Commercial and Government Entity Code
A 5-character ID that identifies companies doing business with the federal government. Assigned automatically when you register in SAM.gov.
(Commercial and Government Entity Code) is a acronym concept federal contractors and grant writers run into across solicitations, regulations, and award filings
CAGE is one of the federal-contracting acronyms that turn up in RFPs, contracting-officer correspondence, modifications, and compliance documents. It stands for Commercial and Government Entity Code. Understanding what CAGE means in context is not optional for serious contractors — federal documents accumulate acronyms quickly, and misreading one early in an RFP can ripple through the technical volume, the cost narrative, and the management approach. The fastest way to internalize CAGE is to read it in the context of an actual contract or solicitation rather than in a vacuum — pattern-recognition across multiple uses beats memorizing the definition once. Bureauify's glossary collects CAGE alongside the related terms above so the network of meanings is browsable rather than scattered. For example: 1ABC2
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