Authorized Negotiators are very important to understand so that all the correct people have appropriate access to your contract. Authorized Negotiators are legally allowed to talk with your contracting officer about your GSA contract. Whether this is for a contractor assessment, or to provide clarifications during a separate modification request. First let’s break down how to add them to your contract. Every time you want to add someone new, you will need to create an administrative modification request inside of eMod. There is a specific template that must be filled out, which can be found here. You may add multiple people at once, just make sure they are all included on that specific letter, and all their information is also manually typed in inside of eMod. These requests once submitted are normally approved within a day or two. When someone is added as an authorized negotiator, they will then immediately have access to your company’s eMod profile- this allows them to submit modification requests for the company and can review all the modifications completed in the past.
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