“The Biden administration is moving forward with the transition from a nearly 50-year-old structure used to identify organizations doing business with the government to a new number with a new format, giving procurement officials in and out of government nine months to finish recoding and testing their systems.
The D-U-N-S, created by Dun & Bradstreet in 1962, has been the official entity verification number since it was codified in the Federal Acquisition Regulation in 1998. Since that time, every organization doing business with the government—contractors, grantees, universities, research centers, incubators, charities, etc.—has been issued a D-U-N-S number.
The General Services Administration, which administers the program, opened the contract to new vendors for the first time in 2018 and awarded the new contract in March 2019 to Ernst & Young, which will administer the new ID number, including managing the transition from Dun & Bradstreet…”
“A post Wednesday on GSA’s outreach site, Interact, clarified the cutover is now scheduled for April 4[, 2022], at which time no new D-U-N-S will be issued and the identifier will no longer be used or recognized by GSA systems.
The post also confirmed that all organizations with a D-U-N-S have now also been assigned a [Unique Entity ID (UEI)] and notes identifiers have been integrated into the various data feeds from the Integrated Award Environment, including ‘in SAM.gov APIs, data extracts, contract data reports and the FPDS Atom Feed.’
Federal contractors and grantees that had previously registered in the System for Award Management, or SAM, have ‘already been assigned a Unique Entity ID!’ the post states, noting users can view their new identifier under the entity registration record…” Read the full article here.
Source: GSA Gives Final Deadline for Transition from DUNS to Unique Entity ID – By Aaron Boyd, July 29, 2021. Nextgov.
