the software and hosting environment, release of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) which provides users current Contracting Information Technology capability (CON-IT) that enables the user to generate a solicitation, award, and modify documents in Uniform Contract Format (UCF). Initial deployment includes a sub-set of users from the National Guard Bureau and 411th Contracting Support Brigade. This funding also supports on-board of USDA resources and development of capabilities aligned to FY2023. FY2024 RDTE Funding supports development of required functionality for contract administration and contract award, systems integration with CEFMS, Resident Management System (RMS), Logistics Modernization Program (LMP) and audit compliance. The system will add additional capability for complex weapons system contracting. This development is required to expand system use to remaining National Guard Users and Joint Base Activities, Corps of Engineers, Army Contracting Centers, as well as Depot users in FY2025. This funding also supports the implementation of a Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline with automated testing capability.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2024
Source ID
0605047A_5_2040_PB_2024
Change Summary Explanation
FY2022 RDTE of $7.162M rescinded as part of the FY2023 Appropriation language and not available for execution. In FY2024 the program will continue ramping up resources to develop installation contracting capability for sites supporting General Funds Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) customers, non-FAR functionality (Grants, Coopertive Agreements, and Other Transaction Authority (OTAs)) and construction contracting capability. This effort is enabled by the development on the GFEBS interface and the Corps of Engineers Financial Management System (CEFMS) interface. This capability is necessary to displace the Standard Procurement System (SPS) and the Procurement Automated Data and Document System (PADDS).
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Kinetic Weapons

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agile Software Development
  • Army Procurement
  • Contract Administration
  • Contracts
  • Deployment
  • Financial Management
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligent Automation
  • Life Cycles
  • Logistics
  • National Guard
  • Procurement
  • Product Development
  • Program Management
  • Risk Management
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy

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