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Travel arrangement "systems"

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The use of travel arrangement systems in the government is absolutely ridiculous! DTS in DOD, FedTraveler in Homeland Security- even if you can't book your travel through them (Fedtraveler doesn't even include all hotels under contract with the govt) the govt is charged for FedTraveler to "prepare" a travel authorization- which is actually prepared by the employee, and approved by his/her supervisor!! WASTE!!!

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Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  1. Community Member

    Totally concur! It was more efficient when we had a single "secretary" doing all the orders, travel arrangements, reservations, etc. Now EVERYONE is REQUIRED to get a travel card, learn DTS, file everything electronically (which is no easy task), etc., etc., etc. I know one USAF PROGRAM office who has ILLEGALLY hired a private contractor to do EXACTLY THAT for its military and civil service travelers. Yeh, that saves a lot of "money"...

    2 years ago
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  2. Community Member

    More opportunity of standardization into one Federal Government Travel system. Consolidate the systems into one system that can work for all. another example of redundant and wasteful systems.

    2 years ago
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  3. Community Member

    One big advantage to DTS is the electronic archival of the documents. That in and of itself is saving time and money. Before we had to keep the origianial vouchers and reciepts for 7 years after the travel was completed. That required room to store the papers and all that goes with that.

    2 years ago
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  4. Community Member Idea Submitter

    Scan them and save them in a folder- the world is going paperless anyway. Paying DTS's "per travel" fee is not nearly worth the "archive" benefits.

    2 years ago
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