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Business and Requirements Overview

Background

Household Goods (HHG) and Freight Management are programs within GSA's Transportation and Logistics services. HHG is a worldwide employee relocation program that offers a consistent pricing structure, highly competitive rates, a comprehensive tender of service, and vetted suppliers. The Freight Management Branch provides a framework for fulfilling the worldwide freight shipping requirements of federal agencies. The program offers rate management services and worldwide shipment for general commodity freight transportation.

Before this project, HHG used a COBOL-based rate procurement and execution system called Transportation Management Service Solution (TMSS) that ran on the mainframe. Freight Management used an IBM TransPort Integrator (TPI) JDA COTS system to manage service lifecycles.

In 2021, the IT contract for the Unisys mainframe which supports the TMSS expired, whereas the IBM TPI contract expired on September 30th, 2020. If the contracts were extended, TPI would require costly security improvements in order to close vulnerabilities.

Solution

TMSS 1.0 and TPI were integrated into a new system called Transportation Management Services Solutions (TMSS) 2.0. TMSS 2.0 is a GSA cloud-based, agile rate procurement solution that supports federal agency transportation requirements for the worldwide shipment of household goods and freight. TMSS 2.0 offers federal agency customers access to the Centralized Household Goods Traffic Management Program (CHAMP) and the Freight Management Program (FMP) which both provide comprehensive tenders of service, vetted suppliers, highly competitive rates, consistent pricing structure, and a customer satisfaction index built into the program.