Purpose

The PIEE MIPR module was built to electronically generate, coordinate, and route direct cite Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPRs) across departmental trading partners and increase the visibility of requirement packages for the end-line customer from start to finish. By featuring interfaces that support direct user input from web-browsers and external systems (such as accounting or purchase request generating systems), the capability enables various “plug-n-play” configurations to co-exist and accommodate differing maturity levels of each trading partners’ eCommerce tool sets.

PIEE MIPR is built on the Purchase Request Data Standard (PRDS). The PRDS represents an entire purchase request (PR) as discretely identifiable data elements in an XML structure. In addition to the necessary data on a PR, the PRDS is capable of transmitting the additional pieces of data found in a MIPR (DD form 448) and the MIPR Acceptance (DD-448-2). The PR is the source of much of the data used in contract award, and therefore defines the supplies or services to be delivered, paid for, and liquidated from the Department’s books.

PIEE’s adoption and adherence to the PRDS is critical to achieving transparency and traceability of expenditures. By producing standard outputs in PRDS format, PIEE aligns requirements throughout the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process to enable data accuracy and more accurate order fulfillment. Use of a standard PR data set will support the goals and objectives identified by the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics in his policy letter issued 14 January 2013.