Appendix A to Part 25 - Award Term
2:1.1.1.2.2.4.1.22.1 : Appendix A
Appendix A to Part 25 - Award Term I. System for Award Management
and Universal Identifier Requirements A. Requirement for System for
Award Management
Unless you are exempted from this requirement under 2 CFR
25.110, you as the recipient must maintain current information in
the SAM. This includes information on your immediate and highest
level owner and subsidiaries, as well as on all of your
predecessors that have been awarded a Federal contract or Federal
financial assistance within the last three years, if applicable,
until you submit the final financial report required under this
Federal award or receive the final payment, whichever is later.
This requires that you review and update the information at least
annually after the initial registration, and more frequently if
required by changes in your information or another Federal award
term.
B. Requirement for Unique Entity Identifier
If you are authorized to make subawards under this Federal
award, you:
1. Must notify potential subrecipients that no entity
(see definition in paragraph C of this award term) may
receive a subaward from you until the entity has provided its
Unique Entity Identifier to you.
2. May not make a subaward to an entity unless the entity has
provided its Unique Entity Identifier to you. Subrecipients are not
required to obtain an active SAM registration, but must obtain a
Unique Entity Identifier.
C. Definitions
For purposes of this term:
1. System for Award Management (SAM) means the Federal
repository into which a recipient must provide information required
for the conduct of business as a recipient. Additional information
about registration procedures may be found at the SAM internet site
(currently at https://www.sam.gov).
2. Unique Entity Identifier means the identifier assigned
by SAM to uniquely identify business entities.
3. Entity includes non-Federal entities as defined at 2
CFR 200.1 and also includes all of the following, for purposes of
this part:
a. A foreign organization;
b. A foreign public entity;
c. A domestic for-profit organization; and
d. A Federal agency.
4. Subaward has the meaning given in 2 CFR 200.1.
5. Subrecipient has the meaning given in 2 CFR 200.1.
[85 FR 49525, Aug. 13, 2020, as amended at 86 FR 10439, Feb. 22,
2021]