The IAE systems

The Integrated Award Environment improves processes and implements policies for those who make, manage, or receive federal awards.

We have streamlined the number of IAE systems from ten to four, and in the longer term, will consolidate everything into a single system, SAM.gov.

The consolidated system will use a single login to access the site, and provide users with a powerful search tool, one reporting tool, and one workspace for managing day-to-day work.

Visit About SAM.gov to learn more about SAM.gov and the IAE systems consolidation.

Current IAE systems

SAM.gov

SAM.gov includes functionality and data from these decommissioned legacy systems:

• Contract Opportunities, formerly Federal Business Opportunities, or FBO.gov, transitioned in November 2019. For acquisitions of supplies and services, agencies must publish notices of proposed contract actions expected to exceed $25,000. Notices included solicitations, pre-solicitations, sole source justifications, and more.
• Assistance Listings, formerly Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, or CFDA.gov, transitioned in May 2018. Assistance listings provide a comprehensive description of all federal assistance, including eligibility info, how to apply, and matching requirements.
• Wage Determinations, formerly Wage Determinations OnLine, or WDOL, transitioned in June 2019. Wage determinations provide the required wage rates and fringe benefit rates that must be met on federal procurement contracts for each labor category covered by the Davis Bacon Act or the Service Contract Act as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor.
• The DataBank contains contract data reports which provide detailed info on awarded contracts using data from the Federal Data Procurement System. The report data is downloadable and can be aggregated by various attributes for analysis.
• Entity Information includes entity registration records, Unique Entity ID records, exclusions, responsibility or qualification records, and the Disaster Response Registry. Entity registration in SAM.gov provides entities the ability to apply for federal grants or loans or bid on government contracts. On SAM.gov, entities can register, update or renew entity registration, check the status of their entity registration, and get a Unique Entity ID — a 12-character alphanumeric identifier used by the federal government to identify organizations for federal award purposes. Anyone can search public entity info by creating and signing into a SAM.gov account.
• Exclusions identify a party excluded from receiving federal contracts, certain subcontracts, and certain types of federal financial and non-financial assistance and benefits. Awarding officials check SAM.gov to see if an exclusion exists for an entity.

Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System

CPARS contains data on federal contractors, including past performance info and proceedings related to federal awards, terminations, and more. Past Performance Information Retrieval System, or PPIRS, was a single source for contractor performance information. This system has merged into CPARS.

Electronic Subcontracting Reporting System

eSRS is a reporting tool to collect subcontracting accomplishments and share the info with the awarding official.

Federal Procurement Data System

FPDS contains publicly available info on unclassified contract actions exceeding the micro-purchase threshold and any modifications to those actions that change previously reported data, regardless of dollar value. Contract data reports, the reporting function of FPDS, was integrated into SAM.gov on October 17, 2020. The remaining functions will transition later.

Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act Sub-award Reporting System

FSRS is the reporting tool federal prime awardees — prime contractors and prime grants recipients — used to capture and report sub-award and executive compensation data regarding their first-tier sub-awards to meet FFATA reporting requirements.