The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) retired the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) Subaward Reporting System (FSRS), FSRS.gov, on March 6, 2025. FSRS.gov was the tool used by grantees of federal funds to report on subaward and compensation data as required by FFATA, i.e., Subaward Reporting. Subaward Reporting will now be done in SAM.gov.
Signed into law in 2006, FFATA requires information about federal awards to be posted on a single, searchable website that is open for public access, which is USASpending.gov. FFATA’s key reporting requirements are:
- Prime Contractors: Report subawards of more than $30,000 by the end of the month after the award.
- Prime Grant Recipients: Report subawards of $30,000 or more.
- Executive Compensation: Report the top five executives’ compensation if:
- The entity gets 80% or more of its revenue from federal awards.
- The entity gets $25 million or more in annual revenue from federal awards.
- The public can’t access this compensation information elsewhere.
USAspending.gov is the official open data source of federal spending information, including information about federal awards such as contracts, grants, and loans. The website allows users to:
- Explore federal spending data through interactive tools and visualizations.
- Search for specific federal awards, such as grants, contracts, and loans.
- Download data sets.
- Access resources to understand the data and its context.
The transition from FSRS.gov to SAM.gov means that the FSRS system will no longer be available after the end of the business day on March 6, 2025. Data entered and saved into FSRS.gov by the deadline will be moved to SAM.gov and will be available beginning March 8, 2025.
Per SAM.gov as of March 8, 2025, “all new subaward reporting and viewing functionality will be available in SAM.gov. Users will be required to have the correct role in SAM.gov to be able to access the new subaward reporting capabilities. They will need their SAM.gov entity administrator to assign them the new role.”
This transition is an effort by the GSA in its ongoing work to streamline disparate reporting systems into one unified SAM.gov system. The GSA hopes this will result in an improved user experience for subaward reporters. This transition should primarily impact FSRS.gov and USASpending.gov users. SAM.gov entity administrators also will be impacted as they’ll be required to grant new roles to their reporting staff. They’ll also need to update their staff with the appropriate permissions.
The federal government hopes to modernize its reporting interface and streamline its footprint with less reporting systems. According to the GSA, through the transition, the federal government hopes users will be able to:
- Manage reporting for all their Unique Entity IDs from one account.
- Share reporting responsibilities across their team.
- Maintain and exert more control over report management.
- Leverage the power of data in SAM.gov to reduce reporting burden.
- Reduce duplicate reporting and report frequency with system checks that warn of potential issues.
- Improve federal funding transparency.
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