FedBizOpps is the single point of entry for Federal buyers to publish Federal government procurement opportunities across departments and agencies. US Federal Government complex contracting and procurement business processes require that all opportunities over a certain amount, must be posted to FedBizOpps, where suppliers seeking Federal markets for their products and services can search, monitor, and retrieve opportunities solicited by the entire Federal contracting community.
CLM supports FAR, DFARS, and other agency regulations that define the federal business processes, and encompasses a full procure-to-pay process flow within Oracle e-Business Suite which maximizes benefits to federal users. CLM enables contracting officers to drive operational excellence in federal procurement functions and enables the agencies to cut procurement costs dramatically. By providing the end-to-end business intelligence with a single source of data, CLM provides data transparency and visibility and provides contracting officers with support for strategic planning and improved decision making.
As a buyer, you need to post the following types of notices:
Presolicitation Notice - Synopsis: FAR requires the submission of this document before the publication of any further actions.
Modification to a Previous Presolicitation Notice: Any changes to a presolicitation Notice can be posted when there is a previous presolicitation notice as well.
Combined Synopsis/Solicitation: When a written solicitation is issued, the contracting officer may combine the synopsis and the issuance of the solicitation into a single document.
Amendment to a Previous Combined Solicitation: This notice is used for the publication of amendments or corrections to a previously announced (posted) combined solicitation action.
Sources Sought Notice: The Sources Sought template is used when determining the availability of commercial sources under the procedures prescribed in FAR. The intent of this government contract activity is to identify potential qualified small businesses that can perform a specific service.
Secure Technical Document Package Notice: Document Packages are groups of attachments that support opportunities.
When a presolicitation notice is posted to FedBizOpps, a notification is sent to the requester, providing the notice details.
When publishing a solicitation amendment, the system checks whether the presolicitation notice is published for the corresponding base document. If it is published for the base document, then the document upload for amendments is done successfully.
If the presolicitation notice is not posted, however, the notice is posted successfully for the amendment, then the Document Upload fails, telling you that the presolicitation notice is not posted.
Attachments region:
Document Packages are group of attachments that support opportunities. Secure Technical Document Packages consist of sensitive attachments that can be associated to Solicitations and transmitted to FedBizOpps. Use the attachments region in the solicitation header to attach one or more files to the solicitation. The notice and the attachments are transmitted to FebBizOpps using web services. The following attachments can be added to your notice and solicitation:
To FedBizOpps (only for Document Upload notice)
Combined Synopsis Solicitation - To FedBizOpps
Presolicitation - To FedBizOpps
Sensitive - To FedBizOpps (is sent with the Secure Technical Document Packages only)
Sources Sought - To FedBizOpps
Note: To Supplier attachments are selected for Document Upload notices only.
When you create a solicitation, navigate to the Header page and scroll down to the Abstract and Forms region. This region enables you to associate a notice to the solicitation document. Click Add Another Row to open the Name LOV and to select a notice. The selected notice is displayed in the row. Click Enter Date to enable the application to pre-fill data elements on the form from the solicitation document. Save the document by clicking Apply and generate the XML or post the notice to FedbizOpps by clicking Post. After you successfully post the solicitation details to FedbizOpps, the application updates the Date Sent field with the date of posting of the notice.
Note: You can post notices at all times irrespective of the status of the document, except document upload notices which cannot be posted in draft status.
In the Abstract and Forms region, click the View Data icon to see the notice details. Click the Posting Details icon to view the FedBizOpps Posting Details page. The Form Type can be any notice mentioned above (for example, Presolicitation Notice, Sources Sought Notice, etc). The generated XML information is also displayed in the fields, along with the hyperlinked XML file in the View XML column. Posting Status, Posting Date and Message are also populated if the posting process is without errors. Otherwise the Posting Status displays an error.
The Solicitation Publication region enables you to provide an exception reason if you are not posting the solicitation to FedBizOpps. The Exception Reason LOV enables you to select a reason for not posting the solicitation to FedBizOpps.
When you create a solicitation amendment, the forms/notices associated with the base solicitation are not copied over to the amendment. When a solicitation amendment is conformed with the base document and published, the FedBizOpps forms/notices associated with the amendment are not copied over to the conformed copy of the solicitation which is in Active status.
See: Abstracts and Forms to learn more about how abstracts and forms are used to integrate with FedbizOpps.
See: Integrating with FedBizOpps section in the Contract Lifecycle Management for Public Sector Implementation Guide for information on how to set up the integration.