CBP to Create Collections System in ACE After Considering Alternatives
CBP will debut a new collections system in ACE, despite some rumblings in a recent Government Accountability Office report that the agency may pursue other options (see 1803150014), CBP Office of Trade Executive Assistant Commissioner Brenda Smith said in an…
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April 11 interview. CBP did explore alternatives as part of its routine decision-making process, including whether to keep collections in its legacy Automated Commercial System mainframe system or give collections its own separate development focus “from an acquisition perspective,” Smith said. But the obvious option was to finish collections in ACE, and other considerations were part of routine internal discussions with the goal of “making sure that we got the right answer,” she said. CBP is still working through the ACE collections development process, after facing issues that have turned out to be “more complex than we realized,” Smith said. But the eventual deployment will be an “internal financial system piece,” and CBP is “comfortable that ACE as a public-facing system is done,” she said.