Description
ASA ALT and USSOCOM have contractor operated warehouse facilities, similar to USMC Consolidated Storage Program.  As such, the contractor is permitted to do many things, but one thing they are not permitted to do is to "obligate the government".  Accepting newly procured government materiel is one of those functions that is inherently a government function, as it could result in the government being obligated to pay the vendor for services rendered.  The "Warehouse" Receipt  Acceptance action may be perceived as a government responsibility.  As such, there should be 'controls' within DPAS that permit the Acceptance action to be separately controlled from the Receipt and Verify actions within Receiving and Quality Control processes. 

Recommended
Establish a new Role or optional two-part step for Material Acceptance for newly acquired government property, since this solution is not required in non-GOCO facilities.  Modify the Receiving and Quality Control processes to establish that newly acquired Government Material  "Acceptance" actions are Role Specific. This would mirror Government Acceptance steps for Government Acceptance of Material found in the DD Form 250 Material Inspection and receiving report. By controlling the Acceptance Step action by role, the organization can ensure that only authorized individuals can perform the acceptance step on behalf of the government.   Objective: Use WAWF acceptance/rejection transactions to inform available action options in DPAS.  For example, grey out the "Acceptance" button in DPAS until the WAWF transaction for acceptance has been completed by the government, thereby ensuring no materiel is "accepted" into the inventory until after government acceptance/vendor payment has occurred.

Mission Critical
Mission critical to the PEO-SOFSA (Lexington) DPAS Warehouse implementation, which will begin in FY19.

Benefits
Enables inherently governmental work to be accomplished by proper government civilians.  Speeds up receipt, QC and acceptance within DPAS so that it will not negatively affect performance of CTRs in GOCO facility. 

Users
All GOCO users.

Completed – Release 2020.1 – 6 March 2020