Performance Based Studies Research Group

PIPS / PIRMS Projects

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New PIPS projects are added almost every week. If you're a current client with your own project webpages, or a vendor looking for proposal opportunities, you can subscribe to receive an email notification when a project is added or updated, for any or all PIPS clients.

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User Levels

The PBSRG has four distinct levels of user groups. Each user group has specific minimum requirements, which are shown in the Table 1 below.

#	Criteria	Platinum	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Number of years of PIPS implementation	4	2	2	1
	Acquired ASU license for PIPS material	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Number of personnel that have passed certification exam	2	1	0	0
	Minimum number of PIPS projects procured	15	10	5	1
	Minimum level of performance	90	90	90	80
	Attend ASU Annual Conference every year	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Co-authored paper on results of PIPS projects	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Member of the PBSRG Industry Advisory Group	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Member of CIB W117	Yes	Yes	No	No

Platinum Users - Assigned to the most elite PIPS user. Platinum users must have at least 4-years of experience testing the process on a significant number of projects. Platinum users are able to promote the process to other users based on their high level of expertise.

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Gold Users - Assigned to advanced users that are testing transforming their organization into a more efficient and accountable agency. Users have invested resources in education, training, research and licensing. Users have also coauthored and published papers to document their results.

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Silver Users - Assigned to intermediate users that have tested the process on at least 5 projects. Users do not have licensing material to use process on their own, but have at least 1 personnel that has passed the certification exam.

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Bronze Users - Typically assigned to new users or small organizations that do not procure a large number of project a year. Users may have very limited experience with the PIPS process.

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