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It is that time of year again, as Mid-south has started their first run of audit requests for this fall. As part of our billing service, we will fulfill your Midsouth requests on your behalf if you provide the requests to our office. We recommend that the requests be emailed to support@daycos.com or sent to us via courier or U.S. mail.…

Earlier this year, SDDC released an updated billing clarification …for item codes 520A and 520B for long deliveries from SIT. The new billing procedures were implemented in CWA during version 3.7.3. During that time, CWA was programmed to accept only one item code 520A or 520B per shipment. As a result, when billing shipments with mulitple deliveries from SIT, you cannot bill both deliveries on the same invoice using item code 520A or 520B more than one time without the

I recently had the opportunity to attend a day-long demonstration of the new DPS (Defense Personal Property System) system, which is a key component of the move to Phase II of Families First. DPS is a web application that will be used by service members, PPSO’s, and TSP’s for many functions such as pre-move counseling, shipment awards, rate filing, shipment tracking, invoice rating and approval, claims, and customer surveys. The system is being built by SRA, and they hosted the…

We have just been forwarded this message, which was sent by Cullen Hutchinson at SDDC to the trade associations:

As I promised, as soon as I got an official release I would advise you all. SDDC has received authorization from the Commander, United States Transportation Command to move the implementation timeline for Families First and the Defense Personal Property System (DPS) from 1 Oct 05 to 1 Feb 06. This decision was made due to complications associated with the availability …

In May, I had the opportunity to attend the demonstration of Increment 1 of the new DPS system, which will be implemented in Phase II of Families First. I wrote a lengthy review of the system, which can be read in this PDF file…, in which I summarized that unless some changes were made, DPS would add a significant workload to the TSP’s process in Phase II.
Recently, we received a summary of the comments and suggestions we made

Also mentioned at the TSP workshop was the news that IV&V testing on the new DPS system is continuing, despite having been slated to be completed last week. SDDC stated that it is “not going as smoothly as we hoped.”
There was no mention on whether or not these problems will be cause SDDC to postpone the February 1, 2006 implementation date for Phase II.…

During the HHGFAA convention, SDDC stated that Gen. Fletcher would soon be making a decision about “timeline for Phase II of Families First.” Basically, he will be deciding in the next week whether or not to postpone the current start date of February 1, 2006.
The general consensus among those at the convention was that the date will be pushed back, most likely until October 1st, 2006. Of course until it is official, no one knows for sure. However, it…

Recently SDDC published a proposed change to the fuel surcharge baseline rate. The change, which was proposed in a Federal Register Notice you can view here…, raises the fuel surcharge from the current baseline of $1.30 per gallon to a baseline of $2.50 per gallon. The proposed change would be effective for the IS-07 and DS-07 rate cycles, for which the rate filing deadline are approaching rapidly.
The proposed change, or at least the amount of the proposed change,

In preparation for the DPS Demonstration being held by SDDC this week, I was attempting to do a little research to refresh my knowledge of the DPS system. I was trying to locate the informational website put together by SRA, the contractor that is building the DPS system. I knew the URL contained DPSInfo, so I just took a shot and typed in www.DPSinfo.com…. I was surprised to learn that on this website, DPS stands for Dead People Server,

SDDC released a list of proper billing procedures in their August/September 2006 Newsletter…. Since that time, we have noticed an increasing amount of single line invoices that have been denied by the PPSO’s because of fragmented billing. We understand that from time to time you may only have the documentation to support billing the linehaul charges when sending in for billing. Please note, that if your single line invoice is denied in CWA, we may email your office asking