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DoD is proposing to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to incorporate price risk, item risk, and supplier risk factors into DFARS 252.213-7000, Notice to Prospective Suppliers on Use of Past Performance Information Retrieval System-Statistical Reporting in Past Performance Evaluations. The Past Performance Information Retrieval System-Statistical Reporting (PPIRS-SR) application provides objective, statistical information that can be used by contracting officers for evaluation of contractor quotations under simplified acquisition procedures.  This rule is necessary in order to align the DFARS with enhancements made to the PPIRS-SR application in 2016, enhancements that better enable DoD to evaluate supplier past performance in order to prevent the acquisition of counterfeit parts. PPIRS-SR captures historical pricing data from various sources to compute "average price" paid, applies a common statistical methodology to derive an expected cost range for previously procured items, and alerts contracting officers to items considered "high-risk" (i.e., the item to be procured has a critical use or is susceptible to counterfeiting).