Is Alternate Source Technically Qualified — DLA Item Manager's

Situation

NSN demand-and-backorder extract arrived with a BPA used for what looks like a major end item 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 NSN demand-and-backorder extract after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item.

Hypotheses to test

• The population in NSN demand-and-backorder extract is the one a BPA used for what looks like a major end item named, so Fund and move materiel follows for this Depot Procurement Intelligence file.
• The population in NSN demand-and-backorder extract is adjacent only to a BPA used for what looks like a major end item; Cannibalize or substitute is the honest Defense Sustainment call.
• A contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data already contained a BPA used for what looks like a major end item before NSN demand-and-backorder extract arrived; no new Depot Procurement Intelligence path.
• Provenance on NSN demand-and-backorder extract after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item is broken; do not pick Fund and move materiel or Cannibalize or substitute yet.

Analysis required

• Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in NSN demand-and-backorder extract.
• Quantify mission impact if an alternate source is is deferred one cycle in a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data.
• Reconcile depot demand in NSN demand-and-backorder extract to fleet readiness and NSN coverage after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item.
• For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read NSN demand-and-backorder extract 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 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 (NSN demand-and-backorder extract after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item). 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.