Assess whether cost history can support a fair-and-reasonable call (0843b7)
August 31, 2026
SITUATION A contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data cannot treat a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock as incidental context on technical-data-package completeness checklist. DLA item manager's data counterpart must close cost history can support from that extract under Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence.
DECISION DLA item manager's data counterpart in a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data must choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold using technical-data-package completeness checklist after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock.
HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. A OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock is noise around an already-controlled Depot Procurement Intelligence process in a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data, given technical-data-package completeness checklist. 2. A OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock is the event in technical-data-package completeness checklist that forces Fund and move materiel for DLA item manager's data counterpart under Defense Sustainment. 3. Technical-data-package completeness checklist shows a one-file miss after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock, not a Depot Procurement Intelligence program failure. 4. Technical-data-package completeness checklist cannot decide cost history can support yet after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock; hold is the only Defense Sustainment close a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data can defend.
ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Test whether the shortfall is materiel, maintenance posting, or a bad count. 2. Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in technical-data-package completeness checklist. 3. Quantify mission impact if cost history can support is deferred one cycle in a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read technical-data-package completeness checklist against a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock and write the one fact that would move cost history can support for DLA item manager's data counterpart.
RECOMMENDATION Choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold on this Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence packet (technical-data-package completeness checklist after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock). The follow-on Depot Procurement Intelligence action is what DLA item manager's data counterpart does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.
COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Defense Sustainment option on cost history can support, then the evidence in technical-data-package completeness checklist, then the action for DLA item manager's data counterpart - Hypothesis scorecard against technical-data-package completeness checklist: supported / rejected / untestable - Missing page in technical-data-package completeness checklist after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock, if any - Regulatory or exam hook Depot Procurement Intelligence would cite
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