# 2025-01755: Notarize Your Fed Contract Boss: GSA's Fraud-Fighting Fix

2025-01755, Submission for OMB Review; Notarized Document Submittal for System for Award Management-New Entity Administrator Appointments, is a Federal Register notice from General Services Administration published 2025-01-27; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-21).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-01755
- Title: Submission for OMB Review; Notarized Document Submittal for System for Award Management-New Entity Administrator Appointments
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: General Services Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 8221
- Published: 2025-01-27
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-09-21

## In one line

Notarize Your Fed Contract Boss: GSA's Fraud-Fighting Fix

## Summary

The government is updating how new company leaders sign up in the System for Award Management (SAM) to stop fraud and make things smoother. Now, only new leaders replacing old ones need to send notarized papers, not every new company. This change helps keep the system safe without extra hassle and invites public feedback by February 26, 2025.

## Abstract

Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Regulatory Secretariat Division will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve a revision to an existing OMB clearance regarding a notarized document submittal for System for Award Management (SAM) Registration.

## Effects PRIA read

- Notarized Letter Requirement Narrowed: benefit, medium. GSA will limit the notarized Entity Administrator Appointment Letter (EAAL) requirement so it is used only to establish an Entity Administrator for an existing SAM.gov entity when the previous administrator is no longer on staff, instead of collecting it for all new entities. This refines the prior…
- Time to Create and Upload EAAL: cost, low. An individual seeking Entity Administrator access is provided a template and is estimated to take 0.5 hours to create the notarized letter and 0.25 hours to upload it to the Federal Service Desk; GSA used an hourly rate of $25.06 for the government staff equivalent in its burden calculations. These…
- Small Entities May Face External Notary Costs: cost, medium. GSA estimates about 31,500 small entities per year will need external notary services; those entities are estimated to require about 1 hour for signature/notarization and face a nominal third-party notary fee of $5.00, with a projected signing officer hourly rate of about $100.
- Large Entities Use In‑House Notarization: cost, low. GSA estimates about 58,500 of the 90,000 annual entities without an Entity Administrator will have in-house notaries; those entities are projected to spend about 0.5 hours of an executive/officer’s time to sign and notarize internally, using an average projected hourly rate of about $150.
- Annual Burden and Response Estimates Published: mixed, low. GSA reports annual reporting burden estimates of 139,027 respondents, 1 response per respondent, 139,027 total annual responses, 0.5 hours per response, and 69,513 total annual burden hours for this information collection (OMB Control No. 3090-0317).

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## Sources
- [2025-01755 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/27/2025-01755/submission-for-omb-review-notarized-document-submittal-for-system-for-award-management-new-entity)
- [2025-01755 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-27/pdf/2025-01755.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-01755 (as of 2026-09-21).