Term
SAM.gov
System for Award Management
The government's own registration and opportunity site; registering there is free and required to win awards.
The central federal site where businesses register to be eligible for awards and where contract opportunities are posted publicly. Registration is free, renews yearly, and is the prerequisite for everything else in this world.
In a sentence
"Offerors must have an active SAM.gov registration at time of award." Not active means not eligible, no matter how good the bid was.
Also called
- SAM
- System for Award Management
- beta.sam.gov
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