POTS Development and Solution Support

Purchasing Online Tracking System (POTS) assists with the submission and tracking of purchase orders through a Web-based system and facilitates the transactions between the end-users in each IC and the central NIH Business System (NBS). POTS is a role-based workflow system. The user administrators can configure the workflows for one or more approval processes based on the IC’s or organization unit’s needs easily.

It tracks the procurement life cycle of any types of purchases orders across scientific and administrative functionalities, from initial submission, approval, cancellation, status, through partial/final receiving, and acknowledgement of receipt for completed transactions of goods and/or services. POTS is expected to ensure the compliance with the requirements of the FAR and is used as a workload management and acquisition trending tool.