Overview

• What is the PIR?
• Who Will Use the PIR?
• Benefits of PIR to Federal Program Agencies (FPA's)
• Benefits of PIR to FMS

What is the PIR?

The Payment Information Repository (PIR) is a multi-year initiative that will create a centralized information repository for federal payment related data. The PIR is a Financial Management Service (FMS) effort aimed at improving and increasing the transparency of government payments, as well as streamlining the reporting of accounting classification information from Non-Treasury Disbursing Offices (NTDOs).

PIR is an information repository and business analytics solution. PIR will:

• Replace FMS CA$HLINK II functionality for disbursement transactions
• Support reporting of classification information to Governmentwide Accounting (GWA) for Non-Treasury Disbursing Offices (NTDO)
• Offer a centralized repository containing detailed and summarized records of payments transactions processed by all federal program agencies
• Provide business analytics and reporting capabilities on both summarized and detailed payment transactions
• Support reporting of payment transactions to USASpending.gov for the purpose of matching payment transactions to program appropriations

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Who will use PIR?

PIR will be used by the following groups:

• Non Treasury Disbursing Offices (NTDO) to access their voucher data previously accessed in CA$HLINK II and detailed payment transactions when they become a GWA Reporter
• Non Treasury Disbursing Offices (NTDO) and Treasury Disbursing Offices (TDO) to access the payments data analytics (available mid to late 2013)
• FMS management and business lines to obtain business intelligence about the payments transactions

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Benefits of PIR to Federal Program Agencies (FPA's)

With PIR, payments information will be available for FPA's to view from one source. PIR will:

• Provide a single, web-based system from which agencies can view disbursement information
• Supply FPA's with both summary and detail information on payment transactions in a single source
• Provide business analytics and GWA reporting on the payment transactions originating from the FPA

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Benefits of PIR to FMS

PIR will provide the following benefits to FMS:

• Assist FMS in managing the quality of incoming payment transactions and their associated classifications in support of GWA
• Make statistical and analytical reporting available, significantly improving the ability of the U.S. Treasury to more precisely manage its financial position and make informed decisions on payment trends

PIR is slated to become one of multiple information repositories that will provide information to the Financial Information Repository (FIR). While it is anticipated that business line specifics analytics and reporting will be conducted in the individual repositories, cross-business line analytics will be performed in the FIR.

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