Assess whether a cancelled spec is still being bought as if current (1cdeb1)

SITUATION Depot Procurement Intelligence work in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources now turns on a cancelled spec is because a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock put alternate-source qualification packet in play. Repair-vs-buy decision support lead should say what alternate-source qualification packet proves.

DECISION Repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources must choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold using alternate-source qualification packet after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Repair-vs-buy decision support lead can defend Fund and move materiel from alternate-source qualification packet after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock in a Defense Sustainment challenge. 2. Repair-vs-buy decision support lead cannot defend Fund and move materiel from alternate-source qualification packet; Cannibalize or substitute is what the extract actually supports after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock. 3. A OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock never reached the population in alternate-source qualification packet — reopen intake, do not close a cancelled spec is. 4. Two facts in alternate-source qualification packet after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock conflict for repair-vs-buy decision support lead; hold this Depot Procurement Intelligence file.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Trace the funding or cannibalization line that would actually move alternate-source qualification packet. 2. Test whether the shortfall is materiel, maintenance posting, or a bad count. 3. Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in alternate-source qualification packet. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read alternate-source qualification packet against a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock and write the one fact that would move a cancelled spec is for repair-vs-buy decision support lead.

RECOMMENDATION From alternate-source qualification packet after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock, choose Fund and move materiel when alternate-source qualification packet itself shows the discriminator for a cancelled spec is. Repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources should implement that path on this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file and name the two facts in alternate-source qualification packet that force it. If alternate-source qualification packet after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock cannot support Fund and move materiel versus Cannibalize or substitute, repair-vs-buy decision support lead must do not move materiel or funding on a count the depot file cannot reconstruct.