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FPDS Federal Contract Award Data to be on beta.sam before Spring

Posted on by Eric Coffie
Get ready for the next big change…with the FedBizOpps transition done, the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) reporting tool, will be the next to migrate to GSA’s central contracting site. 

The General Services Administration (GSA)  is readying for the next major transition to its centralized federal contracting site: moving the reporting function of the contract awards database, the Federal Procurement Data System, or FPDS.

By March 16, the reporting tools on fpds.gov site will be transitioned over to a new “Data Bank” page on beta.SAM.gov. Other functionality, including “search, agency reporting, data extracts, etc.,” will continue to operate on fpds.gov, according to a transition fact sheet provided by GSA.

Read the full article at  here: https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2020/01/federal-contract-award-data-fpds-will-be-sam-spring/162646/

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Finally beta.Sam.gov turns on notifications feature for saved searches

Posted on by Eric Coffie

After the transition from FBO to beta.SAM.gov the government has been struggling with bringing back some of our favorite old features. Today I just learned that they finally added the notification alerts.

This is significant because up until now you had to keep checking beta.sam.gov for new projects.

Now under saved search you can click on notification bell and it will send out daily notifications at 9pm EST.

Beta Sam notification Update

While this is not a perfect solution it is a work around for now that allows you to not have to leave your Inbox to see if anything new was released.

For more information on the other features that were released check out the GSA website.