The Intra-Governmental Payment and Collection (IPAC) System is one of the major components
of the Government On-Line Accounting Link System II (GOALS II). The IPAC application's
primary purpose is to provide a standardized interagency fund transfer mechanism for Federal
Program Agencies (FPAs). IPAC facilitates the intra-governmental transfer of funds, with descriptive data
from one FPA to another.
The IPAC System contains multiple components:
the IPAC application;
the Retirement and Insurance Transfer System
(RITS);
Treasury Receivable Accounting and Collection
System (TRACS) interface;
Enrollment.
Phase I changes were implemented October
11, 2003, in support
of: (1) FMS' Governmentwide Accounting Modernization Project (GWA), (2)
Intra-governmental Transaction Elimination Efforts and (3) OMB's Intra-governmental
Transaction Portal (IGTP), the following changes were implemented in IPAC:
All IPAC payment, collection and adjustment transactions are required
to contain Sender Treasury Account Symbol (TAS) and
Sender Standard General Ledger (SGL) account information.
IPAC bulk file format
Release 2.1 was implemented. Bulk file submitters can no longer
submit transactions using the Release 1.0 format.
Transaction Report Downloads for both IPAC and TRACS transactions
in CSV/TSV
Format were modified in support of the Phase I changes.
ALCs receiving IPAC transactions have the capability to supplement
the transaction with Receiver SGL data. Providing Receiver SGL data
is optional.
IPAC will be unavailable on Sunday, October 10 and
Monday, October 11, 2004, due to a production power down. Please
do not send any IPAC bulk files or try to access IPAC On-line applications
on Sunday, October 10 and Monday, October 11. IPAC will be back
in operation on Tuesday, October 12 at 6:00 AM.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Please
call the FO Call Center Staff on (202) 874-8270 if you have any
questions.
