MTMC changes its domestic freight contracting process.The Military Traffic Management Command A major command of the US Army, and the US Transportation Command's component command responsible for designated continental United States land transportation as well as common-user water terminal and traffic management service to deploy, employ, sustain, and redeploy US forces on a has begun changing the way it contracts for moving most domestic freight and fuels. MTMC MTMC Military Traffic Management Command (US DoD) MTMC Mount Marty College MTMC Micros-to-Mainframes, Inc. (stock symbol) MTMC Middle Tennessee Medical Center (Murfreesboro, TN) has moved to the use of tailored transportation contracts for its domestic freight and fuels, said Col. Jan Frye, the Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting. The command's first contracting action under the Federal Acquisition Regulation took place June 21 with a MTMC solicitation solicitation In criminal law, the act of asking, inducing, or directing someone to commit a crime. The person soliciting another becomes an accomplice to the crime. The term also refers to the act of obtaining bribes, as well as to the crime of a prostitute who offers sexual that went to transportation providers. Full implementation of Federal Acquisition Regulation contracting will take place by Sept. 30. "This is our first step in compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation" said Frye. "In the past, we have complied with the legal definition but not the standards." In the past, MTMC contracted for domestic freight via the Guaranteed Traffic Program. The program solicited transportation providers via tenders to submit rates for heavy freight traffic lanes for a short period of time--typically six months. However, transportation providers could leave the contract without penalty. The changes to the MTMC contracting for domestic freight were promised in March by Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Privratsky, Commander, at the 2002 MTMC Training Symposium symposium In ancient Greece, an aristocratic banquet at which men met to discuss philosophical and political issues and recite poetry. It began as a warrior feast. Rooms were designed specifically for the proceedings. , in Dallas. When a proposed pilot program threatened to delay implementation of the program, Privratsky ordered the program's full implementation. To meet the accelerated goal, a MTMC Integrated Process Team was organized to streamline the contracting process transition. To assist interested freight transportation providers, the team held preproposal conferences in Houston and Atlanta. Preproposal conferences for fuel transportation providers were held in Washington, D.C., St. Louis and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . The Federal Acquisition Regulation was a change in domestic freight transportation regulations that followed the demise Death. A conveyance of property, usually of an interest in land. Originally meant a posthumous grant but has come to be applied commonly to a conveyance that is made for a definitive term, such as an estate for a term of years. of the Interstate Commerce Commission Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), former independent agency of the U.S. government, established in 1887; it was charged with regulating the economics and services of specified carriers engaged in transportation between states. . There are several exceptions to the proposal: * MTMC will continue to use a voluntary tender procedure for shipments not covered not covered Health care adjective Referring to a procedure, test or other health service to which a policy holder or insurance beneficiary is not entitled under the terms of the policy or payment system–eg, Medicare. Cf Covered. under a long-term contract. Those government bills of lading-based movements continue to be recognized as exceptions under the Federal Acquisition Regulation. * Not affected by the proposal are military household goods shipments, which fall under a different law. However, some household goods contracts are covered by the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Official notification of the proposed change was published in the July 21, 2000, issue of the Federal Register. For additional information on the contract changes, contact at (703) 428-2052. |
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