Why aren I able to use the Government CTO/TMC to booked my rental car and lodging for official travel as a contracted employee?
Contractors are NOT Government employees. Therefore, any travel rates offered by transportation carriers, negotiated by the Government for “employees or uniformed personnel” (such as the city-pair air fare contracts negotiated by GSA and the rental car rate agreements negotiated by the (Military) Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC)) for official government business) do NOT apply to contractors or contractors’ employees. Commercial car or hotel vendors may voluntarily offer discounted rates for contractors’ employees at their discretion or contractors can even negotiate rates for their employees with the carrier, hotel, or rental car vendor.
