On Saturday, the four reporting functions of the Federal Procurement Data System—the system of record for all federal contract awards—were closed down and fully transitioned to the Data Bank page on beta.SAM.gov, the General Services Administration-run website that will soon be a one-stop shop for federal acquisition tools.
GSA officials have been working to migrate a number of acquisition-focused websites and tools to beta.SAM, with the FPDS tools just the most recent effort. Previously, GSA moved Wage Determination Online, or WDOL, the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, or CFDA, and the government’s main contract opportunities site Federal Business Opportunities, better known as FedBizOpps or FBO.
While the rest of FPDS is slated to join beta.SAM in the future, Saturday’s transition covers the tools for running the four types of available reports: administrative, static, standard and ad hoc.
“The transition went smoothly over the weekend,” a GSA spokesperson told Nextgov. “We are seeing a steady level of usage, supporting a proportional number of simultaneous users as the old FPDS reports module,” with more than 7,500 reports run as of 3 p.m. Monday.
The spokesperson said the site hasn’t seen any performance issues but encouraged users to report any issues to the Federal Service Desk.
The FPDS reporting functions were initially scheduled to be fully transitioned this past spring. But after a tense migration of the FedBizOpps site in late 2019, GSA officials opted for a soft launch of the migrated reporting tool in March. The reporting tools lived on both site ..
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