diff --git a/mediachanger/MediaChangerFacade.cpp b/mediachanger/MediaChangerFacade.cpp
index 9322d4163a7e39eee2bae4b62a3516d5b2b514f7..297c10218d5b3ea4bed9b25f4c4d519dceceea60 100644
--- a/mediachanger/MediaChangerFacade.cpp
+++ b/mediachanger/MediaChangerFacade.cpp
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
  */
 
 #include "common/exception/Exception.hpp"
-#include "mediachanger/AcsProxyZmqSingleton.hpp"
 #include "mediachanger/MediaChangerFacade.hpp"
 
 namespace cta {
@@ -28,6 +27,7 @@ namespace mediachanger {
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 MediaChangerFacade::MediaChangerFacade(log::Logger &log, void *const zmqContext) throw():
   m_zmqContext(zmqContext),
+  m_acsProxy(zmqContext),
   m_mmcProxy(log) {
 }
 
@@ -94,12 +94,7 @@ MediaChangerProxy &MediaChangerFacade::getProxy(const TapeLibraryType libraryTyp
   try {
     switch(libraryType) {
     case TAPE_LIBRARY_TYPE_ACS:
-      // Using AcsProxyZmqSingleton instead of simply having a AcsProxyZmq
-      // member variable (e.g. m_acsProxy) in order to only instantiate an
-      // AcsProxyZmq object if necessary.  Instantiating such as object
-      // results in a one off memory leak related to ZMQ that would cause
-      // valgrind to fail on simple CTA unit-tests.
-      return AcsProxyZmqSingleton::instance(m_zmqContext);
+      return m_acsProxy;
     case TAPE_LIBRARY_TYPE_MANUAL:
       return m_mmcProxy;
     case TAPE_LIBRARY_TYPE_SCSI:
diff --git a/mediachanger/MediaChangerFacade.hpp b/mediachanger/MediaChangerFacade.hpp
index f2e918d3aca14b5150eb7e09492ec013c62e0787..6403200bdeaef33c80999b7772cad44b9b59ec65 100644
--- a/mediachanger/MediaChangerFacade.hpp
+++ b/mediachanger/MediaChangerFacade.hpp
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #include "common/log/Logger.hpp"
+#include "mediachanger/AcsProxyZmq.hpp"
 #include "mediachanger/LibrarySlot.hpp"
 #include "mediachanger/MediaChangerProxy.hpp"
 #include "mediachanger/MmcProxyLog.hpp"
@@ -100,6 +101,11 @@ private:
    */
   void *m_zmqContext;
 
+  /**
+   * ACS media changer proxy.
+   */
+  AcsProxyZmq m_acsProxy;
+
   /**
    * Manual media changer proxy.
    */