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. Based on Army Senior leadership direction, the Army pivoted to a Portfolio Approach that leverages existing technologies, maximizes share-ability and reuse across the DoD, and includes iterative design, development and testing for the remaining capability required for Army users. The overall approach includes on boarding United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) resources to act as the system integrator (SI), leveraging an Interagency Agreement (IAA) and using existing capabilities across DoD in order to minimize the development effort. To meet requirements, ACWS leverages functionality from Air Force's Contracting Information Technology (CON-IT), Army's Virtual Contracting Enterprise (VCE), DoD's Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE), GSA's System for Award Management (SAM), and other existing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) programs for an integrated Army system to enable decommission of Standard Procurement System (SPS) and Procurement Automated Data and Document System (PADDS). This approach enables contracting business intelligence and analysis. The Army is collaborating with the USDA Enterprise Application Services using IAAs to support development and delivery. The program has transitioned to the Agile development framework and conducted a discovery (risk reduction) effort in 2022, which informed development and resource requirements. The pivot implements Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) to support iterative development, testing and deployment to provide a flexible system responsive to warfighter needs. FY 2025 Base funding in the amount of $9.276 million supports development of required functionality for source selection, vendor portal, Foreign Military Sales, Workload assignment & Strategic sourcing, and additional functionality for pre and post award management. This functionality is required to complete functional stakeholder requirements for full deployment, expand system use to remaining National Guard Users and Joint Base Activities, Corps of Engineers, Army Contracting Centers, as well as Depot users in FY 2025, and to sunset the legacy SPS and PADDS.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- FA7_0605047A_5_2040_PB_2025
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