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    USS Mustin demonstrates new payment process for husbanding services

    USS MUSTIN, SINGAPORE

    05.24.2015

    Courtesy Story

    Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka

    By Mass Communication Specialist Seaman David Flewellyn, USS Mustin Public Affairs

    SINGAPORE – Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) successfully demonstrated the Secretary of the Navy’s new initiative to pay husbanding service providers (HSP) using a new process, called procure-to-pay (P2P), in a proof-of-principle (PoP) test during a port visit in Singapore, May 17-21.

    The P2P process was developed to address mandated changes to the Navy’s HSP procurement and bill payment by implementing Fleet Contracting Officer’s Representatives (COR) into the oversight of the HSP bill payment process for Navy afloat units. The process emphasizes financial management and ties back to funding and requirement identification activities integrated with associated contracting support processes.

    “P2P will help ensure fiscal accountability and streamline the port visit bill payment process,” said Cmdr. Joseph Torres, Mustin’s commanding officer. “This initiative will not only support better auditing and accountability, it will also reduce our shipboard financial management workload. It’s a win-win for the Navy, and Mustin is proud to play a role in the testing process”

    The HSP P2P PoP procedures were the second of a series of tests to be conducted across fleets, and will ensure controls and oversights are in place for units to receive required services while deployed away from homeport, and maintain audit standards in compliance with the Financial Improvement Audit Readiness (FIAR) Program.

    The new process provides a mechanism to remove HSP bill payment from ships in a manner that is flexible and scalable to fit all ship classes, and conducive to both efficient and effective delivery of port services.

    “The P2P program is not just about combating procurement fraud, but also about improving our internal controls for the delivery of goods and services by effectively monitoring our contractor’s daily performance during port visits,” said Lt. Edwin Jimenez, Mustin’s supply officer. “There are a lot of moving parts for testing a process that is largely electronic, but will pay off in better services and better accountability.”

    U.S. Navy ships use husbanding services during port visits to provide necessities needed such as water, food, electricity, phone lines and transportation. Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen also completed a successful test of the HSP P2P PoP during a port visit to Busan, Republic of Korea, March 12-13.

    Mustin is currently on patrol in the 7th Fleet area of operations promoting maritime security in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Mustin is one of seven Arleigh-burke class guided-missile destroyers assigned to Destroyer Squadron 15 and is permanently forward-deployed to Yokosuka, Japan.

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    Date Taken: 05.24.2015
    Date Posted: 05.24.2015 01:27
    Story ID: 164396
    Location: USS MUSTIN, SG

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