Assess whether an alternate source is technically qualified (c28f53)

SITUATION Lead-time outlier report arrived with a TDP that is marked incomplete but still on contract for DLA item manager's data counterpart. That is a Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence decision on an alternate source is in a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data.

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 lead-time outlier report after a TDP that is marked incomplete but still on contract.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. DLA item manager's data counterpart can defend Fund and move materiel from lead-time outlier report after a TDP that is marked incomplete but still on contract in a Defense Sustainment challenge. 2. DLA item manager's data counterpart cannot defend Fund and move materiel from lead-time outlier report; Cannibalize or substitute is what the extract actually supports after a TDP that is marked incomplete but still on contract. 3. A TDP that is marked incomplete but still on contract never reached the population in lead-time outlier report — reopen intake, do not close an alternate source is. 4. Two facts in lead-time outlier report after a TDP that is marked incomplete but still on contract conflict for DLA item manager's data counterpart; hold this Depot Procurement Intelligence file.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Trace the funding or cannibalization line that would actually move lead-time outlier report. 2. Test whether the shortfall is materiel, maintenance posting, or a bad count. 3. Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in lead-time outlier report. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read lead-time outlier report against a TDP that is marked incomplete but still on contract and write the one fact that would move an alternate source is 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 (lead-time outlier report after a TDP that is marked incomplete but still on contract). If lead-time outlier report cannot force a Defense Sustainment label under Depot Procurement Intelligence, stop. Do not invent missing evidence a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data does not have.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Defense Sustainment option on an alternate source is, then the evidence in lead-time outlier report, then the action for DLA item manager's data counterpart - Hypothesis scorecard against lead-time outlier report: supported / rejected / untestable - Named option among Fund and move materiel, Cannibalize or substitute, Defer a cycle and the fact that kills the others - Owner and next date for DLA item manager's data counterpart in a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data