Avum Wins $61 Million Army Contract Writing System (ACWS) Modernization Contract

Avum of Agoura Hills, California, has won a $61.1 million firm-fixed-price Army contract to sustain software, deliver new capabilities, refactor the Virtual Contracting Enterprise (VCE) business intelligence suite into a modern microservices architecture and deploy a secure contracting capability. The work supports the Army Contract Writing System (ACWS), the service’s enterprise platform for contract writing and administration. Army Contracting Command at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, made the award. Work will be performed in Agoura Hills, with an estimated completion date of Nov. 3, 2031.

Army Contract Writing System Details

Under the Army’s ACWS call for solutions, the contractor is responsible for maintaining, securing and improving the operating system while providing Tier 3 technical support for ACWS and VCE. That support includes resolving technical defects through the established service-desk structure and coordinating with the Defense Logistics Agency’s Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) hosting provider to preserve system operation and data integrity.

Avum’s VCE work will refactor the suite’s business intelligence capabilities into microservices. The broader ACWS requirement calls for integrating VCE capabilities and necessary data into a modernized contract-writing environment and moving away from legacy Java and .NET components. The Army’s industry questions and answers say ACWS is hosted in PIEE while VCE is hosted in cArmy; the Army’s goal is for the systems to operate on the same hosting platform.

The secure-contracting effort calls for a functional ACWS instance in a classified, Impact Level 6 environment, including the security authorization needed to operate it. The solicitation also seeks continued delivery of backlog capabilities, improved data exchange with financial and procurement systems, and evaluation of artificial intelligence and machine-learning tools for contracting workflows. The Army said any modernization must preserve the capabilities available to current users during a technology transition.

ACWS Modernization Background

ACWS is the Army’s enterprise-wide acquisition system for more than 9,000 contracting users worldwide, according to the solicitation. The Army retired its legacy Standard Procurement System in December 2025, making ACWS its primary contracting platform. An Army fact sheet reported more than 8,050 ACWS users at 300 U.S. and overseas sites and more than 86,500 completed contract actions as of April 2026.

The new award comes as the Army addresses technical debt in ACWS and considers how to bring VCE and paperless contract-file capabilities into a more unified system. In its industry responses, the Army described difficulties merging shared software baselines and integrating artificial intelligence with the current platform. It said it would consider either improvements to that platform or a different low-code solution, rather than mandate a replacement.

Award and Contractor Background

The Army received six bids for Avum’s award. Earlier ACWS work was awarded to CGI Federal in 2017; the solicitation’s contract history lists that award at $62.9 million through 2027 and describes software licensing, maintenance and support, VCE hosting, and initial ACWS implementation. The Army’s industry responses said a 30-day transition with the incumbent was planned if needed.

Avum also holds contracts for other federal acquisition systems. Its Navy electronic procurement systems portfolio coordination contract has a potential value of $96.4 million and runs through August 2028, while a Defense Health Agency acquisition lifecycle management tool contract has a potential value of $25.3 million and runs through November 2030.

This award was disclosed by the DoW in its daily press release. Additional contract details will be available on HigherGov in approximately 90 days under W519TC27CA019 after the contract is formally disclosed by the government.