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GSA’s big changes in 2020, part 4: DUNS to UEI

February 1, 2020 By Andrew Smith

In addition to Federal Supply Schedule consolidation, GSA is replacing the official identifier federal government contractors use.  Specifically, GSA is transitioning from and will stop using the Dun & Bradstreet (“D&B”) proprietary system for verification and validation of entities registering to do business with the federal government.  Effective December 2020, GSA intends to have transitioned all government systems away from using D&B Data Universal Numbering System numbers (“DUNS”) and instead using new Unique Entity Identifiers (“UEI”).  The UEI is a new, nonproprietary identifier that will be assigned through GSA’s System for Award Management (“SAM”) registration process.

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Filed Under: Contracting Tips Tagged With: DUNS, GSA, UEI, Unique Entity Identifier

U.S. Government to ditch the DUNS

July 30, 2019 By Andrew Smith

Earlier this month, the GSA announced a new Unique Entity Identifier Standard for Federal awards management.  The new standard will go into effect December 2020.  It will replace the current DUNS number system as the official identifier for all businesses contracting with the U.S. Federal Government.  This should make registering to do business with the federal government a little easier, but the proof will be in the roll-out.

The GSA’s Office of Systems Management, Integrated Award Environment (IAE), published an official notice of this new “Unique Entity ID Standard for Awards Management” in the Federal Register on July 10, 2019.  The new standard will be considered “final” on that date.  The GSA plans to have the new system in place by December of 2020.

GSA’s notice announces:

“[T]he U.S. government is moving to a new unique entity identifier for federal awards management, including, but not limited to, contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements, which will ultimately become the primary key to identify entities throughout the federal awarding lifecycle, in SAM.gov, other IAE systems, on required forms, and in downstream government systems.”

GSA explains, “IAE systems will be transitioning from the DUNS® to a SAM-generated Unique Entity ID (UEI),” the new identification standard developed by an inter-agency working group.  The “new entity identifier will be the authoritative identifier once the transition is complete,” and the “DUNS® will be phased out as the entity identifier for entity record[s] within SAM.”  GSA’s website further details this transition-plan, including specifics of GSA’s plan to phase out the current Dun & Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS®) over the next 18 months.

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