Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Summary
The Office of Acquisition and Assistance (OAA) operates the Global Acquisition and Assistance System (GLAAS), a procurement system that supports acquisition and assistance management by automating all aspects of the procurement life cycle, including procurement planning, requisition, solicitation/funding opportunity, award, and closeout. GLAAS is an agency-wide implementation of a web-based, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) procurement solution.
GLAAS is an initiative by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that supports the Agency’s Acquisition and Assistance (A&A) management life cycle. GLAAS provides support for end-to-end A&A business processes performed by a wide variety of agency staff, from the development of the requisition, solicitation or funding opportunity, award, and award closeout. GLAAS pulls data from two systems of record only – Phoenix and SAM.
To maximize the efficiency of the agency staff, GLAAS provides automated interfaces with other systems that are critical to the A&A processes. GLAAS interfaces with:
- Phoenix, the Agency Financial Management System to process commitments and obligations associated with A&A actions.
- FedConnect and FedBizOps to post procurement business opportunities and receive proposals.
- Grants. gov to post synopses for funding opportunities for assistance.
- The Federal Procurement Data System – Next Generation (FPDS-NG) to post acquisition awards information.
- ASIST to post contract files.
- The Federal Assistance Award Data System (FAADS/FAADS Plus) to post grant and cooperative agreement award information.
GLAAS has existing MOUs and information sharing agreements (ISAs) with these systems.
