It’s now November, and the General Services Administration still hasn’t fixed the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) transition to the new validation service that began in April.
And as many as 50,000 companies and grantees still are waiting to fix validation issues that is causing delays in awards and in getting paid…
A GSA spokesperson said the 50,000 backlog represents a “snapshot in time” of vendor problems that are currently under manual review.
The spokesperson said only a fraction of that 50,000 trouble tickets have been in the manual review process for more than two months.
“The numbers do reflect that we have a high volume of tickets coming in, and we remain focused on completing each review as quickly as possible to minimize burden on businesses and other entities, while maintaining the rigor and integrity of the entity validation process overall,” the spokesperson said… Read the full article here.
