“As of October 17, federal vendors, contracting researchers and watchers and any other interested party, will no longer be able to run or access contract award data reports through the Federal Procurement Data System at FPDS.gov.”
“On that date, the General Services Administration expects to have completed the full migration of FDPS’s reporting functions—administrative, static, standard and ad hoc reports—to the beta.SAM.gov website under the Data Bank page.”
“At that time, beta.SAM.gov will be the only place to create and run contract data reports and the reports module in FPDS.gov will be retired,” according to an update in GSA’s new beta.SAM.gov newsletter…”
“GSA officials urged users to test out the new Data Bank system prior to the October 17 deadline and offer feedback on how the agency can improve the site and user interface. Users are also advised to go to the reports history section on beta.SAM to check on ad hoc reports that were transferred over from FPDS.”
“The update also includes a number of resources to help both new and experienced FPDS users get up to speed on the new tool…” Read the full article here.
Source: FPDS Reports Will Officially Move to beta.SAM by Mid-October – By Aaron Boyd, August 13, 2020. Nextgov.
