PART 301-73—TRAVEL PROGRAMS

Subtitle F—Federal Travel Regulation System › Chapter 301—Temporary Duty (TDY) Travel Allowances › Subchapter D—Agency Responsibilities

Subpart A—General Rules

§ 301-73.1 Components of the Federal travel management program.

The Federal travel management program includes an ETS, a TMC that provides reservation and ticketing support, and management reports on reservation and ticketing activities, a travel payment system for paying travel service providers, contracts, and similar arrangements with transportation and lodging providers, and a travel management reporting system that covers financial and other travel characteristics required by the Travel Reporting Information Profile (TRIP) report (see § 301-80.1 of this subchapter).

§ 301-73.2 Agency responsibilities for Federal travel management program.

Agencies must—

(a) Designate an authorized representative to administer the program, establish internal policies and procedures to govern use of the program, and require employees to use ETS instead of another Travel Management Service (TMS) or TMC, except when an exception has been granted under § 301-50.2 of this chapter; and

(b) Ensure agency-contracted TMC complements ETS and supports data exchange in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

Note 1 to § 301-73.2: Agencies are responsible for providing funds and personnel resources for ETS transition, and establishing interfaces between ETS standard data output and business systems (e.g., financial, human resources).

Subpart B—Travel Payment System

§ 301-73.100 Travel payment system and obtaining services.

A travel payment system facilitates the payment of official travel and transportation expenses. Agencies must participate in GSA's travel payment system services program unless the agency is not a mandatory user of GSA's charge card program.