52.204-7 System for Award Management.

As prescribed in 4.1105(a)(1), use the following provision:

System for Award Management (Oct 2018)

(a) Definitions. As used in this provision—

"Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) indicator means a four-character suffix to the unique entity

identifier. The suffix is assigned at the discretion of the commercial, nonprofit, or Government entity

to establish additional System for Award Management records for identifying alternative EFT

accounts (see subpart 32.11) for the same entity.

Registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) means that–

(1) The Offeror has entered all mandatory information, including the unique entity identifier and the

EFT indicator, if applicable, the Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code, as well as data

required by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (see subpart 4.14)

into SAM

(2) The offeror has completed the Core, Assertions, and Representations and Certifications, and

Points of Contact sections of the registration in SAM;

(3) The Government has validated all mandatory data fields, to include validation of the Taxpayer

Identification Number (TIN) with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The offeror will be required to

provide consent for TIN validation to the Government as a part of the SAM registration process; and

(4) The Government has marked the record "Active".

Unique entity identifier means a number or other identifier used to identify a specific commercial,

nonprofit, or Government entity. See www.sam.gov for the designated entity for establishing unique

entity identifiers.

(b)

(1) An Offeror is required to be registered in SAM when submitting an offer or quotation, and shall

continue to be registered until time of award, during performance, and through final payment of any

contract, basic agreement, basic ordering agreement, or blanket purchasing agreement resulting

from this solicitation.

(2) The Offeror shall enter, in the block with its name and address on the cover page of its offer, the

annotation "Unique Entity Identifier" followed by the unique entity identifier that identifies the

Offeror's name and address exactly as stated in the offer. The Offeror also shall enter its EFT

indicator, if applicable. The unique entity identifier will be used by the Contracting Officer to verify

that the Offeror is registered in the SAM.

(c) If the Offeror does not have a unique entity identifier, it should contact the entity designated at

www.sam.gov for establishment of the unique entity identifier directly to obtain one. The Offeror

should be prepared to provide the following information:
(1) Company legal business name.

(2) Tradestyle, doing business, or other name by which your entity is commonly recognized.

(3) Company physical street address, city, state, and Zip Code.

(4) Company mailing address, city, state and Zip Code (if separate from physical).

(5) Company telephone number.

(6) Date the company was started.

(7) Number of employees at your location.

(8) Chief executive officer/key manager.

(9) Line of business (industry).

(10) Company headquarters name and address (reporting relationship within your entity).

(d) Processing t ime should be taken into consideration when registering. Offerors who are not

registered in SAM should consider applying for registration immediately upon receipt of this

solicitation. See https://ww.sam.gov for information on registration.

(End of provision)

Alternate I (Oct 2018). As prescribed in 4.1105(a)(2) , substitute the following paragraph (b)(1) for

paragraph (b)(1) of the basic provision:

(b)(1) An Offeror is required to be registered in SAM as soon as possible. If registration is not

possible when submitting an offer or quotation, the awardee shall be registered in SAM in

accordance with the requirements of clause 52.204-13, System for Award Management

Maintenance.

Parent topic: 52.204 [Reserved]