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What changed for SAM.gov registrants since 2025

Three checked changes since 2025: FAR 52.204-7 at offer and award, two FAR thresholds, and SBA's renamed search.

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FAR 52.204-7: registered at the offer and at the award

FAR 52.204-7, “System for Award Management (Nov 2024),” is a solicitation provision. When a solicitation includes it, its paragraph (b)(1) says: “An Offeror is required to be registered in SAM when submitting an offer or quotation and at time of award.”

In plain words: a business that responds to that solicitation is to be registered in SAM.gov on the day it sends its offer or quotation, and again on the day of the award.

The rule behind this wording became final on August 7, 2025, the day it was published in the Federal Register as document 2025-14990. It adopted, without changes, an interim rule of November 2024, which is why the provision's own date still reads Nov 2024.

The FAR overhaul keeps the rule. Its Part 4, issued on August 14, 2025, asks in 4.203-1(b) for an active registration when an offer or quote is submitted and at the time of award, and its Part 52 retitles 52.204-7 “System for Award Management—Registration”. GSA adopted that Part 4 effective November 3, 2025, and the Department of Defense effective February 17, 2026; the codified text above still stands for an agency that has not adopted it.

Two FAR thresholds went up on October 1, 2025

On October 1, 2025, two thresholds defined in FAR 2.101, the Federal Acquisition Regulation's list of definitions, went up: the micro-purchase threshold and the simplified acquisition threshold.

The micro-purchase threshold is now $15,000, and the simplified acquisition threshold is now $350,000.

Each definition lists exceptions for some kinds of purchases. FAR 2.101 on acquisition.gov gives them in full.

DSBS is now SBA's Small Business Search

SBA's search of small business profiles, once the Dynamic Small Business Search (DSBS), is now called Small Business Search (SBS). It is at search.certifications.sba.gov, and the old address, dsbs.sba.gov, takes you there. SBA's pages give no date for the change, so we give none.

SAM.gov's own help still uses the old name. On October 6, 2026, its article on updating or renewing a registration (KB0016307) and its quick start guide for updating a registration both said DSBS. SBA calls SBS the former Dynamic Small Business Search, so it is the same search under a new name.

Our post on SBA's Small Business Search says more.

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