Assess whether cost history can support a fair-and-reasonable call (1d035c)

SITUATION DLA item manager's data counterpart in a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data has one working extract — depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers — after a new source that has never made this form-fit-function. If depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers cannot support cost history can support, the only defensible Defense Sustainment output is hold.

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 depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers after a new source that has never made this form-fit-function.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. DLA item manager's data counterpart can defend Fund and move materiel from depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers after a new source that has never made this form-fit-function in a Defense Sustainment challenge. 2. DLA item manager's data counterpart cannot defend Fund and move materiel from depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers; Cannibalize or substitute is what the extract actually supports after a new source that has never made this form-fit-function. 3. A new source that has never made this form-fit-function never reached the population in depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers — reopen intake, do not close cost history can support. 4. Two facts in depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers after a new source that has never made this form-fit-function conflict for DLA item manager's data counterpart; hold this Depot Procurement Intelligence file.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Quantify mission impact if cost history can support is deferred one cycle in a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data. 2. Reconcile depot demand in depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers to fleet readiness and NSN coverage after a new source that has never made this form-fit-function. 3. Trace the funding or cannibalization line that would actually move 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 a new source that has never made this form-fit-function and write the one fact that would move cost history can support 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 (depot transaction file with duplicate document numbers after a new source that has never made this form-fit-function). 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.