Daycos News

As we posted yesterday…, our first DPS invoice had been approved by the PPSO, but was delayed in moving to PowerTrack. SRA did determine that they had some further technical issues which was preventing this invoice from being sent to PowerTrack. The fix for these problems involved work by DISA, which manages the physical server upon which DPS is loaded. Yesterday afternoon, DISA completed the work-order, and the invoice did move to PowerTrack.
However, DPS mistakenly sent the invoice

The first live DPS invoice continues to work its way through the process, although there have been some problems which has slowed its progress. As we noted in our last update…, it made it into DPS and was ready for approval by the PPSO. We were able to work with the PPSO to do a little testing of the Dispute and Note functionality in DPS, and those seemed to work well.
Friday morning, the PPSO approved the last line

Earlier this morning, the first DPS invoice… showed up in the DPS system, and it is now awaiting approval from the PPSO. As you might imagine, normally it should not take two days from the time of submission for an invoice to show up in DPS. The invoice was “lost” for a little while, and it took some work to track down the problem.
When it didn’t show up in DPS, we started tracing the invoice. We eventually confirmed that

Earlier today, we submitted our first live DPS invoice. This was for the shipment that was booked in the production version of DPS… as a method of judging the system’s readiness for a September 10th launch.
Of course, the implementation delay of DPS has created some complications in getting this invoice submitted. PowerTrack had to make some updates to their production system to allow all the DPS line items to be submitted. Additionally, this invoice will have to be manually

Late last week SDDC released Change 4 to DS08 to increase the rate of the recently added Plasma TV Cartons… from $65 to $105 per carton.
We have heard nothing further in regards to the progress of adding the new items for the Plasma cartons to the item codes spreadsheet for electronic billing and are currently billing for these cartons using the interim billing solution released earlier. We will keep you posted as details are released.

We received confirmation from a representative of SDDC that the CWA Help Desk email contact is not working at this time. We are not sure how long it has been down, but assume that it is related to the recent transition of the Help Desk to the SDDC Systems Response Center… earlier this month.
We have been advised that they hope to have the email back up and working next week. In the meantime, it is recommended that you contact

Recently, new TSPs have been added to the DPS invoicing test team. While it took a considerable amount of work to add the new TSPs (rates had to be filed, shipments booked and awarded, etc), we applaud the move by JPMO-HHGS to add additional industry representatives to the testing process. It will assist those TSPs with preparing for DPS, and it will give us some fresh sets of eyes to our invoicing challenges.
It will also allow at least some…

When logging into CWA, users receive the following message regarding this week’s scheduled downtime:

ATTENTION CWA USERS:
CWA will be unavailable from 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM CDT, on Tuesday, 16 September 2008 due to scheduled ASI. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. …

The price of fuel was $4.12 per gallon as reported on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 9/15/08 through 10/14/08 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 17%
GSA Domestic HHG – $2.17
GSA International HHG and BAG – $2.17…

We have received questions from many of you this week regarding the rash of CWA invoice rejections that some TSP’s are experiencing on current invoices. We have been told by representatives of PowerTrack (PT) that the recent rejections are due to new validation checks that CWA implemented in the last few weeks.
This may seem like deja vu for many TSPs, looking back to the similar validation checks… that CWA implemented earlier this spring. We have been told that, unlike