Frequently Asked Questions

Welcome to SAM
- What is SAM?
- The Federal Procurement World of the Past and Future
- Who Should Use SAM?
- Public User Capability
- Navigating SAM
User Management in SAM
- Creating an Account in SAM
- Types of Accounts
  - Creating an Individual Account
- Account States
Troubleshooting Your User Account
- Forgot Password
- Forgot Username
Features of an Individual Account
- My SAM Page
- My User Roles
- Entity Registrations
- My Account Settings
- My Data Access
- Accessing your Saved Searches
Introduction to SAM Roles
- U.S. Federal Government Roles
- Non-Federal Government Roles
Managing Your Roles
- Migrating a Legacy Account to SAM
- Requesting a Role with an Entity
- Managing Roles with an Existing Entity
- Managing Invitations to Accept Roles from an Administrator
- Accepting an Invitation to Join SAM
Entity Management Registration
- Who Registers in SAM Entity Management?
  - What You Need before Getting Started
- Determining your Purpose of Registration
- Registering your Entity if you are interested in Federal Assistance Awards Only
  - Entering Core Data
  - Entering Points of Contact (POCs)
  - Submitting Your Registration
- Registrating Your Entity if you are interested in Federal Contracts
  - Entering Core Data
  - Entering Assertions
  - Entering Representations and Certifications
  - Entering Points of Contact (POCs)
  - SBA Supplemental Page
  - Submitting Your Registration
- Registering your Entity if you are interested in Intra-Governmental Transactions
  - Entering Core Data
  - Entering Assertions
  - Entering Points of Contact (POCs)
  - Submitting Your Registration
- Registering your Entity if you are interested in Federal Contracts and Intra-Governmental Transactions
  - Entering Core Data
  - Entering Assertions
  - Entering Representations and Certifications
  - Entering Points of Contact (POCs)
  - Submitting Your Registration
- Registering Your Entity if you are interested in Federal Assistance and Intra-Governmental Transactions
  - Entering Core Data
  - Entering Assertions
  - Entering Points of Contact (POCs)
  - Submitting the Registration
- Status Indicators for your Registration
  - SAM Status Tracker
- Maintaining Your Entity’s Data
  - Printing and Saving Your Entity’s Record
  - Your responsibilities
  - Editing Your Entity’s Data
  - Data Received From External Sources
- Deactivating an Entity Registration
Administrator
- Federal Administrators
  - Becoming a Federal Administrator in SAM
  - Federal Roles
- Non-Federal Entity Administrators
  - Becoming a Non-Federal Entity Administrator in SAM
  - Non-Federal Roles
- Managing Entity Users
  - Inviting Users to Your Entity
  - Managing Existing Users
  - Managing Role Requests
Search
- Accessing Search
  - Advanced Search
  - Impacts of Roles on Search Results
  - Downloading Search Results
  - Saving and Running Search Queries
- Viewing Records
  - Entity Dashboard
  - Exclusion Records
Data Access in SAM
- Viewing Data in SAM
- Legacy Interfaces in SAM
- Creating a System Account
  - System Dashboard
  - System Profiles
  - System POC Information
  - Deactivating Your System Account
- SAM Data Access Roles
  - Public Data
  - FOUO Entity Management Data
  - Sensitive Entity Management Data User
- Requesting Data Access Roles
  - Data Access Request for Individual Account
  - Data Access Request for System Account
- Approving Data Access Requests
- How to Access Data for Which You Have Been Approved
  - Accessing Data from the Website
  - Accessing Data as Pipe-Delimited Extracts
  - Accessing Data Using SFTP or Web Services
- System Accounts – Sending Data to SAM
Performance Information – Exclusions
- Overview
- Exclusions Terminology
  - Overview
  - Exclusions Types
- Managing Exclusions
  - My Exclusions
  - Agency Exclusion Points of Contact (POCs)
  - Add New Exclusion
  - Edit/Delete/Deactivate an Existing Exclusion Record
  - Upload Interface
  - Web Service Interface
- Viewing Exclusions
  - Viewing Record History
  - Viewing Excluded Family Members
Federal Government Hierarchy Maintenance
- Hierarchy Background
- Maintaining the Federal Government Hierarchy
  - Requesting a New Department, Agency or Office
SAM Help
- SAM Help Pages
- SAM Assistant Tool
About SAM
- About Pages
BioPreferred Report
- Reporting
- Required Data
- Access BioPreferred Functionality
- Creating BioPreferred Reports
- Editing BioPreferred Reports
- BioPreferred Reporting Period
- Federal Government Users Viewing Submitted Reports
- BioPreferred Reports
Service Contract Reporting
- Reporting Requirements
- Transmission of Contract Action Reports from FPDS to SAM
- SCR Required Data
- Accessing SCR Functionality
- Creating SCRs
- Editing/Deleting SCRs
- Federal Government Users Viewing Submitted Reports
- Service Contract Reports
Appendix A – Acronym List
Appendix B – Glossary
Entity Management Content Glossary
Representations and Certifications Content Glossary
Performance Info Glossary

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

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