Attachment 1C - Definitions.pdf

Defense Transportation Regulation - Part IV Personal Property

ATTACHMENT 1C

DEFINITIONS

This part defines words and terms commonly used in this performance work statement.

25 October 2021

BLUEBARK. United States military personnel, United States citizen civilian employees of the Department of Defense, and the dependents of both categories who travel in connection with the death of an immediate family member. It also applies to designated escorts for dependents of deceased military members. Furthermore, the term is used to designate the personal property shipment of a deceased member.

Call Number or Lot Number. A locally assigned control number provided by the ordering activity when a requirement for services is placed with the contractor. For inbound shipments, the number is normally assigned when the Personal Property Shipping Officer receives the freight bill or written receiving notice from the contractor. For outbound or local drayage shipments, the number is normally assigned at the time the order is placed with the contractor.

Complete Service. The rate bid per each item includes all related services, such as long carry, stairs, elevators, excessive distances, necessary to perform the complete pickup and delivery of the personal property shipment.

Containerization. The use of containers to unitize cargo for transportation, supply, and storage.

Containerization incorporates supply, transportation, packaging, storage, and security together with visibility of container and its contents into a distribution system from source to user.

Contracting Officer. The Service member or Department of Defense civilian with the legal authority to enter into, administer, modify, and/or terminate contracts.

Direct Procurement Method. A method of shipment in which the Government manages the shipment throughout. Packing, containerization, local drayage, delivery, unpacking, storage, and related services are obtained from commercial firms under a contractual arrangement or by the use of Government facilities and employees.

Drayage.

a. Schedule I - Drayage included applies in those instances when a shipment requires drayage to an air, water, or other terminal for onward movement after completion of the shipment preparation by the contractor. If it is being moved from a residence or other pickup point to the contractor's warehouse for onward movement by another freight company, carrier, drayage not included applies.

b. Schedule II- Drayage included means delivery of the shipment from destination contractor's facility or other destination point to the final delivery point as ordered. When shipment or partial removal of items from shipment is performed and prepared for customer's pickup at destination delivery point, drayage not included applies.

Employee. A civilian individual:

a. Employed by an Agency (See Agency), regardless of status or grade.

b. Employed intermittently as an expert or consultant and paid on a daily, while actually employed, basis.

c. Serving without pay or at $1 a year (5 U.S.C. § 5701(2), Definitions) (also referred to as "invitational traveler" for temporary duty travel purposes only).

GCWT. Code to designate gross hundredweight.

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