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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF MARCH 9,1995 PSA#1299Headquarters, Military Traffic Management Command, MTOP-T-N, Room 621,
511 Columbia Pike, Falls Church, Virginia 22041-5050 V -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE REENGINEER TRAVEL POC MRS. KAY
ANDERSON-HAGER (703) 693-2424 Comptroller of the Department of Defense,
Directorate for Performance Measures and Results, Attn: Travel
Reengineering Transition Team, Room 1C665, The Pentagon, Washington, DC
20301-1100. NOTE THIS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION. The Deputy
Secretary of Defense has directed rapid implementation contained within
the January 1995 Report of the Department of Defense Task Force to
Reengineer Travel, to include streamlining the DoD infrastructure and
exploiting the private sector capabilities. The concept includes
maintenance and operation of a full-service travel entity capable of
providing reservations and ticketing for transportation, travel
services,rental vehicles, hotel, motel, and passport services, and for
availability notices and reservations for government quarters and
feeding facilities, and for a should cost estimate for each proposed
government travel requirement. The information is to be provided
through integration of DoD travel and transportation entitlements and
locality per diem rates into a single continuous automated data flow.
Any software must include interfaces with commercial travel office
reservation systems and must have capabilities to store and access DoD
transportation, lodging, and feeding policies. It must provide a
variety of management information reports as decision tools, including
information for local management oftravel budgets. The system must be
capable of interfacing with government transportation and billeting
reservation systems. It must contain logic to allow computation of
travel entitlements for privately owned vehicle travel and identify the
numbers travel days authorized, based on distance traveled, and compare
costsmode-to-mode. Payment for travel services will be through use of
a government travel card and/or electronic funds transfers (EFT) or
centrally billed accounting practices. Target system is single source
data entry with a totally paperless processes containing embedded
policy compliance checks and internal controls. The government will
accept demonstration models. The following will remain a government
function: authorizing expenses, approving expenses, accounting,
disbursing, and auditing. To obtain a copy of the Travel Reengineering
Task Force Report, submit address to Fax 703-693-2432 . Written
comments should be forwarded within 30 days of the date of this notice
to same fax number and should reference this notice. Notelephone
comments will be accepted. The DOD Travel Reengineer Transition Team
will host an Industry Forum on April 26, 1995, 9:00 AM - 5: 00 PM at
the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel, 1999 Jefferson Davis Highway,
Arlington, VA 22202, 703-473-5500, to provide briefings on the
recommended changes, to respond to questions received from industry in
response to this Sources Sought, and to provide industry an
opportunity to express comments. Please note this does not constitute
a solicitation. (0066) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0164 19950308\V-0009.SOL)
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