GSA UPDATE: if You Use a THIRD-PARTY Agency to Manage Your SAM.gov Registration.
Per the latest GSA update released February 10th. All entities registered in SAM.gov using a third party to manage their registrations will need to assign an employee, officer or board members of an organization as their entity’s administrator by March 3, 2023.
Effective March third when you register or update and entity registration. You must attest to your affiliation with that entity. If you are not an employee, officer, or board member of that entity, you will no longer be able to hold the Entity Administrator role. Instead, you will be given the Data Entry role.
Entities assigning Entity Administrator roles using the Entity Administrator Appointment Letter (also known as the notarized letter process) will no longer be able to assign the Entity Administrator role to a non-employee.
My entity currently uses outside Entity Administrator support to manage SAM.gov registrations. What are my next steps?
Send an Entity Administrator Appointment Letter to the Federal Service Desk (FSD) appointing an administrator, or
Ask your outside Entity Administrator to assign the role to someone in your entity before March 3, 2023.
I manage registrations for other organizations. What should I do?
First, rest assured that you can continue to create and manage registrations on behalf of entities with the Data Entry role.
Before you complete the next registration update for your client, help them out by requesting who they would like to serve as the Entity Administrator role. Once you have assigned an Entity Administrator role for the entity, you can proceed with your update. View the steps to assign a role in SAM.gov here. This will save your client the task of having to submit a letter to appoint someone. If you do not designate a new Entity Administrator from the entity organization prior to an update, the entity will need to send an Entity Administrator Appointment Letter to FSD.gov to assign a new Entity Administrator.
Read more about what you can do with a Data Entry role here. There are only two things you won’t be able to do with the Data Entry role: assign roles to others and deactivate the entity’s registration.
If you already have an employee, officer or board member currently serving as an Entity Administrator. You are not affected by this change.
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