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Alerts

PURCHASE CARD ALERTS IN EFFECT AT THIS TIME:

ALERT Number 57

Issued January 2, 2009

Subject:  New Guidance for the Government Purchase Card (GPC)

ALERT Number 56

Issued December 15, 2008

Subject:  Final Implementation Phase from SmartPay (SP1) to SmartPay (SP2)

ALERT Number 55

Issued December 10, 2008

Subject: New Provedures for Official Government Mailing Address Changes

ALERT Number 54

Issued: November 12, 2008

Subject:  Purchase Card On-line System (PCOLS) Data Call

ALERT Number 53

Issued November 7, 2008

Subject Arrival of "SmartPay 2" (SP2) Purchase Card

ALERT Number 52

Issued October 6, 2008

Subject: 2008 Purchase Card Ethics Training

ALERT Number 51

Issued September 8, 2008

Subject: FY2007 Electronic Review of the OSD/WHS Purchase Card Program

ALERT Number 50

Issued August 28, 2008

Subject: U.S. Bank Access Online Functionality Update August 2008

ALERT Number 49

Issued August 26, 2008

Subject:  Updated Email Address for SmartPay 2 Transition

ALERT Number 48

Issued June 17, 2008

Subject:  SmartPay 2 (SP2) Contract

ALERT Number 47

Issued April 4, 2008

Subject:  Suspension of IBM Corporation

ALERT Number 46

Issued November 1, 2007   Subject:  Revised Third Party Payment Policy

ALERT Number 45

Issued October 23, 2007 Subject:Credit Orders in the US Bank Access Online System

ALERT Number 44 Issued September 20, 2007

Subject: OSD/WHS Purchase Card Program Annual Review  

ALERT Number 43

Issued August 30, 2007

Subject:  Government Purchase Card File Documentation Requirements

ALERT Number 41

Issued May 25, 2007

Subject:  Annual Review, Fiscal Year 2006 Purchase Card Program Accounts

ALERT Number 40 Issued April 23, 2007
Subject: 2007 Purchase Card Ethics Training
ALERT Number 39 Issued February 2, 2007,
Subject: OSD/WHS Purchase Card Program Annual Review
ALERT Number 38

Issued October 26, 2006
Subject: Administrative Instruction (AI) 105, OSD/WHS Purchase Card Program

ALERT Number 33 Issued February 1, 2006,
Subject: Transfer of Purchase Card Program Function
ALERT Number 31

Issued December 8, 2005
Subject: Express Shipment of Small Packages for Official US Government Business

ALERT Number 28

Issued August 24, 2005
Subject: Commercial Subscriptions, Newspapers, and Subscriptions for Publication

ALERT Number 1

Issued November 12, 2002

Subject: Explanation of Purchase Card alerts.

CANCELLED PURCHASE CARD ALERTS:

(Note, the Alerts are in this "Cancelled" category because their content has either been incorporated in the current version of AI 105 or the information contained in them is no longer applicable).

ALERT Number 42

Issued July 10, 2007 Subject:  Update to WHS Administrative Instruction (AI) 105, OSD/WHS Purchase Card Program, re Purchase of Senior Executive Service (SES) Flags

Issued October 10, 2006

Subject: Micro-Purchase Threshold Increase

ALERT Number 36

Issued August 30, 2006

Subject:  Elimination of Monthly Cardholder Paper Statement

ALERT Number 35

Issued March 2, 2006

Subject: Access Online Question and Answer (Q&A) Sessions

ALERT Number 34

Issued February 10, 2006

Subject: Access Online Critical Milestones

ALERT Number 32

Issued January 12, 2006

Subject: Access Online Is Here!!

ALERT Number 30

Issued November 24, 2005

Subject: Elimination of Paper Invoice/Statement

ALERT Number 29

Issued October 3, 2005

Subject: Upcoming Change to Purchase Card Statement Cycle Date

ALERT Number 27

Issued August 15, 2005

Subject: Customer Automation & Reporting Environment (C.A.R.E.) Training Manual Update (15 August 2005) and Frequently Asked Questions on the Web Page

ALERT Number 26

Issued June 29, 2005

Subject:: FY05 Purchase Card Ethics Training

ALERT Number 25

Issued May 11, 2005

Subject: Customer Automation & Reporting Environment (C.A.R.E) Questions

ALERT Number 24

Issued December 2, 2004

Subject: On-line Annual Refresher Training for FY-2004 Now Available

ALERT Number 23

Issued September 3, 2004

Subject: Notice of Change of Classroom Location - Annual Refresher Training

ALERT Number 22

Issued August 16, 2004

Subject: Annual Refresher Training for FY-2004

ALERT Number 21

Issued August 9, 2004

Subject: Office of the Secretary of Defense/Washington Headquarters Services (OSD/WHS) Purchase Card Program Standing Operating Procedures (SOP) dated 17 June 2004

ALERT Number 20

Issued June 17, 2004

Subject: New Purchase Card Program Team Member to manage US Bank Customer Automation and Reporting Environment (CARE) Roll Out

ALERT Number 19

Issued March 1, 2004

Subject: Survey of Annual Refresher Training Format

ALERT Number 18

Issued January 30, 2004

Subject: Security Alert - Fraudulent E-mails and Telephone Scams

ALERT Number 17

Issued January 8, 2004

Subject: Purchase Card Account Security and Government Contractor Employees

ALERT Number 16

Issued November 19, 2003

Subject: Purchasing Emergency Provisions with the Purchase Card

ALERT Number 15

Issued November 4, 2003

Subject: Notice of Probable Attempt to Compromise DoD Purchase Card Accounts

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ALERT Number 14

Issued October 10, 2003

Subject: Management Controls

ALERT Number 13

Issued September 11, 2003

Subject: Updated Delegation of Authority (DOA) memos issued to all Approving Officials and Cardholders

ALERT Number 12

Issued August 6, 2003

Subject: OSD/WHS Purchase Card Program Annual Review

ALERT Number 11

Issued July 29, 2003

Subject: OSD/WHS Purchase Card Program Web Page

ALERT Number 10

Issued July 22, 2003

Subject: Approving Official/Cardholder Supervisory Relationship

ALERT Number 9

Issued July 18, 2003

Subject: MANDATORY TRAINING (for Approving Officials ONLY), Management Controls Training in August-September 2003

ALERT Number 8

Issued May 12, 2003

Subject: Rotating Vendors/Obtaining Competition.

ALERT Number 7

Issued May 5, 2003

Subject: Transfer of Purchase Program.

ALERT Number 6

Issued April 16, 2003

Subject: Blocking of Merchant Category Codes.

ALERT Number 5

Issued March 20, 2003

Subject: Purchase Card Accounts that are Deployed and in Direct Support of a Contingency Operation.

ALERT Number 4

Issued December 6, 2002

Subject: Mandatory online Purchase Card Tutorial.

ALERT Number 3

Issued November 26, 2002

Subject: Inspections Through US Bank Generated Reports.

ALERT Number 2

Issued November 22, 2002

Subject: Distribution of Approving Official Statements.

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