The main purpose of ICD is to help agencies take advantage of interagency contracts by supporting market research and the identification of suitable contracts that can facilitate the efficient and effective placement of orders, including with small and disadvantaged businesses. The new ICD will strengthen both of these goals by making the tool more intuitive and easier to use.

New version of ICD can be accessed at https://www.contractdirectory.gov/

Following are some of the major enhacements:

FPDS-NG is upgrading display the ISO 3-character country for Place of Performance Country (9C) and Country of Product or Service Origin (9E) data elements

FPDS-NG is upgrading so that only the 3 character ISO Country codes for the "Place of Performance Country" and "Country of Product or Service Origin" data elements will be accepted going forward. Previously we accepted non-ISO codes and converted.

A new National Interest Action value ‘Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)’ has been added to track the OEF contracts.

For Web Portal users the value ‘Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)' is available for selection in the National Interest Action field dropdown. The Contract Writing systems shall use the code ‘O12F’ when creating/updating documents through Business Services.

National Interest Action value ‘Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)’ is valid from 10/01/2011 to 09/30/2014.

As part of Phase II deployment 18 standard reports has been enhanced  on December 15, 2011

Now you can

• Retrieve data for 5 years
• Get the result in few seconds
• Drill down by Fiscal year
• Export 30,000 records for analysis

Click here for the list of standard reports.