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 decs Secure eBusiness for the world of Defence
The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence and Capgemini have committed to a ten year PPP Public Private Partnership for the provision of e-commerce and e-business services, which are made available to the Defence community via the Defence Electronic Commerce Service (DECS).
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08 February 2010

VAT CHANGE

Please note that the VAT change will take place from 1st January 2010.  All invoices dated after this date should be issued with the new VAT rating of 17.5%, please ensure that you make the necessary changes to your systems to be able to accommodate this.

DCP

As of the 2nd November 2009, the Information Manager component of DCP has been upgraded to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). As well as providing greater resilience, the enhanced capabilities also include:-

Enhanced Document Management
Enhanced List functionality
Record Management
Workflow
Project Tasks
Key Performance Indicators
Blogs
Wikis.

New P2P Connectivity

The MOD DECS project is pleased to announce an additional option for Trading Partners has been implemented for P2P connectivity; XML messages over an HTTPS link. For more information please see the P2P tab under DECS services or select the following link P2P XML MIG/SIG

New Valued Added Service

Electronic Business Capability (EBC) will be hosted on DECS from November 2008.  Please see more information on the DECS Services tab.

Change to Shipping Labels

A new shipping label has been released.  This will combine IP, P2P and EBC.

Registration and User Status

As of the 31/01/2010, DECS now has 1,030Trading Partners and 28,230 users spread over some 300 MOD sites.


26 Jan 2010
DECS Planned Downtime, Maintenance Slots & New Releases
Monthly Maintenance Slots 2010 These are scheduled to run from 18:00 to 22:00 and will affect ALL Services, the schedule for 2010 is as follows:    9th February 2010 16th March 2010 13th April 2010 18th May 2010 8th June 2010 6th July...

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