This content applies solely to Government Clause Automation, which must be purchased separately from the Appian base platform. This content was written for Appian 24.1 and may not reflect the interfaces or functionality of other Appian versions. |
The Government Clause Automation Solution contains a wide range of features that allow our contracting professionals can easily create and update clauses for their solicitations and awards. The tables below provides a quick reference of the solution's available features by functional area.
Note: Only business users with the appropriate group membership can access and modify certain solution settings. This ensures that only a select few have access to sensitive processes and information.
Area | Feature | Description | User/Group Access | GCA Version | Appian Platform* |
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Clause Automation Site | Clause Set Summary Landing Page | A view of clause sets highlighting My Clause Sets and All. | CO, CS, CM, Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | Create Clause Set Wizard | A guided process to get required, applicable, and optional clauses needed based on contract details, templates, and a questionnaire. | CO, CS, CM, Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | Copy Clause Set Clauses | Ability to copy an existing clause set as the starting point for creating a new one. | CO, CS, CM, Privileged User | 2.2+ | 23.4+ |
Clause Automation Site | Fill-in Wizard | A guided process to complete fill-ins in clauses | CO, CS, CM, Privileged User | 1.4+ | 21.4+ |
Clause Automation Site | Finalize Clause Set | Ability to validate and finalize the clause set to create the supplement clause document. | CO, CS, CM, Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | Validate Clause Set | Ability to validate the clauses have the fill-in data, have been edited, and are the most recent version. | CO, CS, CM, Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | View Document | Ability to view draft or finalized document. | CO, CS, CM, Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | Exclude Clauses | Ability to exclude a clause from the clause set using a questionnaire rule or template. Select whether to maintain edits in the original clause set or complete all new fill-ins. | CO, CS, CM, Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | Remove Clauses | Ability to remove a clause from the clause set and provide a reason for required clauses. | CO, CS, CM, Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | Edit Clauses (from clause set) | Ability to edit clauses in a clause set and provide fills-in. | CO, CS, CM, Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | View Clause | Ability to view the clause and prescription text for a clause in the clause set. | CO, CS, CM, Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | Create Award from Solicitation | Ability to create an award clause from from a finalized solicitation clause set | CO, CS, CM | 1.9+ | 23.1+ |
Clause Automation Site | Add Clause | Ability to create new clauses to be used in clause sets | Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | Import Clauses | Ability to import clause data using either a structured spreadsheet or a zip file | Privileged User | 1.6+ | 22.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | Sync with Acquisition.gov | Initiate sync with Acquisition.gov to get the latest FAR clauses. Can be run on an individual clause or all clauses. | Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | Sync with DFARS Acquisition.gov | Initiate a sync with Acquisition.gov to get the latest DFARS clauses. Can be run on an individual clause or all clauses. | Privileged User | 2.4+ | 24.1+ |
Clause Automation Site | Edit Clause (from Clauses page) | Ability to update clauses, clause text, and provide an alternate clause value and base clause title to be used in clause sets going forward. | Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | Add Fill-Ins | Ability to add fill-ins to individual clauses. | Privileged User | 1.4+ | 21.4+ |
Clause Automation Site | Create Template | Ability to create reusable templates for the clause set wizard. | Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | Create Question | Ability to create questions that can be included in questionnaires, with resulting answers used as conditions in rules. | Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | Create Questionnaire | Ability to create questionnaires that organize and manage a series of questions presented to users as part of the clause set wizard. | Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | Create Rule | Ability to create rules that define clauses to be included or excluded in the clause set wizard based on clause set details or answers to questions | Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Clause Automation Site | View detailed clause inclusion reason | Ability to view a detailed reason why a clause was included in a clause set | CO, CS, CM, Privileged User | 2.4+ | 24.1+ |
Clause Automation Site | Custom Clause Fill-ins | Ability to add custom fill-ins to any clause reference data | Privileged User | 1.8+ | 22.4+ |
Clause Automation Site | Custom Fill-in Recommendations | Ability to add custom recommendations for a fill-in | Privileged User | 1.8+ | 22.4+ |
Clause Automation Site | Create Award Clause Set from Solicitation | Create an award clause set from an existing solicitation clause set | CO, CS, CM | 1.9+ | 23.1+ |
Clause Automation Site | Change Clause from IBR to Full Text in Clause Set | Ability to change a clause from IBR to full text within a clause set | CO, CS, CM | 2.1+ | 23.4+ |
Records | Clause | Defines important clause information as well as clause text | CO, CS, CM, Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Records | Clause Set | Defines clause set information, clauses included in the clause set, and clause text specific to the clause set(including fill-ins) | CO, CS, CM, Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Records | Rules | Defines rules applied when creating clause set to determine clauses to include or exclude. Rules are based on clause set details or answers to questions | Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Records | Questions | Defines questions to be used in questionnaires | Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Records | Questionnaires | Defines a collection of questions and how they are presented to users in the clause set wizard in terms of categorization, order, etc. | Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Records | Templates | Defines static templates to include or exclude specific clauses in a clause set | Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Integrations | Acquisition.gov | Ability to retrieve updated FAR clause data from the Acquisition.gov Github repository | Privileged User | 1.0+ | 21.2+ |
Integrations | Acquisition.gov | Ability to retrieve updated DFARS clause data from the Acquisition.gov Github repository | Privileged User | 2.4+ | 24.1+ |
Solutions Hub | Acquisition Weekly Sync Schedule | Ability to define the schedule for the automated Acquisition.gov sync | Privileged User | 1.2+ | 21.3+ |
Solutions Hub | Enable/Disable Acquisition Github Sync | Ability to enable or disable the Acqusition.gov Github integration. Disabling the integration will remove all front-end references to Acquisition.gov | Privileged User | 1.6+ | 22.2+ |
*Denotes the supported Appian platform version for the corresponding solution feature.
GCA Features