What's new in Award Management?

The Award Management (AM) 2.0 release notes provide an overview of the latest changes and improvements to the Award Management Solution. New features and improved capabilities were designed with best practices in mind.

Process HQ integration

We've integrated AM with Process HQ to help you gain more insight into your award data and processes so you can identify bottlenecks and make better decisions to improve your procurement workflows.

See Setting up Process HQ to configure this integration for your AM solution.

View vendor messages with new VM integration

We've leveraged the existing integration between Award Management and Vendor Management to provide a link from the award in AM to vendor messages in VM. This makes it easier and more efficient for users to reference any vendor messages related to a specific award.

See Setting up VM integration to configure this integration for your AM solution.

Advanced invoicing capabilities

We've expanded on the invoice capability updates from the previous release. In this release, we've added:

• A new user group for Finance Representatives that may need to interact with invoice data but don't fall in the normal contracting personnel groups.
• The ability to associate specific users with an invoice record.
• Support for review processes and tasks:
  • Predefine a review process based on the amount of the invoice.
  • Add ad-hoc review tasks to an invoice.

Contract file improvements

In this release, we've added the ability to modify active contract file structures. AM will retain the file structure for existing contracts, along with their documents, while also providing the flexibility to define new structures for new contracts moving forward.

These updates will allow you to:

• Create folders
• Create subfolders
• Edit the document type and text match for subfolders
• Delete folders and subfolders

Award import process improvements

We've made it easier to bulk upload award data in AM with two key updates:

1. Added more data fields to the award import template.
2. Added Import Award action to the Awards page.

These updates improve the award import process and help organizations save time and better manage their award data.

Appian RPA bots updated

The Small Business Association (SBA) research has been updated to use the latest Appian RPA bot technology. AM now has advanced RPA capabilities that allow users to submit a request to have a robotic task complete their vendor research. See Setting Up RPA Robot for specific steps to correctly install the robot.

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