1. UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Only 4 Electronic Document Access (EDA) PDS Conformance Overview

2. UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Only 5 PDS Conformance The existence of PDS data is easily identified on the EDA Contract Query Results screen in the PDS column. All PDS data begins in PDS Evaluate (“E”). Once Evaluation data has been deemed PDS Compliant (“Y”) by the data owner, Awards will be merged with their PDS Modifications to create a Conformed Contract View (CCV). The most current CCV will be merged with the next modification in order as they arrive. After GeX Validation, valid files will be published in EDA and invalid/failed CCV files will not be loaded. A Load/Error Report will be created and available from both the Contract History screen ( click “H” link on the Contract Query Results screen ) and the Contract Conformance Log ( click link from the Contract History screen ). The Conformance Log will be used as a tool to facilitate researching conformance process issues, Contract writing issues, and validation issues.

3. UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Only PDS Conformance 6 Link to Contract History screen Link to Conformance Contract Log Y E PDS Link

4. UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Only PDS Conformance 7 Load/Error Report

5. UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Only PDS Conformance Flow PDS Award PDS Modification GeX Reported: “Failed–File issues” or “Failed-Validation” (CCV is not Loaded) GeX Reported: “Failed–File issues” or “Failed-Validation” (CCV is not Loaded) Invalid GeX Validates CCV GeX Validates CCV PDS Award PDS Modification GeX Reported: “Passed with warnings” or “Passed without errors (EDA Publishes CCV) GeX Reported: “Passed with warnings” or “Passed without errors (EDA Publishes CCV) Valid GeX Validates CCV GeX Validates CCV An Load/Error Report is created and is available on both the Contract History screen and the Conformance Process Log Click the Conformance Process Log link from the Contract History screen to view the detailed Conformance process events, reports and statuses of the entire contract CCV

6. UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Only 9 PDS Conformance Process The Contract Conformance Process includes the following steps:  EDA Receives a PDS Contract Modification  EDA Generates a PDS CCV File  GeX Validates a PDS CCV File  EDA Publishes/Displays the PDS CCV File Award/CCV and Modification compatibility