Solicitation Writing System (SWS)

Goals and Objectives:

The Solicitation Writing System (SWS) is a web based (FAS/GSA Internal System) application that allows users to formulate a solicitation for publication out to the business community. SWS provides means to generate and publish Solicitations and their associated Synopsis and manage and maintain clauses used in Solicitations.
The current SWS system is positioned to merge into the Contract Acquisition Life-cycle Management System (CALM).

Solicitation Writing System (SWS) interfaces with the following systems/applications:

FSS 19/FSS - An online is a mainframe based Federal Acquisition Service/General Services Administration (FAS/GSA Internal System) system that supports the acquisition and procurement activities in FAS through various modules.
eOffer/eMod - The paperless means for GSA Federal Supply Service's vendor community to submit contract offers and contract modifications electronically. It is a system that allows submitting contract offers and contract modification requests to GSA Federal Supply Service online.
Offer Registration System - A web-based pre-award application that is used for offer registration, tracking, and awarding contracts. It is utilized by all Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Centers as the standard procurement system.
External applications - such as Public Building Services (PBS) Enterprise Acquisition System Integrated (EASi) interacts with SWS Regulation Management System (RMS) component, which provides clause management related services.

SWS has been deployed as a JEE application using a JBoss application server and a MySQL (RDS) database. Additionally, SWS uses the standard on-premise GSA SFTP and SMTP solutions to fill out its capability needs. Apart from supplying information to its sister applications (eOffer/eMod, ORS, FSSOnline) it similarly maintains connections to EDMS, ORCA and eBuy for information sharing. The diagram below more explicitly identifies the data sharing channels.