Electronic Commerce for the Procurement of Construction and Architect-Engineer Services Implementing the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (1997) / Chapter Skim
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FASA realized Be far-reaching recommendations of two major studies, which ~emseIves built on many others a Department of Defense Isoelectronic commerce (EC) " refers to a paperless process, including electronic mail, electronic bulletin boards, electronic funds transfer, electronic data interchange, and similar techniques, for accomplishing business transactions.
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Symposium Scope The use of EC/EDI, particularly as envisioned by FASA and FARA, poses special challenges for both contractors and government in AE and construction contracting. Problem areas include the time it takes to transmit drawings electronically; the ways drawings can be secured from unauthorized changes, the ways to procure AE contracts electronically, given Mat these contracts have their own procedures and forms; the difficulties of involving In the FACNET system the many small contractors who do construction work of under $100,000, as well as the general difficulties that have been reported in implementing EC/EDI through FACNET.
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Within four months of its charge, DISA implemented an electronic commerce infias~ucture using existing DOD and civilian federal gateways to effect translation Dom other languages to ANSI X12. Various capabilities have since been added, including an encore massively parallel processor, to improve 3 ANSI the American National Standards Institute is the coordinator and clearinghouse for national standards in the United States.
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Extensive outreach efforts to assist contracting offices and their vendors, for example, in choosing commercial VANs, are being earned out with the help of the Electronic Commerce Resource Centers (ECRCs)
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Use of the bid sets should eliminate some paper processes (including expensive mailing and filing costs) , and enable greater lead times, just-in-time delivery, and efficient use of project data throughout the project life cycle.
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Additionally, NASA sites are linked to other Internet acquisition sites, and will be linked to FACNET shortly. NASA continually improves NAIS in light of both customer feedback, which is encouraged via the system's e-mail capability, and commercial market developments.
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However, while commercial electronic commerce is already integrated in industry practices, the professional societies, such as the American Institute of Architects and He Associated General Contractors of America, have not been much involved to date. Like many agency representatives, symposium participants from the private sector emphasized the importance of following and capitalizing on the fast-paced developments in the commercial world of electronic commerce.
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