V1.4 SP7.0

Currently the Informatica Standard reports do not consider the CCR flags, ‘Self Certified Small Disadvantaged Business’ in the calculation of “Small Disadvantaged Business” and ‘8(a) Joint Venture’ in the calculation of “8(a)”.

There has been a requirement from GSA that SDB should consider the contractual actions with either ‘SBA Certified Small Disadvantaged Business’ checked or ‘Self Certified Small Disadvantaged Business’ checked and that 8(a) should consider the contractual actions with either ‘8(a)’ checked or ‘8(a) Joint Venture’.

The calculation of SDB, 8(a) or both will be modified in the following reports as per the calculation shown below:

Modified SDB calculation: For all the agencies, except DoD, NASA and United States Coast Guard, contractual actions with the vendor flag as either (‘SBA Certified Small Disadvantaged Business’ or ‘Self Certified Small Disadvantaged Business’) or (‘8(a) Program Participant’) and with ‘Contracting Officer’s Determination of Business Size’ is “Small Business”.

For DoD (department ID: 9700), NASA (department ID: 8000) and United States Coast Guard (contracting agency: 6950 or 7008), the following existing additional logic shall continue to apply: Vendor flag is either ‘Historically Black Colleges or Universities’ or ‘Minority Institution’.

Modified 8(a) Firm calculation: Contractual actions with the vendor flag as either ‘8(a) Program Participant’ or ‘8(a) Joint Venture’ and with ‘Contracting Officer’s Determination of Business Size’ is “Small Business”.

• Appendices for all the reports cited above shall be changed to reflect the new calculation logic reflected under the column headers of SDB and 8 (a). This will be done in both in the Preview and when the report when it is executed

• On ‘Correct’ of an IDV, FPDS-NG shall ensure that the IDV is corrected successfully and ‘System Error’ is not displayed.
• On ‘Correct’ of an IDV, FPDS-NG shall ensure that all ‘Not Required’ data elements on the referencing Awards and IDVs are updated with the values from the referenced IDV successfully.
• On ‘Correct’ of an IDV, FPDS-NG shall ensure that all ‘Not Required’ data elements on the modifications are updated with the values from the IDV successfully.
• All above requirements shall apply on all Versions through Web Portal, GUI and Business Services.

• From the session expired screen, FPDS-NG shall redirect the user to the ‘Reset Password’ screen when the password of the user is reset by the administrator and the password entered by the user is correct.
• On the session expired screen, FPDS-NG shall display the following inactivity or user locked message when the user tries to login based on the profile of the user.

“For security purposes, user account '<userID>' has been disabled due to ninety (90) days of inactivity. Therefore, access to FPDS-NG is not available, until the user account is re-enabled. Please contact your FPDS-NG System administrator to have the user account re-enabled.”

“For security purposes, user account '<userID>' has been disabled and locked from use because of five (5) unsuccessful log-in attempts. Please contact your FPDS-NG System administrator to have the user account unlocked.”

The user is not able to successfully correct a migrated contract which is signed on or after 1st October 2003 as the data element “Description of Requirements” is closed for editing and the following mandatory message fires: “The Mandatory element: "descriptionOfContractRequirement" is missing for Contract Type: IDV and Contract Action Type: IDC.”

• FPDS-NG shall allow the users to edit the data element “Description of Requirement” through front end on DoD contracts prepared by “DOD_ MIGRATOR” or “MIGRATOR”.

• FPDS-NG shall accept the value for the data element “Description of Requirement” only if the “Date Signed” is equal to or later than 1st October 2003.

• The following warning message shall not be displayed for DoD contracts prepared by “DOD_ MIGRATOR” or “MIGRATOR” and the “Date Signed” is equal to or later than 1st October 2003.

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5004 – “The description of contract requirement cannot be changed for DOD documents that were Migrated.”

• All the above requirements are applicable on ‘Correct’ through Web Portal and Business Services.

• All the above requirements are applicable on finalized bases and modifications of Awards and IDVs on all versions.

• FPDS-NG shall update and re-arrange the Principal Place of Performance labels for (State, Location, Country) to be placed above the text boxes on the Award and IDV Screens.
• The above requirement shall apply to Awards on all Versions and 1.4 Other Transactions IDV.
• The CBT Training material and the V 1.4/1.3 Users Manual shall be updated to update the screenshots with the updated position for the Principal Place of Performance labels.