V1.4 SP10.0

The four new Vendor Socio Economic Indicators are:
1. Women-Owned Small Business - (WOSB)
2. Joint Venture Women-Owned Small Business - (JVWOSB)
3. Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business - (EDWOSB)
4. Joint Venture Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business - (EDJVWOSB)

• FPDS-NG will update the CCR Loading Process to accept and store the following 4 new Vendor Flags.
  
  • Women Owned Small Business (WOSB)
  • Women Owned Small Business Joint Venture (JVWOSB)
  • Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Business (EDWOSB)
  • Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Business Joint Venture (EDJVWOSB)

• FPDS-NG will store the new vendor flags for an Award or an IDV when a vendor with those flags is selected. This will happen on ‘Save Draft’, ‘Approve’ and ‘Correct’ operations through the Web-Portal or GUI Services and ‘create’, ‘update’, ‘approve’ and ‘correct’ through GUI Services.

Note: 1. On ‘Correct’ operation for contracts in Version 1.3 and below, the flags will be updated only if the Vendor is changed.
2. This change is not applicable to Other Transactions.

• FPDS-NG will not show the new flags on the screen and will not return these new flags in any XML response for Version 1.4 and below. There is no version change for users.

1. Women-Owned Small Business
2. Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business

New Validation Rules have to added to address the new values for "Type of Set Aside".

• FPDS-NG will add the following new values in the dropdown for the data element “Type of Set Aside”:
  • Women Owned Small Business - (Code through Business Services is ‘WOSB’)
  • Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Business (Code through Business Services is ‘EDWOSB’)

• The new values for “Type of Set Aside” will be available only for Awards and IDVs in Version 1.4. This change is not applicable for NASA Specific Awards or Other Transactions.

• FPDS-NG will display the following Validation Rule if the code ‘WOSB’ or ‘EDWOSB’ is sent for ‘Correct’ operation in Version 1.3 or below:

4004 - “The value "<<value>>" for Data Element "Type of Set Aside" is invalid.”

• The new values for “Type of Set Aside” are valid only effective 18th March 2011. FPDS-NG will display the following Validation Rule if the new values for “Type of Set Aside” are selected and the “Date Signed” of the contract is prior to ‘3/18/2011’:

"If "Type of Set Aside" is ‘Women-Owned Small Business’ or ‘Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business’ the “Date Signed” must be equal or later than ‘3/18/2011’"

• FPDS-NG will display the following Validation rule on base Award and IDV if the “Type of Set Aside” is ‘Women Owned Small Business” and the Vendor does not have any of the new flags (WOSB, JVWOSB, EDWOSB or EDJVWOSB):

“If “Type of Set Aside” is ‘Women-Owned Small Business’ the Vendor must be ‘Women-Owned Small Business’, ‘Joint Venture Women-Owned Small Business’, ‘Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business’ or ‘Joint Venture Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business’.”

• FPDS-NG will display the following Validation rule on base Award and IDV if the “Type of Set Aside” is ‘Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Business” and the Vendor does not have the new flags (EDWOSB or EDJVWOSB):

“If “Type of Set Aside” is ‘Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business’ the Vendor must be ‘Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business’ or ‘Joint Venture Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business’.”

• All Validation Rules mentioned above will be displayed on the following operations:
  • ‘Valdidate’, ‘Approve’ and ‘Correct’ operations through Web Portal and GUI Services.
  • ‘isComplete’, ‘isExistingAwardComplete’, ‘isExistingIDVComplete’, ‘approve’ and ‘correct’ operations through Business Services.

• These Validation Rules apply to Version 1.4 only.