Assess whether cost history can support a fair-and-reasonable call (8e7dd1)

SITUATION Obsolescence and DMSMS analyst in a workload that shifted from organic repair to contract has one working extract — alternate-source qualification packet — after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item. If alternate-source qualification packet cannot support cost history can support, the only defensible Defense Sustainment output is hold.

DECISION Obsolescence and DMSMS analyst in a workload that shifted from organic repair to contract must choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold using alternate-source qualification packet after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Obsolescence and DMSMS analyst can defend Fund and move materiel from alternate-source qualification packet after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item in a Defense Sustainment challenge. 2. Obsolescence and DMSMS analyst cannot defend Fund and move materiel from alternate-source qualification packet; Cannibalize or substitute is what the extract actually supports after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item. 3. A BPA used for what looks like a major end item never reached the population in alternate-source qualification packet — reopen intake, do not close cost history can support. 4. Two facts in alternate-source qualification packet after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item conflict for obsolescence and DMSMS analyst; hold this Depot Procurement Intelligence file.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in alternate-source qualification packet. 2. Quantify mission impact if cost history can support is deferred one cycle in a workload that shifted from organic repair to contract. 3. Reconcile depot demand in alternate-source qualification packet to fleet readiness and NSN coverage after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read alternate-source qualification packet against a BPA used for what looks like a major end item and write the one fact that would move cost history can support for obsolescence and DMSMS analyst.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold on this Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence packet (alternate-source qualification packet after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item). Lead with the Defense Sustainment option alternate-source qualification packet can support after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item, then the two facts that force it, then the Monday action for obsolescence and DMSMS analyst in a workload that shifted from organic repair to contract.