With FedBizOpps shuttered and shifted to beta.SAM.gov, the General Services Administration 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.
As with the FedBizOpps transition, users will need to create an account through Login.gov, or use an existing account through that service. If users sign up for Login.gov with the same email address they used for the FPDS account, most of their saved data should transition to the new site, according to a post on GSA’s outreach site Interact.
The transition should be seamless for users who run “administrative, standard or static reports” through the current FPDS, GSA officials said. However, users who run “ad hoc reports” should take steps to ensure they will get needed information through the new Data Bank page.
“We recommend at this time that you review your current saved FPDS reports and note attributes and filters for reference in case you need to recreate a r ..
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