Purpose

PIEE added the Solicitation Portal Module after customers expressed a need for a more automated process to post solicitations and their attachments and capture offer responses. This tool leverages existing data standards such as PDS and GSA’s Contract Opportunity APIs to receive solicitations from the various Contract Writing Systems (CWS) used by the government and automatically share them with the Government Point of Entry (GPE) FedBizOpps (FBO). The solicitation documents and attachments are available on a public webpage for review by Industry. The public access allows the solicitations and their attachments to be viewable by all interested Industry partners in one consolidated location. A separate portal that requires a secure log in and is based on approved role is provided for collecting Industry Offer Responses, Industry Reps and Certs from SAM and granting access to those offers to the government users. This application has streamlined the government solicitation and offer response process and created an interface to retrieve representations and certifications efficiently.