Assess whether an alternate source is technically qualified (2fcbf8)

SITUATION Vendor-base mapper owns this Depot Procurement Intelligence review in a sustainment cell after a failed repair turnaround. A BPA used for what looks like a major end item is the triggering event; depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers is the evidence for whether an alternate source is technically qualified.

DECISION Vendor-base mapper in a sustainment cell after a failed repair turnaround must choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold using depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. If Trace the funding or cannibalization line that would actually move depot transaction file with duplicate document number holds, depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item is Fund and move materiel for an alternate source is in a sustainment cell after a failed repair turnaround. 2. If Trace the funding or cannibalization line that would actually move depot transaction file with duplicate document number fails, vendor-base mapper should take Cannibalize or substitute on this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence packet. 3. Choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold on this D is premature unless depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item names the owner for an alternate source is. 4. Depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers is silent on the Depot Procurement Intelligence discriminator after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item; vendor-base mapper should not invent a Defense Sustainment label.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Trace the funding or cannibalization line that would actually move depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers. 2. Test whether the shortfall is materiel, maintenance posting, or a bad count. 3. Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers against a BPA used for what looks like a major end item and write the one fact that would move an alternate source is for vendor-base mapper.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold on this Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence packet (depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item). The follow-on Depot Procurement Intelligence action is what vendor-base mapper does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.