Army Contracting Commandnational capital region ///// ACC-NCR supports customers’ requirements for a wide variety of products and services.
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he Army Contracting Command-National Capital Region (ACC-NCR) provides global contracting support to Warfighters through the full spectrum of military operations. Headquartered at Alexandria, Va., ACC-NCR, one of six major ACC contracting centers, provides global contracting support to Warfighters through the full spectrum of military operations. In accomplishing its critical, unusually demanding Army contracting mission, ACC-NCR’s contracting professionals award and manage thousands of contractual actions each year, managing Department of Defense (DoD) and Army high-visibility contract requirements. This includes contracting and acquisition support for Headquarters, Department of the Army staff, including the Army chief information office, and most DoD-level Pentagon tenants. Contracting support is also provided to designated key Army and joint information technology and related programs. ACC-NCR supports customers’ requirements for a wide variety of services – whatever Army and DoD customers in the Pentagon and NCR need to conduct their missions. Contract services include professional and educational support, training, Soldier support, fitness and well-being, and federally funded research and development. Information technology contracting requirements include enterprise licensing agreements, systems engineering, and other IT services. ACC-NCR supports small business programs and partnerships. History Prior to 2010, the Contracting Center of Excellence (CCE) in the Pentagon (Arlington, Va.) and the Information Technology, ECommerce and Commercial Contracting Center (ITEC4) in Alexandria, Va., with an office at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., were contracting organizations managed by the then-Army Contracting Agency. Reestablished as part of the Army Contracting Command – a new Army Materiel Command major subordinate command – CCE and
ITEC4 officially merged into one organization in April 2010, designated as the National Capital Region Contracting Center (NCRCC). NCRCC began addressing customers’ requirements with a new look at the way business challenges were addressed throughout the organization. A robust intern program also ensured continued augmentation of the NCRCC workforce. NCRCC focused on accomplishing its critical Army contracting mission (including DoD and Army high-visibility requirements), transition, reorganization, organizational integration, training, and relocating – all accomplished with scarce resources. In early 2011, the contracting organization at Fort Dix, N.J., was assigned as part of NCRCC, and the NCRCC Division located at Fort Huachuca was operationally transferred to ACC-Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., in January 2011. In April 2011 NCRCC was renamed the Army Contracting Command-National Capital Region, as part of an initiative to standardize the names of the ACC contracting centers. ACC-NCR leadership changes occurred mid-year, and an office move consolidated and reorganized ACCNCR Alexandria, Va. assets from two buildings into one, with staff reassigned to new teams, changing contracting responsibilities and customer alignments. With an extremely high volume of work facing ACC-NCR, the decision was made to shift contracting support for the Program Executive Office-Enterprise Information Systems, the center’s largest customer, to Rock Island, Ill. Effective Oct. 1, 2011, ACC-NCR and ACC-Fort Dix personnel were operationally transferred to the newly created ACC-New Jersey. Today a streamlined ACC-NCR continues the goal of building a contracting center with a professional workforce providing quality contracting solutions in support of the Warfighter – in the National Capital Region and worldwide. ACC-NCR continues to make strides in workforce skills improvement, customer support, recordkeeping, contract administration, and contract closeout – while focusing on effective and efficient ways to accomplish the challenges ahead.
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