How to register your business in SAM.gov

In broad terms: the legal name and physical address that match your business's records, the entity start date as those records show it, your fiscal year end, and the people the government can reach as points of contact. If your business was formed with your state, copy the legal name from the formation paperwork. The full list is in what to have ready before SAM.gov.

You will also need your own Login.gov account, in your own name. Nobody else may sign in as you. Tax identification numbers and banking details belong only in sam.gov's own forms — Firmenza never asks you to type those into a guide.

At stage level, a first registration is the same shape every time: you create or use your own Login.gov account, start a new entity registration in sam.gov, enter the entity facts and the other sections, answer each representation and certification yourself, submit, and watch the status afterward.

The matching step on the legal name and physical address is where first registrations most often stall — names and addresses that match goes through it. When you want company for the work, Firmenza's registration worksheet is on the copilot page; it explains each section in plain words while you fill it in yourself. It does not replace signing in on sam.gov.

You do. Each one is a statement you make to the United States Government about your own business. No software may answer one for you, and Firmenza does not: it explains what a question means and leaves the answer to you.

If a question turns on how big your business counts as, who owns and controls it, whether an affiliated business has to be counted with yours, whether anybody connected to it is excluded from federal awards, or lobbying, take it to a free counselor or an attorney. The card just below this guide names three free places to ask.

The registration is the same first step, but the purpose you choose matters: one that covers federal contracts, or a shorter one for grants and loans. Contracts, grants, or both explains the choice, and it says what an SBIR applicant confirms with the funding agency.

Firmenza can read the public part of a SAM.gov record once one exists, and can walk you through a worksheet in plain words while you enter the registration yourself. It never signs in as you, never submits to sam.gov, and never answers a certification for you.