Post Award Requests, as the name suggests, are documents created after the award is approved. These documents capture the required changes to the approved award. With post award requests, contracting professionals do not have to go through the more formal cycle of creating modification documents immediately. When the post award request is created, capturing the changes to the award that are required, and after it is approved, it can be merged with the modification document. Thus post award request documents are interim documents that enable contracting professionals to make changes on an award and then create modification documents which capture the same changes from the post award request documents.

Post award requests are similar to purchase requisitions, however, unlike purchase requisitions that are created before the award, post award requests are created after the award is approved.

Requesters usually initiate change requests for an approved award. When the change request is approved by the relevant approvers, a post award request is created for the award. Then the Contract Administrator, who manages requests for changes to an existing contract from various sources, incorporates the changes from the post award request to a modification.

The post award request is similar to a modification document and thus the attributes at header, line, schedule, distribution, pay item level are mostly the same for post award requests and for modifications. Post award requests can commit funds (in a manner similar to purchase requests) or make any other changes to the award as well.

You can create any number of post award request documents for an award, as long as the award has a status of Approved. If the award is closed, you cannot create a post award request for the award. The post award request is linked to, and used to create the same award modification. The information in post award request document can be in a single or multiple modification documents; also, the information in multiple post award request documents can be a single or multiple modification documents.