The Integrated Award Environment (IAE) manages a suite of online systems that are part of the federal awards lifecycle. We are consolidating what were many separate systems into one place, SAM.gov. As the remaining systems are integrated, SAM.gov will empower users to seamlessly leverage vast stores of acquisition, assistance, and entity data in a single, unified platform.
As we bring information from each system under the SAM.gov umbrella, data security is standardized, administrative oversight is streamlined, and databases are unified, allowing for more efficient, connected, and powerful searches and analysis.
We provide a common and secure business environment to:
- Create better and more ways to search across all data sets
- Simplify the management of data with a streamlined interface
- Discover a wide range of award data in a single, unified platform
The future SAM.gov will offer tailored views into entity, acquisition, and assistance data that don't exist today without significant custom data analytics work. This approach will tie pre-award to post-award data, streamline data entry, eliminate duplication, increase data quality and eliminate "siloed data."
The IAE is increasing data accuracy and reducing burden by:
- Collecting data once to use in many ways
- Identifying opportunities to eliminate overlap
- Minimizing barriers to small and underserved business who no longer have to learn multiple processes or systems
- Simplifying management of awards data security to address cybersecurity concerns
- Identifying high-value system improvements and prioritizing their delivery to our users
If you work with federal acquisitions, you will benefit from the way IAE systems collect and publish data about contract opportunities and actions, as well as the way that it collects required reporting under eligible small business subcontracting plans. This offers increased visibility into which vendors receive awards and provides a common source for the government to evaluate performance information.
If you work with federal assistance, you will benefit from the way IAE systems provide a single, authoritative, government comprehensive source of federal financial assistance listings, which supports the government goal of consistent, accurate program information for prospective applicants.
The IAE works on behalf of the acquisition and financial assistance communities to be more efficient, reduce burden, and improve federal award management.
- Our purpose is to provide a central, secure business environment that facilitates a fair and transparent federal award process allowing the entire U.S. government to meet its mission and goals equitably.
- Our mission is to apply technology and design to deliver a central, secure business environment.
- Our vision is to be the most trusted, essential place to seamlessly connect to the business of government.