Daycos News

Last week, during the  NDTA Annual Forum in Washington, DC, there were a few sessions related to household goods. Col. Mike Miller from JPMO-HHGS and Lt. Col. Derek Oliver from SDDC each gave an update during one session, and here are some notes from those presentations:

• As expected, there was lots of discussion around the peak season issues:
  • SDDC reported that during July and August, roughly 7% of shipments delivered past the RDD.
  • Lt. Col. Oliver stated that many of

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We haven’t heard any official word yet, but it appears that the invoicing payment problem… caused by the last week’s DPS patch may be resolved. We had heard that Syncada was receiving invoices from DPS for the first time since last week, so we ran a query on our invoices. Sure enough, we can confirm that some DPS rated invoices have been transmitted to Syncada today to be matched for payment. It appears they are resending the invoices that have

We have a quick update to our earlier post on the problem in DPS that has halted all payments. Today we have been forwarded the following message, apparently sent to PPSOs from JPMO-HHGs:

BLUF: Please have your clerks stop processing invoices for 13-15 Sep 2010
With the 1.4.03 release has caused an invoice transmission problem with DPS to US Bank.
DPS has stopped sending (processed invoices 858′s) back to us bank for payment until a patch is deployed.
We will …

Update (9/16/10): DPS Invoicing Problem May Be Resolved
Update (9/15/10): PPSOs Asked to Stop Processing Invoices…
Last Wednesday evening, DPS loaded a patch containing a number of fixes for the DPS system. Unfortunately, it appears that the patch caused a significant error in the DPS rating and payment process.  The net effect of this error is that any invoices approved after last Wednesday have not been paid.
When a PPSO approves or denies all line items in an

One consistent request from  industry to the government has been for more information to be shared, so that TSPs can better plan and allocate resources. Recently,  a new section labeled DPS Monthly Metrics has been added to the TSP Resources page of the Move.mil website. This section appears to be a step in the right direction of sharing info with TSPs, as it contains a series of informational charts and data sets including:

• Shipment Numbers
• DPS vs TOPS HHG Volume

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The price of fuel was $2.93 per gallon as reported on Monday, September 6, 2010 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 9/15/10 through 10/14/10 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 5%
GSA Domestic HHG – $0.43
GSA International HHG and BAG – $0.43…