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Treat DD Form 1654 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1654, Evaluation of Transportation Cost Factors, April 1999. Function: Evaluation of Transportation Cost Factors. Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 191 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
Xfdl needs IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible client — a pdf reader will not open it. The format was the Defense standard for electronic forms across the Department for years, which is why it persists in DD distribution long after most users moved to pdf.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
What the form asks for
- 1. PR, PD, or MIPR Number.
- 2. Solicitation Number.
- 3. Bid Opening or Proposal Closing Date.
- 4. Date Required.
- 5. FMS. Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 6. Uniform Freight Class.
- 7. National Motor Freight Class.
- Rate per (if other than CWT.).
- Transportation Data. a. Name of Competitor, line 1.
- b. Item number.
- c. X if FMS increment.
- d. Origin (city, state and zip code).
- e. Destination (Installation or city, state and zip code).
- g. Quantity to be shipped in each shipment.
- h. Number of units per container.
- i. Weight of each container (pounds).
- j. Size of container in inches (length-width-height).
- k. Gross shipping weight.
- l. Mode of shipment (code).
- m. Rate (per measure used).
- n. Total cost of transportation (to be provided by Transportation Officer).
- f. Number of shipments.
- a. Name of competitor, line 2.
- b. Item number.
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
Look up cross-referenced forms by series and number. DD numbering is unified across the Department, which removes the usual step of identifying which service issued the thing.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when notice language is amended. None of that reaches you. Checking not stated at download is the entire defence, and it is cheaper than repeating a submission.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1654?
- DD Form 1654, Evaluation of Transportation Cost Factors, April 1999
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?