I’ve been a PTAC advisor for over five years. In that time, I’ve helped a lot of federal contractors register their entities in the System for Award Management (SAM), but I’ve also had the opportunity to review many entity registrations that contractors completed (or attempted to complete) themselves. This is a list of some of the more frequent mistakes I see contractors make when they do not have assistance with their SAM registration.

This list is not based on any scientific research, but simply my observations. I have numbered them based on where the mistake occurs in the registration, not on the frequency of occurrence.

-Phillip Luebke