The General Services Administration took an important step toward reducing its reliance on a proprietary business entity identifier system in government contracting.
The agency released a request for information on Feb. 13, 2017 in advance of the possible adoption of a new numbering system for “government-wide entity identification and validation services.”
Currently the federal contracting system relies on the Data Universal Numbering System, or DUNS number, from Dun & Bradstreet.
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