Agencies are required to maintain a list of suppliers that are listed as debarred or otherwise ineligible to do business with federal agencies. Using the action Verify Vendor Eligibility, you can integrate with SAM (System for Award Management) to check if a supplier is eligible to do business or has been debarred. The approval of the award, IDV or solicitation will continue, regardless of the supplier status. Select the Verify Vendor Eligibility action from the Actions list of values, and click Go.

The Verify Vendor Eligibility page displays with the following regions: Vendor Eligibility Details, and Vendor Eligibility History.

The Vendor Eligibility Details region displays the vendor information, along with the Status (Eligible or not), (Eligibility Check) Performed On and Performed By. The Supplier Name, Supplier Site and DUNS Number are displayed from the document (award, IDV or solicitation) by default. The Related Offers field displays with a value only if the award or IDV has been created from a solicitation that has offers, or a solicitation for which the supplier has provided an offer or quote.

Click the Verify Vendor Eligibility button to integrate with SAM (System for Award Management - the FAR website) and check if the vendor is eligible to do business or has been debarred. The Status field displays the value Submitted. This process of sending the vendor eligibility request to SAM, and getting a response, may take some time, and you can click the Refresh button to ensure that the latest updates are reflected on the Verify Vendor Eligibility page. If the supplier is eligible to do business, the Status field changes to Eligible, otherwise it displays Ineligible. If there are any errors while processing the request to or from SAM, the Error field displays the error that occurred.

If you wish to approve a vendor without going through the process of verifying the eligibility of the vendor in SAM, select the Approved Without Checkbox. The Exception Reason list of values displays, and you need to select an exception reason for approving the supplier without performing the vendor eligibility check.

The Vendor Eligibility History region displays the history of submissions or exceptions that you performed for vendor eligibility check.

Save your work and then return to the CLM document page, where you can continue with the rest of the CLM document processing.