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The Government Award Management (AM) solution is built on the Appian low-code platform and helps your organization monitor, track, and complete the activities, actions, and workflows associated with your award contracts.
This guide provides how-to instructions for installing the Award Management (AM) solution, which consists of six main steps and three optional steps:
Before starting the installation process, review the System Requirements to ensure all minimum requirements are met.
To install AM, you'll need to download the software package that contains the following files you'll use in the remaining setup steps.
To download the software package:
AwardManagementv24.2.2.0.0.zip
to access the software installation files.You must deploy the following plug-ins for the AM solution to work. The steps for deploying plug-ins differ for an Appian Cloud or self-managed environment. Be sure to note which deployment steps you need for your environment.
Appian Solutions
Content Tools
Advanced Document Templating
Dynamic Document Generator
To deploy the plug-ins for an Appian Cloud environment:
Appian Solutions
.Content Tools
Advanced Document Templating
Dynamic Document Generator
To deploy the plug-ins for a self-managed environment:
Download the following plug-ins directly from the Appian AppMarket:
Follow the Deploying Plug-ins instructions to deploy each plug-in.
To create the structure for the database tables, views and other objects that are a part of the AM application, you will need to run a DDL script in your database.
To create the database objects:
In your database, run the 01.AwardManagement2.0.0.sql
DDL file downloaded in Step 1.
The final step required is to install the robotic tasks for the AM application into the target environment.
To import and configure RPA:
Next, you will need to install the AM application by importing the application files into the target environment.
To import the application:
AwardManagementv2.0.0.zip
file downloaded in Step 1.AwardManagementv2.0.0.properties
file downloaded in Step 1.
Note: If the business database is not called Appian
, a warning will occur when importing the data stores. After the import completes, open each data store object and update the Data Source dropdown list to fix this issue.
Award Management comes with an optional integration to SAM.gov that allows you to pull public data into your Award Management solution. Follow the Setting SAM.gov Integration instructions to configure the API integration.
An optional integration between Award Management and Vendor Management connects the two solutions, providing vendors and contracting personnel with more visibility into the award process. When enabled, this integration enables contracting officers to see vendor information directly in their AM environment.
Follow the Setting up VM integration instructions to configure the VM integration.
Award Management also comes with an optional Process HQ integration to provide deeper insights into your award data and processes.
Follow the Setting up Process HQ integration instructions to configure the Process HQ integration.
Award Management 1.8 introduced a new way to manage document folders, which requires a migration of the existing data. If you are upgrading from Award Management 1.7 or earlier to Award Management 1.8 or later, you have the choice to allow the system to migrate the data automatically or run a manual migration at your convenience.
Note: Complete all deployment steps for AM 1.8 before migrating the existing data.
Before deploying AM 1.8 or later, you need to decide which data migration option works best for your organization, automatic or manual migration, then follow the steps in this section that correspond to your chosen migration path.
To allow the system to start the data migration automatically at 12 AM ET:
true
for the AS_AM_BOOL_SWITCH_DB_FOLDER_MIGRATION
constant.
AS AM ZZZ 1.8 Award Folder DB Migration
completed without error.After successfully deploying AM 1.8 or later, if you want to manually start the migration process:
false
for the constant AS_AM_BOOL_SWITCH_DB_FOLDER_MIGRATION
.AS AM ZZZ 1.8 Award Folder DB Migration - MANUAL
process model.AS AM ZZZ 1.8 Award Folder DB Migration - MANUAL
completed without error..After the deployment and migration are complete, manually set the value of AS_AM_BOOL_SWITCH_DB_FOLDER_MIGRATION
to false
. This ensures that the scheduled migration process will not unintentionally restart.
Installing Award Management