SAM.gov
The federal registration system every entity must be active in before it can receive a federal award, and the home of the assistance listings catalogue and the exclusions list. Registration is free, must be renewed annually, and takes weeks rather than days the first time.
Part of the GrantTrove grant funding glossary — one entry for every field the catalogue stores.
Also called System for Award Management
In detail
The lead time is the fact that costs organisations awards. Entity validation can take weeks on its own, and a deadline four weeks out is not enough time to start from nothing.
It is also the register an agency checks for exclusions before awarding. A debarred entity is visible there, and that check is not a formality. The same system holds the assistance listings catalogue, so the register an applicant must join and the catalogue describing what it may join for share an address.
Against our registration field
We do not store a registration requirement, and this is one of the entries whose fifth section names the field this is not. `elig_entity_types` names applicant classes; `elig_note` keeps eligibility wording the vocabulary cannot express. A registration status is a property of your organisation, checked in a live system, and a stale copy of it here would be worse than none.
How GrantTrove stores it
- Nothing about your organisation is stored. The record describes the opportunity, and eligibility is what the notice said about who may apply.
- The deadline fields — `deadline_at`, `deadline_type`, `deadline_note` — are the fields that let you see whether a first registration can plausibly be completed in time.
Common questions
How long does registration take?
Weeks, the first time, largely because of entity validation. Start before you find the grant, not after.
Does it cost anything?
No. Anyone charging you to register is selling you a service you can do yourself.
Do you check whether we are registered?
No. That is live data about your organisation and a copy of it here would go stale.