No records are available to the general public. These reviews often contain sensitive information and can also influence new contract awards, therefore, only authorized government personnel have access to these records, along with the specific awardee. Data points include requirements compliance, meeting deadlines, reporting processes, integrity and business ethics, pricing and invoicing, and customer-service processes. Government decision-makers now use CPARS to review contractors’ performance under previously awarded contracts. The IAE is the centralized authoritative source for government contract award data and is merging ten separate contracting data systems under one umbrella. CPARS now serves as the federal report card system for prime contractors providing services and products to the U.S. federal government’s Integrated Award Environment ( IAE) has completed the merger of the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) with the Contract Performance Assessment Reporting System ( ).
