Acquisition Approval Request Compliance Tool

A natural language processing (NLP) model was developed to utilize the text in procurement header and line descriptions within the USDA Integrated Acquisition System (IAS) to determine the likelihood that an award is IT-related, and therefore might require an AAR. The model uses the text characteristics for awards that have an AAR number entered into IAS and then calculates the probability of being IT-related for those procurements that did not have an AAR Number entered in IAS.