The Standard Procurement System (SPS) is a software suite developed during the 1990s, which provides front-office business services for acquisition professionals in the United States Department of Defense.
The software is licensed rather than purchased outright, and at the time marked a major shift in acquisition strategy for DoD.
While DoD had previous experience in licensing software, it largely revolved around either desktop computing (operating systems, office automation products, etc.)
SPS is a business system and is licensed for 43,000 contracting officers and other acquisition professionals at DoD sites world-wide.
[4] By 2008, SPS had been deployed on more than 23,000 desktops worldwide, and processed more than $131 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2006, up from $59.0 billion in FY 2004 [5] In 2020, the DoD Standard Procurement System (SPS), deployed using the Procurement Desktop-Defense (PD2) application was still widely in use by many agencies, although the change in technology environment and age led to intent to sunset, which was pushed out to at least 2020.