The delays have gotten so bad with the transition to the new unique entity identifier (UEI) on SAM.gov that the Defense Department isn’t requiring contractors to have a new number to do business with them for the next six weeks.
The Defense Pricing and Contracting office issued a deviation to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) on Sept. 8 that allows the services and defense agencies to do business with companies who aren’t fully registered in the governmentwide acquisition system.
The deviation stated that contracting officers can apply a section of the FAR that lets them to move forward with an acquisition “when an offeror can prove it has initiated or attempted to start the SAM registration process. These procedures allow the offeror to not be actively registered in SAM until 30 days after award or the date of its first invoice, whichever comes first.” … Read the full article here.
