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User Guides

Quick User Guides

Helpful Hints for Entity Registrations

Description: Guidance for registrants on understanding your entity's registration status.

Click here to go to the registration status tracker and learn more about your registration status (opens in new tab).

Understanding Your Entity's Registration Status

Description: Using SAM with the help of a Screen Reader.

Click here to download PDF for best practice tips using Screen Readers to navigate the SAM website (opens in new tab).

Best practice tips for using Screen Readers to navigate the SAM website

Quick Start Guide for Service Contract Reporting (SCR)

Description: A short reference guide to help you report on your Service Contracts for the previous Government fiscal year.

Click here to download PDF for a A short reference guide to help you report on your Service Contracts for the previous Government fiscal year (opens in new tab).

Quick Start Guides for Updating/Renewing Registrations

Description: A short reference guide to help you renew or update your registration that was previously in CCR (and in some cases ORCA) and is now in SAM.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide to help you renew or update your registration that was previously in CCR (and in some cases ORCA) and is now in SAM (opens in new tab).

Description: A short reference guide to help foreign entities to register in SAM.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide to help foreign entities to register in SAM (opens in new tab).

Quick Start Guides for Contract Registrations

Description: A short reference guide on what you must know to register your entity for contracts in SAM.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide on what you must know to register your entity for contracts in SAM (opens in new tab).

Description: A short reference guide to introduce the new CAGE Ownership of Offeror requirement.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide to introduce the new CAGE Ownership of Offeror requirement (opens in new tab).

Description: A short user guide to the Representations and Certifications questionnaire.

Click here to download the Representations and Certifications questionnaire (opens in new tab).

Quick Start Guides for Grant Registrations

Description: A short reference guide on what you must know to register your entity for grants and federal assistance in SAM.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide on what you must know to register your entity for grants and federal assistance in SAM (opens in new tab).

Quick Start Guides for Registering Entities in an Organizational Hierarchy

Description:A short reference guide on the approval process to register an entity which is part of a larger organization.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide to get started registering an entity which is part of a larger organization (opens in new tab).

Quick Start Guides for Exclusions

Description: Understanding the SAM Exclusions Extract.

Click here to download PDF for a short document to support your use of the SAM Exclusions Extract (opens in new tab).

Description: Managing Exclusions.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide on what you must know about exclusion changes in SAM (opens in new tab).

Description: How to Search for Exclusions.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference on how to search for exclusions (opens in new tab).

Quick Start Guides for Federal Administrators

Description: A short reference guide explaining what you can do as the administrator of a federal entity in SAM.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide explaining what you can do as the administrator of a federal entity in SAM (opens in new tab).

Quick Start Guides for Non-Federal Administrators

Description: A short reference guide explaining what you can do as the administrator of a non-federal entity in SAM.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide explaining what you can do as the administrator of a non-federal entity in SAM (opens in new tab).

Quick Start Guides for Federal Employees

Description: A short reference guide explaining what you can do as a federal user of SAM.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide explaining what you can do as a federal user of SAM (opens in new tab).

Quick Start Guides for Search

Description: A short reference guide to help you with various types of searches you may need to perform in SAM.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide to help you with various types of searches you may need to perform in SAM (opens in new tab).

Description: A short reference guide to help you search for small businesses in SAM.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide to help you search for registrations using small business size determination status (opens in new tab).

Description: A short reference guide to help you use the advanced search for entity registrations.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide to help you use the advanced search for entity registrations (opens in new tab).

Description: A short reference guide to help you use the advanced search for exclusion records.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide to help you use the advanced search for exclusion records (opens in new tab).

Description: A short reference guide to help you search for businesses on the Disaster Response Registry.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide to help you search for businesses on the Disaster Response Registry (opens in new tab).

Quick Start Guide for BioPreferred Reporting

Description: A short reference guide to help you understand BioPreferred Reporting.

Click here to download PDF for a short reference guide to help you understand BioPreferred Reporting (opens in new tab).

Helpful Hints for Government Users

Description: Guidance for government users in finding information in SAM.

Government User Guidance on Small Business Information in SAM

Government User - Identifying Excluded Entities in SAM

Identifying Entities Registered for Contracts

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