Defense Transportation: Final Evaluation Plan Is Needed to Assess Alternatives to the Current Personal Property Program

In December 2001, the U.S. Transportation Command issued the final/revised version of it's Personal Property Pilot Programs Evaluation Plan which addressed the previously unresolved direct and indirect cost issues. DOD developed a fully automated, constructed cost database using business rules for managing and costing-out household goods shipments that were developed and approved by the pilot program officials and military service representatives. This constructed cost database combined attributes of the two approaches-- an automated, constructed cost methodology using historical data, and a manual constructed cost approach using the business rules used in the current program-- that were being considered in calculating baseline direct costs. The U.S. Transportation Command used the results of a recently issued DOD Offset Cost Report for determining baseline and pilot indirect cost data.