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awk is always trying to interpret $<something> as a field value (e.g. $3)

Pass directory name via variable:

awk -v dir="$TRANSDIR" '/FILE-HDRPQ/{x=substr ($0,11,6)} NR>1{print $0 > dir"/"x"_prchgrpt.txt";}' "$TRANSDIR/$prcfile"