Decommission of 'Old' FAADC ATOM Feeds

As part of FPDS Service Pack 13, the UEI (DUNS) element shall be decommissioned, and the UEI (SAM) (now referred to as ‘Unique Entity ID’) shall be the sole entity identifier for all records. With this change, entity identifier information related to UEI (DUNS) will no longer appear in Atom Feeds.

As applicable entity information will only be displayed on FAADC V1.1 Atom Feeds and beyond, the following FAADC V1.0 Atom Feeds shall be decommissioned along with the FPDS Service Pack 13 deployment schedule:

  • Beta Decommission Date: 3/11/2022
    • V1.0 Assistance Feed
    • V1.0 Assistance Deleted Feed
  • Prod Decommission Date: 4/2/2022
    • V1.0 Assistance Feed
    • V1.0 Assistance Deleted Feed

After 4/2/2022, only Version 1.1 of the Assistance and Assistance Deleted Atom Feeds will be available for use. For additional information regarding FPDS V1.5 Service Pack 13, including the content and associated implementation dates and Government Acceptance Testing dates, the Service Pack Release notes can be accessed at the following link: https://www.fpds.gov/wiki/index.php/V1.5_SP_13.0