Conversion from CCR to SAM Moved to End of July

From The General Services Administration:

The General Services Administration (GSA) is moving the implementation date of the System for Award Management (SAM) from May 29, 2012 to the end of July 2012. The additional sixty days will allow federal agencies to continue preparing their staff, give agencies and commercial system providers even more time to test their data transfer connections, and will ensure SAM contains the critical, documented capabilities users need from the system. 

This first phase of SAM will include the capabilities of Central Contractor Registration (CCR)/Federal Agency Registration (FedReg), Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA), and the Excluded Parties List System (EPLS). In preparation for the launch, GSA conducted extensive testing internally and in coordination with federal agencies using the data from these systems in their own contracting, grants, finance, and other departments. The testing was very valuable and will focus the efforts of the next sixty days. 

SAM will reduce the burden on those seeking to do business with the government. Vendors will be able to log into one system to manage their entity information in one record, with one expiration date, through one streamlined business process. Federal agencies will be able to look in one place for entity pre-award information. Everyone will have fewer passwords to remember and see the benefits of data reuse as information is entered into SAM once and reused throughout the system. 

Please see http://sam.gov for more information about the system.

The Grants.gov program management office strongly encourages all new grant applicants to register with CCR now to ensure a trouble-free and timely submission process during this transition period. The registration process may take between 3-5 days to complete.


If you are already registered with CCR, please make sure that your organization's account information is up-to-date and that your account is not expired (CCR accounts require annual renewals.) To check your CCR account, please visit http://www.ccr.gov.