U.S. army activates Army Contracting Agency.Army Secretary Thomas E. White officially activated the Army Contracting Agency (ACA ACA - Application Control Architecture ) recently in a ceremony at the Pentagon. The agency, which has been provisional since May, centralizes much of the Army's installation contracting activities under a single headquarters, and is part of the Army's overall effort to streamline its business and administrative processes. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. its establishing document, the ACA will reshape Army contracting in order to eliminate redundancies, reduce management overhead and realign re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. personnel to maximize efficiencies, improve quality of contracts, and ensure a small business emphasis. The agency will consist of two subordinate U.S. regions, five overseas contracting elements, an Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Commercial Contracting Center (ITEC ITEC Instituto de Tecnologia em Informática e Informação do Estado de Alagoas ITEC International Therapy Examination Council (UK) ITEC Internet Technology ITEC Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation ITEC Instructional Technologies 4), and a headquarters located in Falls Church Falls Church, independent city (1990 pop. 9,578), NE Va., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; inc. as a town 1875, as a city 1948. There is diverse light manufacturing, including telecommunications equipment. , Va. For staffing, contracting positions in the Army's major commands are being realigned under the ACA. No reductions in force (RIF Rif (rĭf) or Rif Atlas, range of the Atlas Mts., NE Morocco, NW Africa, curving along the Mediterranean coast from Ceuta to Melilla. Tidighin (8,056 ft/2,455 m) is the highest peak. ) or compulsory moves are planned. A key benefit of the ACA is its ability to centralize large buys (over $500,000) that are common Army wide to save money and avoid duplication. For example, the ITEC4 will give the Army an enterprise-wide buying capability for common use information technology items, and provides consolidated customer support for IT. As the ACA consolidates contracts to achieve savings, it will continue to provide maximum opportunities for small businesses to win Army contracts. The ACA implementation plan establishes a new Associate Director for Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (SADBU SADBU Small And Disadvantaged Business Utilization ) and strengthens the network of small business specialists located at each level within the ACA. The ACA concept plan maintains a chief of contracting at the installation level who serves as the principal business advisor to the garrison commander and the "single face" to installation customers for contracting support. Full implementation of the ACA is scheduled to be complete by FY06. |
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