Updated March 2022

Sales Account Request and Streamline & Vehicle Registrations 

Contents: 

Section 1: Requesting Your New Account/Role (page 2)

Section 2: Set up contact profile (page 3)

Section 3: Create company profile (page 4)

Section 4: Company Registrations for Sales Program (page 5)

Section 5: Solicitation Type Submissions (page 6)

Section 6: Submitting a Quote (page 7)

Section 7: Submitting Shipping Requests (page 8)

Section 8: Submitting Declarations (page 9)

Section 9: Acknowledging a New Amendment (page 10)
Section 1: Account Request:

1. Go to www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials and in the upper right hand corner, click “Register” to go

to our sales site. This site is where all sales activity is conducted. The Strategic Materials Sales

portal can be reached directly at: https://businessportal.dla.mil/irj/portal

2. To request an account, please follow the instructions laid out on the Customer Information Guide

page under the ‘Request an AMPs account and role’ section. You will also be required to request

a role after account creation. These instructions may be found in the same document.

Once you have requested your account/role, you are now able to login to the Sale Portal and begin 

building your Contact and Company profile. If you already have an established account, you may edit 

your profiles/registrations at this point, if needed.
Section 2: Set up Contact Profile:

1. Log in to the Strategic Materials Sales Portal at https://businessportal.dla.mil/irj/portal. If 

prompted to choose a certificate, click "Cancel" on the prompt. Once logged in, click the 

Strategic Materials Sales tab across the top. 

2. First thing you want to do it set up your contact profile. Do this by clicking “Contact Profile”

after logging it. You will choose what types of notifications you would like and for which

material alerts you want to subscribe to.

3. Next you will set up a PIN. This will be used to e-sign all documents and will serve as your

signature. Click “PIN” at the top right of the screen.

4. Then “Create PIN”

5. The PIN must be a 6 digit number. Choose your own security question and answer and then click

“Submit.”

6. Any PIN management can be done from this screen.
Section 3: Create Company Profile:

1. Next will be the creation of your company profile. From the PIN screen, click “Home” below the

DLA logo.

2. To begin, click on “Sales Menu”

3. Choose from the “Individual” or “Company” choices. Most will be “Company”

4. On the next screen, you are only required to enter your company name. DUNS is not necessary

but if you would like to enter, feel free. Click “Insert” once completed. A Registration ID will be

system generated.

5. The contact profile creating the Company Profile will now be listed as the Administrator and can

conduct all business needed within the Company Profile. Addition of other contacts, submission

of BOAs, quotes, shipping instructions, declarations, etc.

6. After inserting the Company Profile, click “Default Addresses” at the top right to enter an

address. Enter your company’s address and click “Insert”. It will be saved for future use on

solicitation documents.

7. To add a new contact to your company, select “Contacts” and then choose “Insert New Company

Administrator contact”. The new user will need to have an account established prior to

performing this action. Enter their account ID and email into the appropriate fields and click

“Insert”. They will show in the list as Contacts moving forward and have administrative rights

for your company profile.
Section 4: Company Registration for sales program:

1. If your company was previously established, your Default Addresses and Company contacts will

remain in place. No need to re-enter (unless you need to update these).

2. At the company level, you will now see a few submittals attached that require submission. These

submittals are required for submission. Please review/complete each and user certify that you

have reviewed them.

3. Once all the submittals are user certified, a text field will appear below the list of submittals

where you may enter your PIN and digitally sign your registration.

4. If you do not have a previously established Financial Exposure Limit (FEL), at this point you

will need to submit your financial documents. These can be submitted to

DLAStrategicMaterialsSales@dla.mil (a list of documents you need to submit can be found in

any of the basic ordering agreements located here in Section B, paragraph 5).

5. Your registration will be submitted for review once you have submitted the required documents.

6. An approval of your company registration now means you are approved to participate in the

sales program.
Section 5: Solicitation Type Submissions:

1. Once your Company Profile is approved, you can log back in to the site and begin to fill out any

solicitation type registrations for which you choose to participate in from the Sales Menu.

2. The 2nd section will list all the current open solicitation types for registration. You can choose to

fill out all or none, but each would have to be done separately.

3. Click “Register” next to the desired solicitation type.

4. This will bring you to the list of submittals and amendments that will have to be filled out. The

submittals are required but you may choose all or none of the amendments. The Amendments

are material specific and contain terms specific to those materials. To participate in any open

offerings under the desired material, you must acknowledge that material amendment. Once the

submittals and any desired material amendments are completed/acknowledged, you may submit

your solicitation type registration. However, you will not need to wait for further approval. Your

solicitation type registration is immediately approved (DLA does not review) and you may

participate in any open material offering under that amendment. To participate in another

offering for a material that you have not previously acknowledged that amendment, simply user

certify and submit the solicitation type registration once again you will instantly be ready to

quote on material. You will not have to wait for DLA approval (Note: this does not mean

material will be available for quote on an open ended basis. Offerings will remain open for a

limited time frame).

The submittals attached are not the entire agreement, to review the entire solicitation and all

terms, visit the individual sales page to review the complete solicitation or the following link:

https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Sales/Basic-Ordering-Agreements/

5. ALL submittals must be reviewed and filled out with the relevant information. At the bottom of

each, click the “User Certified” box and click “Submit”. This will save each submittal. NOTE:

Your BOA is not yet submitted.

6. Once all the submittals and desired material amendments have been user certified, you will return 

to the submittal page and see below a text box for your PIN. Once you are comfortable with the 

submittals and amendments, enter your PIN and click “SUBMIT.” Your vehicle registration has 

been submitted and is instantly approved.

Your registration requires no further review from DLA and you will be able to 

IMMEDIATELY participate in any open material offerings under that amendment type!
Section 6: Submitting a Quote:

1. Once approved and an offer opens, login to the Sales site and in the “Amendments” section, you

will find your material amendments for which you have acknowledged. Click “Select” next to

the commodity amendment to view any open offerings.

2. You will see a Schedule of Offerings for the material. When open, a “Create Offer” link will

appear.

3. This will bring you to the list of submittals required for the quote. The first two must be user

certified as well. The 3rd is where you will find the shopping list and be able to enter your

quantity and quote price. If desired, you can Duplicate a line item to enter multiple prices or

quantities by click “DUP” to the left of the item.

4. Once you enter your price and quantity, click “Update” to calculate the totals and ensure they are

correct. Once comfortable, click “Submit” at the bottom.

5. The Quote/Award Form is only for your review. No submissions needed. This is just a summary

of your quote.

6. Once all submittals are completed, a text box for your PIN will display below. Enter your PIN

and click “SUBMIT”.

7. Your quote is transmitted to us and will be reviewed once the offering closes. Until then, you

have the ability to EDIT or DELETE your quote should you choose. You can do this by clicking

“Select” next your quote and these options will appear.
Section 7: Submitting Shipping Requests:

1. After an award of material has been made, you will be able to submit a Shipping Request via the

Sales Site as well.

2. At the very bottom of the Sales Menu, you will see a list of awarded contracts for your company.

You can view the contract number and summary of award here.

3. By clicking the “Shipping Request” link next to your contract, you will be taken to the screen for

information regarding shipping. Please fill out and submit (with your PIN) for transmission.

Approval will come shortly after.
Section 8: Submitting Declarations (Negotiated contracts only): 

1. On the Sales Menu, the very bottom of the page displays awarded contracts to you. Next to a

negotiated contract, you will have an option for “Declarations”. Click the “Declarations” button.

2. A list of previously filled out declarations will display. Above that will be a link “Create a

Declaration” to start a new one. Click “Create a Declaration”.

3. A blank declaration will display with a link to “Edit” at the bottom. Click “edit”.

4. Please enter the information regarding your formula, calculated price and quantity. Click

“Update” once complete.

5. This returns to you a summary of your declaration. Below the summary, click “Submit” to bring

up the PIN field. Enter your PIN and click submit to transmit your declaration to DLA. Once

reviewed, you will be notified.
Section 9: Acknowledging an Amendment

1. From the Sales Menu, click “Edit” next to Solicitation Type BOA.

2. Next click select next to the Chromium Metal Amendment (or any other amendment you choose

acknowledge.
3. On the next screen, read through and User Certify the amendment at the bottom. Once you

click submit you will be brought back to the solicitation screen to type in your PIN to submit the

solicitation. You can now participate in any open Chromium metal offerings. We (DLA) do not

need to review your solicitation any further. Acknowledged amendments will show up on the

Sales Menu page under the amendments section. This is where you can access opened offerings.