The Standard Procurement System (SPS) is a standardized, automated procurement system used by the DoD acquisition community. Procurement Desktop Defense (PD2), the Standard Procurement Software, automates and streamlines the procurement process. SPS is helping to enable the integration of acquisition logistics and financial management by standardizing on a single procurement system. A key element in realizing the ultimate paperless goal is the implementation of DoD-wide interfaces that allow seamless flow of data between disparate systems.
UCS’s breadth of SPS programmatic services delivered requires our consultants to understand and comply with the appropriate DoD-approved architectures, programs, standards, and guidelines. UCS’s SPS clients include the following:
- Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED)
- Naval Medical Logistics Command (NMLC)
- Business Transformation Agency (BTA)
- Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
- Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
Systems Engineering: UCS’s engineering capabilities include evaluating existing systems, analyzing system data, creating standardized transaction sets, engineering protocols, and opening communication channels between systems, testing, evaluation, and deployment. UCS ensures all interfaces accurately track and report financial and logistical data throughout the budgeting, requisitioning, and contracting processes. We also develop requirements for the automated processes being built around SPS and provide expert advice to align the business process workflow for the entire SPS acquisition process.
Integration: UCS develops new integrations and interfaces with logistical and financial systems throughout DoD utilizing Adapter technology and WebMethods integration server products. UCS is responsible for ensuring the performance of more than 20 SPS interfaces with Service-level legacy systems. This includes the development, testing, and implementation of EDI integration with SPS, enabling electronic communication with DoD vendors and external systems.
Testing: UCS executes testing on both Legacy and NMCI network environments and benchmarks testing cycles with performance measurements and comparisons. In addition, all UCS SPS project teams are responsible for the development of new and regression testing scenarios that are systematically traced back to respective agency requirements. Each project executes and manages testing cycles to include Software Integration Testing (SIT) and Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) cycles.
Training: UCS conducts instructor-led classroom training sessions where all students have their own client machine to simulate the server and their own database to mimic their site settings. The classroom training session allow SAs to experience hands-on operation of the new system, operation of the new tools through exercises, and real-life simulation of errors that may arise on site and resolution measures.
Additional information: A Practical Approach to Enterprise Integration: DoD’s Standard Procurement System (PDF)
