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…As anyone involved in Non-Temp Storage (NTS) can attest, the current NTS billing process is inefficient at best, and it can be a real nightmare. It is a manual, paper driven process that results in extremely slow payments for NTS providers, and an expensive, cumbersome payment process for the government. Phase 3 of the DP3 program will make many changes to the NTS program, including the move to an electronic billing process utilizing the US Bank payment system. However, since

…Last summer, lots of things went wrong during the peak season of personal property moves. One of the few things that performed better than expected was the reliability of the DPS computer system. While it may not have always been the fastest or easiest to use software in existence, for the most part DPS did not suffer any major technical problems that rendered it unusable for long periods of time.
As we head into the upcoming 2011 peak season, not

We have written previously… about the upcoming implementation of offsets through the USBank Payment System, and the resulting threat to TSPs’ cash flow. Since then, we have had many questions from TSPs asking what they can do to verify they are not facing large offsets. We have also had conversations with government representatives about encouraging TSPs to be proactive in handling their past obligations.
The consensus seems to be that the best course of action for TSPs is to contact

The Daycos March Monthly Newsletter has been sent out, and can be viewed here.  A few of the topics in this month’s newsletter include:

• Transmission Issues Continue to Plague Invoicing Process
• Daycos Celebrates 2 Years of “Being Well”
• Daycos Billing Service Now Integrated with Easy DPS
• SDDC Website Update Underway

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…Recent technical issues with the USBank Payment System and DPS have caused significant payment and processing delays over the past 10 days. Last week,  problems at USBank caused a stoppage of both the payments to TSPs and the submission of invoices to DPS. We were getting calls from TSPs asking why they weren’t getting payments, and emails from PPSOs asking why  we weren’t sending any invoices to approve.
By late last week, USBank had identified and repaired the issues that

Fuel Surcharge for Period 3/15/11 to 4/14/11
The price of fuel was $3.87 per gallon as reported on Monday, March 7, 2011 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 3/15/11 through 4/14/11 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 14%
GSA Domestic HHG – $1.37
GSA International HHG and BAG – $1.37…

We have received a number of questions in the last few days regarding the lack of payments being made by USBank’s Payment System for DPS and CWA invoices. Throughout this week, we have been working on two separate issues that are affecting the processing of a large number of DPS and CWA invoices and payments.
The first issue is resulting from problems with invoices transmitting from the USBank Payment System to DPS and CWA. The second issue is affecting invoices…

During this week’s AMSA Annual Conference’s Military Summit, Lt. Col. Derek Oliver and John Johnson discussed a new SDDC initiative, a “Program Efficiency Review”.  The goal of this process will be to review all aspects of the DP3 business rules and program, and decide whether changes are warranted.
While they did indicate that the review would be comprehensive, and cover all parts of the program, a couple of topics were mentioned specifically:

• Number of TSPs:  SDDC will be asking if

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…Last week a new version of EasyDPS was released that contained integration between that system and the Daycos’ billing system. Using this new functionality in EasyDPS, customers who utilize Daycos for billing can easily send shipment data to Daycos from within EasyDPS. Additionally, you can attach scanned billing documentation directly from the EasyDPS system, and it will be transmitted to Daycos.  The screen shot below shows the process in EasyDPS:
We hope that our customers who use EasyDPS will try

As we mentioned in a previous post, SDDC had announced upcoming plans to update its website. It appears that the update is currently underway. The home page, located at http://www.sddc.army.mil/…, now sports a new color scheme and layout:
Currently, the personal property section of the website only contains the section home page and a few external links. All of the information stored in other parts of the personal property section is currently inaccessible. This includes all copies of