Glossary
Terms used in the Procurement DCC Dashboard.
- PIID
- Procurement Instrument Identifier — a display ID;
award_keyis the global key. - POP
- Period of performance (current and potential end dates).
- Obligation
- Funds legally committed; tracked as signed deltas per action.
- Outlay
- Reported payment; not a burn rate.
- Parent vehicle
- IDV/BPA under which an order is placed; context only.
- Funding / awarding office
- Office paying for vs office awarding the action — distinct roles.
- Deep case
- A full-lifecycle synthetic case with ~20 evidence documents and scored readiness.
- Baseline case
- A 3-document synthetic training fixture, never scored.
- Canonical
- The single authoritative evidence instance for a requirement.
- Handoff
- Transfer of work to a receiving role that must explicitly accept.
- Disposition
- The human decision on a reconciliation mismatch.
- Locked clock
- Fixed demo time (CBP 8 Oct 2026; baseline 18 Aug 2026) so results are deterministic.
- Ghost fixture
- The synthetic DHS baseline scenario
GHO-PDCC-DHS-CSO-001. - CLIN
- Contract line item number.
- COR / CO
- Contracting Officer’s Representative / Contracting Officer.
- HCA
- Head of Contracting Activity.
- Sigma
- The governed intelligence assistant.
Related guides
Procurement DCC Dashboard overview
The PEEK Procurement Digital Command Center dashboard: a CBP acquisition control tower over public USAspending awards and synthetic workflow cases, plus the DHS baseline contract fixture.
Data lanes: public USAspending vs synthetic
What the public reference sample and the synthetic workflow population contain, how they link, and what public records can and cannot tell you.