The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 5.2 states that whenever agencies are required to publicize notice of proposed contract actions through the Government Point of Entry (GPE) on the System for Award Management (SAM), ensuring wide access to potential bidders and promoting competition. This section in SAM.gov is known as Contract Opportunities.
These contract actions include more than just the next potential job. Agencies also use this GPE portal to communicate with industry – such as advertising Industry Days, Requests for Information and other special notices. In other words, this is a website that interested contractors should know how to use to its full benefit.
Topics discussed during this webinar include:
Use the SAM search filters to best advantage
The importance of role assignments pertaining to secured access solicitation documents
Use the workspace tools to build saved searches, follow notices and to download search results
Handouts can be found below:
SAM Role Management Guide v1 (2)
Slides – Searching Contract Opportunities 2025
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