The move is the latest step in the long-planned modernization of the System of Award Management.
With an eye toward IT modernization, GSA plans to decommission a federal grant assistance site at the end of May and put it on an agency website that aggregates legacy sites.
May 25 will be the last day GSA will support its Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance system, according to Dave Zvenyach, assistant commissioner for systems management at the agency. The CFDA operating system will be officially moved to the agency's beta.sam.gov site.
CFDA provides data on a wide range of federal grants, loans, scholarships, to state and local governments, domestic public, quasi- public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups, and individuals.
Like other federal agencies, GSA is moving to modernize its legacy IT systems, Zvenyach told the Coalition for Government Procurement's spring conference. Consolidating old systems, such as CFDA and others, onto a centralized source is part of that effort, he said.
Beta.SAM.gov is GSA's production website that the agency plans to eventually make a consolidated, searchable data source taken from of the agency's legacy 10 operating systems, Zvenyach said. All 10 of those sites operate concurrently on their own sites and on beta.SAM.gov.
CFDA, however, is the first of those to be officially decommissioned and operate solely on beta.SAM.gov.