Designating a Contracting Office (DoD Only)

The Government Office function allows changing a funding office into a contracting office and associating start and end dates to the newly-named contracting office thereby making it active for a given time period. (This is allowed only for DoD and not Civilian agencies.)

 

The screen also allows associating parent organization codes with the contracting office.

 

The ‘Save As New’ functionality allows the user to create a future active contracting office.

 

The parent organization code is defaulted to the agency code of the funding office.

 

 

The following table shows which search criteria fields are searchable by DoD users and which ones are searchable by civilian users.

 

Function
DoD
Civilian
Parent Organization Code
Yes
No
Contracting Offices Only
Yes
No
Office ID
Yes
Yes
Agency ID
Yes
Yes
Agency Name
Yes
Yes
Office Name
Yes
Yes
City
Yes
Yes
State
Yes
Yes
ZIP Code
Yes
Yes

 

Once you have refined your search criteria and performed your search, you may select the desired office using the radio button on the left of the screen. Then select edit .

The edit screen will be displayed.

 

If the Funding Office is already a Contracting Office, the "Is Contracting Office" check box will be checked. If it is not checked, place a check mark in the box to the right of "Is Contracting Office," in order to designate the Funding Office as a Contracting Office.

Designate the period of performance start date that the Funding Office is to become a Contracting Office. As per FPDS design, for DoD: an office can be classified as funding, or both funding or contracting. A DoD office can not be classified as a contracting office only. If applicable, designate the end date. A Contracting Office effective period may be open-ended.

 

Complete all other mandatory fields, indicated by orange print.

Saving a Contracting Office: