Assess whether cost history can support a fair-and-reasonable call (9e262b)

SITUATION Repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources has one working extract — depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers — after UCAs older than the local policy cap. If depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers cannot support cost history can support, the only defensible Defense Sustainment output is hold.

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 depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers after UCAs older than the local policy cap.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers reads as Fund and move materiel once UCAs older than the local policy cap is lined up to the same Defense Sustainment population. 2. Depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers is closer to Cannibalize or substitute after UCAs older than the local policy cap; Fund and move materiel would over-claim this Depot Procurement Intelligence extract. 3. Defer a cycle is still live in depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers for repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources. 4. Depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers is missing the fact repair-vs-buy decision support lead needs after UCAs older than the local policy cap; stop this Defense Sustainment close.

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 UCAs older than the local policy cap and write the one fact that would move cost history can support for repair-vs-buy decision support lead.

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 UCAs older than the local policy cap). If depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers cannot force a Defense Sustainment label under Depot Procurement Intelligence, stop. Do not invent missing evidence an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources does not have.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Defense Sustainment option on cost history can support, then the evidence in depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers, then the action for repair-vs-buy decision support lead - Hypothesis scorecard against depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers: 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 repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources