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Joint Governance Meeting 11/30/17beta.SAM.gov | For People Who Make, Receive, and Manage Federal Awards

Stakeholder Forum

1Stakeholder Forum 18beta.SAM.gov | For People Who Make, Receive, and Manage Federal Awards

IAE Staff:

Judith Zawatsky, Assistant CommissionerVicky Niblett, Deputy Assistant Commissioner

March 19, 2019

Stakeholder Forum 18beta.SAM.gov | For People Who Make, Receive, and Manage Federal Awards

Federal Marketplace Strategy

Commercial Platforms

(Led by Laura Stanton, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Integrated Technology Category)

Catalog Management(Led by Dena McLaughlin,

Regional Commissioner, Region 3)

Contract WritingSystem

(Led by Becky Koses, Director, Office of Acquisition Operations, Office of Travel, Transportation

& Logistics)

MAS Transformation

(Consolidation of Schedules)(Led by Stephanie Shutt,

Director, MAS PMO)

Four Cornerstone Initiatives


Easy. Efficient. Modern


The IAE Systems

We Are Connected To Our Users


▪ The beta.SAM.gov learning center

▪ Feedback tool on beta.SAM.gov

▪ Quarterly community outreach events

▪ Blogs and up-to-date news stories about

beta.SAM.gov on interact.gsa.gov

▪ Quarterly IAE newsletters

▪ Focus groups with 900+ users

▪ Alpha testing with 800+ users

▪ Reducing barriers for doing business with the Government

▪ Increasing transparency into federal spending▪ Increasing accountability in the award process▪ Reducing reporting burden▪ Increasing data quality and integrity

SAM.gov Modernization


beta.SAM.gov is now operational, launched in Q4 FY17.

Current operational systems will run in parallel to the beta site and will remain the authoritative sources until they are decommissioned.

beta.SAM.gov will eventually become SAM.gov.

beta.SAM.gov


One website for people who make, receive, and manage federal awards

Industry Day 18beta.SAM.gov | For People Who Make, Receive, and Manage Federal Awards

How is beta.SAM.gov Organized?

Search

Learning Center

Workspace

Data Services

Data Bank (Coming Soon)

Future State• Find contract

opportunities*• Extracts and APIs

available for public

• Find federal assistance• Look up wage rates*

• Find registered vendors*• Save searches

• Download search results• Get featured search results

• Run required reports• Track and measure

compliance

• Analyze contract opportunities and data

• Analyze entity data• Save and download

reports

• Explore our video tutorials, FAQs, quick start guides, and glossary

• Search online help• Discover additional

resources

• Access your saved searches, requests, and notifications

• Administer your organization and users

• Manage your assistance listings

• Connect to our web services

• Integrate with our data feeds

• Download our data extracts

● Post your contract opportunities, register your entity, report your sub-awards, manage your past performance

* Not yet the authoritative source

● Read featured articles● Find new content (more videos, FAQ,

glossary terms are coming!)

Public Data Sets Available in beta.SAM.gov

Assistance Listings

Contract Opportunities

Wage Determinations

Contract Data

Entity Information



How to Search

● Search through each award domain separately or across all domains at once with a single search tool

● Easy to understand display● More consistent results with award data

filtering options

● Sort search results by title or date modified● Search by keyword or ID (ex: DUNS, contract

number)● Find comprehensive data about an entity

with a single search

Wage Determination

WDOL Decommissioning

User Training(Communications and

Outreach)Go Live

WDOL Decommissions

Q2 FY19

Q2 FY19 Q3 FY19Q3 FY19

Q2FY19 Q3FY19

Jan Feb Mar Apr May June

Alpha Testing(Concludes March 12)

TESTING


Governance Vote

Preparing for WDOL.gov

Retirement • Monitor IAE communications and the WDOL.gov website for announcements about the transition

• A login.gov account is required to use the “Follow” button on beta.SAM.gov to “watch” specific wage determinations

• Learn about new functionality in the Learning Center

Subscriptions will not be migrated from WDOL.gov to beta.SAM.gov


Contract Opportunities

FBO Decommissioning

User TestingInterface Testing

User Training(Communications and

Outreach)

Role MigrationBegins

Interface Validation Ending

Data Entry Opens/FBO Decommissions

Q2 FY19 Q3 FY19 Q4 FY19 Q1 FY20 Q1 FY20

TESTING TESTING TESTING

Preparing for FBO.gov

Retirement

• Monitor the FBO.gov website for announcements about the transition.

• Create new account to use the “Follow” button on beta.SAM.gov to “watch” procurements .

• Create and save searches and follows you frequently use prior to the transition.

• Learn about new functionality in the Learning Center.

• Make agency tech teams aware of the upcoming changes to interfaces and extracts

Search agents and watch lists will not be migrated from FBO.gov to beta.SAM.gov

Contract Opportunities in beta.SAM.gov ● Improved search

○ Search for opportunities by keywords, filters, and sorting to narrow results

● Interested Vendor List functionality ○ Ability to sort, search, and export the list

based on permissions● New Contract Opportunities display page

○ A clear history○ Track changes○ Consolidated format○ Additional relationships tracked

● FBO reports for government users● Government Testing of Web Services/APIs is

ongoing

Login.gov


GSA will utilize login.gov for beta.SAM.gov:● Beta.SAM.gov will migrate first.● FBO users will go directly to login.gov at

migration.● If entities and government users have an

account in SAM.gov they will not need to create a new one.

New Improved Sign-In Feature

● Improved user experience● No OTP for government users using CAC/PIV● SMS only for security code ● Easier initial account setup process

How We will Help Industry Users

● Training/Comms○ Comms to TIC, ACT/IAC Small Business Alliance, APTAC, FDP,

PSC. etc..○ Webinars - recorded and posted○ Learning Center links○ How to Videos (short and function specific)○ Quick Start Guides○ FAQs generated from testing and other feedback○ URL Redirect

■ Users redirected to splash page when searching for decommissioned website

■ Then auto redirect from splash page to beta.SAM.gov■ Alerts and other messaging on legacy systems and

beta.SAM.gov■ Many features are available prior to cutover

How we’re helping

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• Learn the ins and out of the new search (narrow down your search using domains, agency picker, categories, dates, location)

• Create an account, create saved searches and follow assistance listings, contracting opportunities, contract awards

• Check out your workspace

• Download extracts and APIs in data services

• Visit the learning center

• Provide your comments using the Feedback button

• Participate in the alpha testing by signing up at [email protected]

Engage: Be Part of the Transition Today

beta.SAM.gov | For People Who Make, Receive, and Manage Federal Awards

Contact InformationThe Integrated Award Environment

GSA Federal Acquisition Service1800 F Street NW, Washington, D.C.

[email protected]

To Get Involved: https://interact.gsa.gov/group/integrated-award-environment-iae-industry-community

For Developers to Stay Involved:http://gsa.github.io/openIAE


Additional Questions?

https://interact.gsa.gov/group/integrated-award-environment-iae-industry-community

http://gsa.github.io/openIAE

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