Daycos News

The price of fuel was $3.78 per gallon as reported on Monday, January 2, 2012 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 1/15/12 through 2/14/12 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 13%
GSA Domestic HHG – $1.28
GSA International HHG and BAG – $1.28…

Many times when we have disagreements with SDDC about the interpretation of certain issues in the tariff, we remind them that it is not what they “think” about an issue that is important, it is what is “written” in the solicitation that should be the guide. After we posted our last blog article… about the delay in posting the solicitations, I had a call from SDDC that reminded me of this lesson. This representative from SDDC called to tell me

Update (1/2/12) SDDC has contacted us to state the the 45 day requirement only applies to publishing the rate filing schedule, not the publication of the solicitation. We are doing some further research on the topic, and we wil have a full blog post on the topic later this week, but we wanted to post this update from SDDC.
Update (12/29/11) The 2012 400NG and International tender have finally been posted on the SDDC website. They are the second …

Update (1/2/12) SDDC has contacted us to state the the 45 day requirement only applies to publishing the rate filing schedule, not the publication of the solicitation. We are doing some further research on the topic, and we wil have a full blog post on the topic later this week, but we wanted to post this update from SDDC. …
The picture for the 2012 rate season is coming into focus, with 2 of the 3 necessary pieces of information now

Daycos will be closed on Monday, December 26th and Monday, January 2nd in order to allow our employees time to celebrate the holidays with their families.
We hope all of you have a safe, joyous, and blessed holiday season.
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SDDC has posted the 2012 400NG baseline rates, which will be used on all domestic DPS shipments scheduled for pickup after May 15, 2012. The rates, in a downloadable Excel spreadsheet…, are currently available on the Personal Property section of the SDDC website.
The rates contain a 2.5% increase over the previous 400NG baseline rates. This general price adjustment is based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the CEU Index, which according to the 400NG tariff is based

The last DPS update was installed with very few problems…. So when the next major upgrade, version 1.4.08, was installed over the weekend, lots of people were wondering if it would be another “quiet” installation. Unfortunately, it appears that the recent update has caused some significant problems related to the SIT process in the DPS computer system.
The biggest problem caused by the update is that DPS is no longer automatically issuing SIT control numbers for shipments without a

The price of fuel was $3.93 per gallon as reported on Monday, December 5, 2011 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 12/15/11 through 1/14/12 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 15%
GSA Domestic HHG – $1.43
GSA International HHG and BAG – $1.43…

JPMO-HHGs has released Version 26 of the DPS Smart Book, which details the upcoming changes in the next release of DPS. Although the effective date of the Smart Book is listed as December 9th, the same day as the 1.4.08 DPS release, it is available for download now at Move.mil….
Once again, JPMO-HHGs has gone to great lengths to detail the changes in the upcoming DPS release. The Smart Book highlights the upcoming DPS release by Software Change Requests