DUNS transition to occur on April 4, 2022: GSA

      The government’s transition from the DUNS Number identifier for federal contractors to a new Unique Entity Identifier will occur on April 4, 2022, GSA announced.

      Contractors already registered in SAM.gov have been assigned unique identifiers, which are viewable at SAM.gov. New users will need to create a unique identifier in SAM.gov.

      The transition is intended to streamline contractor identification and verification processes. Formerly, the DUNS Numbers were distributed and managed by Dun and Bradstreet Inc.

      The DUNS number remains the official identifier for doing business with the U.S. Government until April 4, 2022.

      Vendors will no longer have to go to a third-party website to obtain their identifier number.

      “This transition allows the government to streamline the entity identification and validation process, making it easier and less burdensome for entities to do business with the federal government,” the GSA wrote.

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GSA announcement: https://bit.ly/3vWQx0Y

Online-only ecommerce mkt only $500M: GSA

      GSA reportedly has reduced its estimate of the potential size of the online-only ecommerce government market to about $500 million. Previous estimates have been as high as $6 billion.

      GSA has realized that the “potential $6 billion market is all of the addressable product market under the micro purchase threshold. What we’ve also seen is the online channels that are only online is about $500 million,” Laura Stanton, the assistant commissioner for GSA’s Office of IT Category, told Federal News Network.

     “We’re really looking at about a $500 million market for the online-only channels,” she said. Online sales in the existing ecommerce platform have risen from $135 million in fiscal 2014 to nearly $500 million in fiscal 2020, she added.

      GSA recently reported to Congress that the agency does not intend to conduct three proofs-of-concept for ecommerce platforms, saying it would be expensive, confusing and unnecessary. In testing all three models “a high expense is levied on the Government, for little added benefit,” the report said.

Read more at:
GSA report: https://bit.ly/3bkuurI
Stanton interview: https://bit.ly/31eneMe

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