Daycos News

After 35 years, James Fitzgerald, Director, Audit Division, General Services Administration, has chosen today as his last day. His recent decision to retire and his final date was kept quiet per his request until yesterday afternoon, when he advised his staff and demanded “no fan-fare!”
We have had the privilege of working with Jim on many issues over the years, and we have always found him to be fair and honest. Quite often we had to agree to disagree, however…

Over the course of the last week, there has been a growing number of I-22 International invoices that have gone into Audit Exception in PowerTrack (PT) due to CE07 rating errors in CWA. CE07 rating errors mean that the CWA rating engine was unable to identify the rate area to correctly rate the invoice. This is not a new error, but is appearing on a much larger scale that usual.
We have opened a help ticket with the CWA Help…

Our billing program and AccuBill have recently been updated with the DS09 changes found in the D-16 Solicitation that went into effect for Domestic shipments with pickup dates of 05/01/09 and after.
The changes are as follows:

DOM – new tariff updates (D-16)
A. The listed ‘Summary of Changes’ for the new tariff contain verbiage changes, no programming required.
B. Although not listed on the ‘Summary of Changes’ page for the new tariff, these next items were coded in red …

It has been over a month since our last update… on Alaska Invoicing in DPS, but unfortunately there is not a whole lot of news to report. The DPS rating engine is still unable to properly rate an Alaska linehaul invoice.
We have had customers deliver some Alaska shipments, and we have attempted to invoice a couple of shipments. The good news is that the DPS Production environment did not reject our invoice, but the bad news is that the

The price of fuel was $2.19 per gallon as reported on Monday, May 4, 2009 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 5/15/09 through 6/14/09 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 0%
GSA Domestic HHG – $0.00
GSA International HHG and BAG – $0.00

NOTE – You are reading correct above, there is NO fuel surcharge applicable for the specified period…. The baseline rate that is used to calculate the fuel surcharge adjustment

Back in December 2008, we wrote about a conversation… we had with DFAS-Indy concerning their plans to shut down their EDI computer system once SDDC shut down the TOPS system. At that time the scheduled date for the sunset of TOPS was April 30, 2009. DFAS was planning on shutting down their system shortly after that, in the early summer 2009 timeframe.
Obviously the TOPS shutdown has been delayed, and that has affected DFAS’ plans. They have declined to provide