1 Introduction

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science (SC) Portfolio Analysis and Management System (PAMS) is SC’s web-based system for managing proposals and subsequent financial assistance awards (grant and cooperative agreements). 

Whether you need to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), Proposal, Revised Budget or Review you must first login to your PAMS account.

The purpose of this document is to provide step-by-step instructions for users to follow to log in to their external PAMS account.

2 Prerequisites

Before a user can log in to his or her external PAMS account, the following criterion must be met:

• The user has an existing external PAMS account.

3 Logging In to PAMS

Use the following steps to log in to your external PAMS account.

1. Navigate to the External PAMS login page at: https://pamspublic.science.energy.gov/webpamsepsexternal/login.aspx (Figure 1).

Figure 1. PAMS External Login

2. Click "Existing User Login via OneID".

3. PAMS will navigate to the OneID Login page. Select the appropriate login method to authenticate your login. (Figure 2)

Figure 2. OneID Login

4. Once successfully authenticated, you will be redirected to the PAMS external homepage (Figure 3).

Figure 3. PAMS External Homepage

4 Logging In to PAMS with MFA with an Existing Account for the First Time

Use the following steps to log in to your external PAMS account.

1. Navigate to the external PAMS login page at: https://pamspublic.science.energy.gov/webpamsepsexternal/login.aspx (Figure 1).

2. Click "Existing User Login via OneID".

3. PAMS will navigate to the OneID Login page. Select the appropriate login method to authenticate your login. (Figure 2)

4. Upon successful authentication, PAMS will load the PAMS Account Not Found page, which displays two subsections that provide further guidance for logging into PAMS. Select the "I have a PAMS Account" subsection. (Figure 4)

Figure 4. PAMS Account Not Found, I have a PAMS account

5. The subsection will expand. Enter the First Name, Last Name, and email address associated with your existing PAMS account, and click "Send Verification Code".

6. PAMS will send a verification code to the associated email and reload the page, replacing the "I have a PAMS account" subsection with a new "Verification Code Sent" subsection. (Figure 5)

Figure 5. PAMS Account Not Found, Verification Code Sent

7. Enter the verification code found in the email and click "Submit".

8. PAMS will complete login and navigate the user to the PAMS homepage. (Figure 3)