If you maintain your company’s entity registration in the System for Award Management (SAM), you’ve seen the “Size Metrics” page that asks for your company’s average annual receipts and number of employees. Entering accurate information on this page is critical, as it determines whether your company qualifies as a small business in the industries you … Read more
The following notice is from the GSA: Dear industry partners and stakeholders, FBO.gov is going to retire in November, 2019. Please register here for a virtual webinar about the upcoming decommissioning of FBO.gov. The program will be held on Thursday, October 17 at 1:00 PM EDT. You must pre-register to join the event. The Integrated … Read more
If you’ve logged into the System for Award Management (SAM) at all in the past 14 months, you know that it’s a bit more challenging to log in than it used to be. This is for your own protection, but all these extra layers of security can seem pretty daunting, especially if you aren’t comfortable … Read more
The following notice is from the GSA: As you might have heard by now, FedBizOps.gov (FBO.gov) is set to decommission on November 8, 2019. The decommission of the system and the migration of federal opportunities into beta.SAM.gov will mark IAE’s third system decommission recently (joining CDFA.gov and WDOL.gov). It’s all part of our ongoing effort … Read more
GSA’s Integrated Award Environment (IAE) team held a stakeholder forum (“industry day”) yesterday to provide an update to interested parties on the latest happenings with the beta.SAM.gov project. I’ll touch on some of the highlights here: beta.SAM.gov is now the official source for wage determinations Last week (on June 14), GSA decommissioned WDOL.gov and made beta.SAM.gov … Read more
Small businesses that sell products or services to the Federal government are routinely being taken advantage of by companies that charge them to register in System for Award Management (SAM). SAM is administered by the US General Services Administration (GSA). Launched in July of 2012, SAM combined the various federal government certifications and registrations, necessary … Read more