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Procure to Pay (P2P) - Handshakes

P2P Requirements Overview for Data Exchanges

DPCAP and Comptroller are jointly developing standard procedures to address how the requirements, procurement, accounting, and entitling communities should conduct business across nine critical data exchanges (or “handshakes”) in the Procure to Pay (P2P) process. We have created the following overview, as well as supplemental standard operating procedures to provide additional detailed requirements for each data exchange. We envision continuing to create and update these operating procedures.

P2P Requirements Overview for Data Exchanges (Handshakes 1 – 9)

Handshake 1 – Purchase Request Creation and Funds Certification

Handshake 1 P2P SOP for Purchase Request Creation and Funds Certification

Handshake 1 Acknowledgement File Schema

Handshake 2 - Pre-Award Funds Validation

Handshake 2 Talk Back Schema V2.0

SLOA Validation Service Functional Description Document

Handshake 2 P2P SOP for Pre-Award Funds Validation

Handshake 2 Talk Back Schema Instructions

Handshake 2 Talk Back Schema V1.0

Handshake 2 Talk Back Purple Error Codes

Handshakes 3 & 4 - Distribution of Contract Actions to Financial Systems

Handshakes 3 & 4 P2P SOP for Distribution of Contract Actions to Financial Systems

Handshake 3 Handshake Receipt Notice Schema

Handshakes 5 & 6 - Distributing Receipt Acceptance and Electronic Receipt and Processing of Requests for Payment

Handshakes 5 & 6 SOP for Distributing Receipt Acceptance and Electronic Receipt and Processing of Requests for Payment

Handshakes 7 & 8 - Pay the Vendor and Record Disbursement and Report Payments to Treasury

Handshakes 7 & 8 P2P Memo for Pay the Vendor and Record Disbursement and Report Payments to Treasury

Handshakes 7 & 8 SOP for Pay the Vendor and Record Disbursement and Report Payments to Treasury

Handshake 9 - Distribution of Contract Completion Statements

Handshake 9 P2P Memo for Distribution of Contract Completion Statements

Handshake 9 P2P SOP for Distribution of Contract Completion Statements