“The registration site for organizations doing business with the federal government will be migrating to the new central website for all procurement systems, allowing the latter to drop the “beta” designation and clear up some confusing nomenclature.”
“The System for Award Management, currently housed at SAM.gov, is used by federal contractors and grantees to register for the unique number used to identify the organization in official documents—similar to a Social Security number. The site, managed by the General Services Administration, shares a name with the agency’s developing central procurement hub, beta.SAM.gov.”
“GSA’s Integrated Award Environment program office has been working on consolidating all related procurement tools on a single website since 2018. The effort started with migrating the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, or CFDA, and Wage Determination Online, or WDOL, tools to beta.SAM, followed by two of the most-used acquisition tools in government.”
“Fiscal 2020 was bookended by the migrations of the Federal Business Opportunities, also known as FedBizOpps or FBO, site in November 2019 and the reporting functions of the Federal Procurement Data System, or FPDS, in October 2020. The sites allow users to search for open solicitations and contract awards, respectively.”
“With those transitions finalized, the program office set its sights on the legacy SAM.gov.”
“All of the functionalities on SAM.gov will be moved to beta.SAM.gov by April 26, at which time the current SAM.gov will be shuttered and beta.SAM.gov will lose the ‘beta’ and become the official registration site…” Read the full article here.
Source: GSA’s Central Procurement Hub Will Lose the ‘Beta’ in April – By Aaron Boyd, December 7, 2020. Nextgov.
