Release Notes

Federal Procurement Data System – Next Generation

Service Pack 59.0

For Versions: 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2

FINAL

BETA Installation Date: May 5, 2008

Production Installation Date: May 16, 2008

Prepared by:

Global Computer Enterprises, Inc.

10780 Parkridge Boulevard, Suite 300

Reston, VA 20191

May 16, 2008

FPDS-NG Version 1.2, Service Pack 59.0 Release Notes

Table of Contents

Section Page

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Overview 1

1.2 Documentation 1

1.3 Impact to Users 1

1.4 Impact to Integrators 1

1.5 FPDS-NG Updates and Notices 1

1.6 Support Line 1

2 Bug Fixes Completed 2

3 Reports 5

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FPDS-NG Version 1.2, Service Pack 59.0 Release Notes

1  Introduction

1.1  Overview

This document describes the enhancements and changes made to the FPDS-NG system in the software release for Service Pack 59.0. The Software Problem Report (SPR) tracking number is included for each change.

1.2  Documentation

Changes to documentation required by this version included:

·  XML Specifications – The XML Specifications have not been modified for this service pack.

·  Web Services – Web Services have not been modified for this service pack.

·  Data Dictionary – The Data Dictionary has not been modified for this service pack.

·  NASA Specific Data Dictionary – The NASA Data Dictionary has not been modified for this service pack.

·  Use Case Summary – The Use Case Summary has not been modified for this service pack.

·  Validation Rules – The Validation Rules have been modified for this service pack.

·  Online Help – Online Help has been modified for this service pack.

·  Computer-Based Training – The Computer-Based Training modules have not been modified for this service pack.

·  Report Manual – The Reports Manual has not been modified for this service pack.

For more information on 1.0, 1.1, or 1.2 version changes, please visit the project website located at http://www.fpdsng.com/downloads.html.

1.3  Impact to Users

The impact to the users is addressed for each change made to the system.

1.4  Impact to Integrators

The impact to the integrators is addressed for each change made to the system.

1.5  FPDS-NG Updates and Notices

All updates and notices are posted to the FPDS-NG website at http://www.fpdsng.com/downloads.html. The most recent updates and anticipated changes are posted at http://www.fpds-ng.com/status.html.

1.6  Support Line

If you have questions about the FPDS-NG system, please call the FPDS-NG Support Line at (703) 390-5360 or (866) 490-3737. You may fax us at (703) 390-5365 or visit the FPDS-NG website at https://www.fpds.gov.

2  Bug Fixes Completed

SPR Number / Description
FPDSNG-3150 / The label for the data element 9E “Country of Product Origin” will be changed to "Country of Product or Service Origin". For all award and IDV screens, data dictionary, help files and validation rules the label for data element 9E will be changed to "Country of Product or Service Origin".
Impact Analysis for Users and Integrators
Batch / No Impact
GUI Interface / The screen name for “Country of Product Origin” will be changed to "Country of Product or Service Origin".
Business Services / No Impact
Reports and Report Services / No Impact
Data Dissemination / No Impact
SPR Number / Description
FPDSHD-36015, FPDSHD-37912 / When correcting a base document and removing the values from any not required data element, the changes for removing the values are not propagating to all subsequent modifications. This happens specifically with the Extent Competed and other data elements that are not required columns.
Impact Analysis for Users and Integrators
Batch / No Impact
GUI Interface / No Impact. The changes on the base documents will be propagated to all the modifications.
Business Services / No Impact. The changes on the base documents will be propagated to all the modifications.
Reports and Report Services / No Impact
Data Dissemination / No Impact
SPR Number / Description
FPDSHD-37620, FPDSHD-23248 / Problem: For the Department of Defense, the extent competed column is not derived when correcting final documents when the document has a date signed prior to fiscal year 2004.
Solution: Derive the Extent Competed column for the pre-fiscal year 2004 documents for Department of Defense. The derivation is working properly if the prepared date of the document is on or later than January 26, 2006. For documents with a prepared date prior to January 26, 2006 the system will not derive the extent competed.
Explanation: The derivations for Department of Defense are currently based on the prepared date of the document. All derivations and rule changes that were installed with the DOD PRD on January 24, 2006 contained a condition that no documents prior to that date would use the derivations. This condition still exists in the rules framework and derivations. This will be corrected in a future service pack.
Impact Analysis for Users and Integrators
Batch / No Impact
GUI Interface / No Impact. The extent competed derivations will be fixed for DOD when the document has a date signed prior to FY2004.
Business Services / No Impact. The extent competed derivations will be fixed for DOD when the document has a date signed prior to FY2004.
Reports and Report Services / No Impact
Data Dissemination / No Impact
SPR Number / Description
FPDSHD-38733 / All delivery orders for the Department of Defense are pulling ‘No set-aside used” in the type of set-aside column. For Department of defense, the set-aside should be populated from the referenced IDV. In the specific case where there is no set-aside that can be pulled from the IDV, no set-aside value will be used.
Impact Analysis for Users and Integrators
Batch / No Impact
GUI Interface / No Impact
Business Services / No Impact
Reports and Report Services / No Impact
Data Dissemination / No Impact
SPR Number / Description
FPDSHD-39229 / When using the 1.2 users services to update users, users are receiving the following error "Mandatory element "organizationID" is missing." This does not occur through the front end, but when uses the business services only when the organization id is not provided and the agency code has not changed.
Impact Analysis for Users and Integrators
Batch / No Impact
GUI Interface / No Impact
Business Services / The business services will be fixed to not throw the mandatory validation errors.
Reports and Report Services / No Impact
Data Dissemination / No Impact
SPR Number / Description
FPDSHD-34834 / Users are receiving an error when updating existing user IDs, if the user does not have the enable privileges through the 1.2 users web services. FPDSNG returns error Code 2628 "The logged-in user does not have the privilege for "User Enable".
Impact Analysis for Users and Integrators
Batch / No Impact
GUI Interface / No Impact
Business Services / No Impact
Reports and Report Services / No Impact
Data Dissemination / No Impact
SPR Number / Description
FPDSHD-17722 / While assigning privileges to user IDs, when a user selects only a single privilege under a user role to add, then the remaining privileges are erased.
Impact Analysis for Users and Integrators
Batch / No Impact
GUI Interface / The issue to not erase the existing privileges will be fixed.
Business Services / The issue to not erase the existing privileges will be fixed.
Reports and Report Services / No Impact
Data Dissemination / No Impact
SPR Number / Description
FPDSNG-3306 / The following reports will be posted on FPDS-NG main log in screen:
·  Top 100 Federal Contractors Report FY 2006
·  Federal Procurement Report FY 2006
Impact Analysis for Users and Integrators
Batch / No Impact
GUI Interface / No Impact
Business Services / No Impact
Reports and Report Services / No Impact
Data Dissemination / No Impact

3  Reports

SPR Number / Description
FPDSNG-2822 / FPDS-NG will be adding the Department of Defense’s organizational hierarchy and functional dimensions as a drill down paths for the Status of Actions Report. We are also adding the agency, department, commands, region and contracting office to the RCRA report search criteria screen as optional search criteria.
The Status of Actions Report is a system admin report. It provides information on the number of contracts that are error, draft and void status.
Impact Analysis for Users and Integrators
Batch / No Impact
GUI Interface / No Impact
Business Services / No Impact
Reports and Report Services / The Status of Actions Report will be updated with new search criteria and the DOD organizational hierarchy.
Data Dissemination / No Impact
SPR Number / Description
FPDSHD-38434 / The FPDS-NG standard and adhoc reporting is currently excluding documents from the reports, if the date signed of the document does not fall between the beginning and ending date of the place of manufacture zip + 4 reference data code. This will be corrected to include all documents. The overall percentage of missing documents is about .05 on average.
Impact Analysis for Users and Integrators
Batch / No Impact
GUI Interface / No Impact
Business Services / No Impact
Reports and Report Services / No Impact
Data Dissemination / No Impact

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