“Come Monday, the General Services Administration’s central procurement website, beta.SAM.gov, will get a new look, shuffling and tightening the image and feel of the site in response to years of user feedback.
The design update scheduled for April 26 is the first of a two-step process that will end in the merger of beta.SAM and the original SAM.gov—the site that hosts the System for Award Management registration function, required for all organizations contracting with or receiving grants from the federal government. At that time—currently set for May 24—SAM.gov will be retired and beta.SAM will lose the ‘beta,’ become SAM.gov and subsume all of the legacy SAM functionality…”
“Much of the update will be cosmetic—such as rebranding the assistance link from ‘Learning Center’ to ‘Help’—but are designed to improve the user experience.
Christy Hermansen, design lead for GSA’s Integrated Award Environment] said IAE received nearly 35,000 comments through the feedback tool on the website, many of which were incorporated into the upcoming update. One of those changes was to move the feedback tool, itself, which was on the side rail but will move to the footer come Monday…’
“The most notable change will be to the homepage, which will lose the large graphic at the top and move the tools—like Contract Opportunities, formerly FedBizOpps, and the other sites that have been migrated in—higher up, so users will no longer have to scroll down to reach them…” Read the full article here.
Source: Design Changes Coming Soon to beta.SAM – By Aaron Boyd, April 21, 2021. Nextgov.
