Assess whether cost history can support a fair-and-reasonable call (0e21ff)

SITUATION A depot whose parts master does not match DLA cannot treat a BPA used for what looks like a major end item as incidental context on repair-history file that will not tie to cost. NSN research lead must close cost history can support from that extract under Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence.

DECISION NSN research lead in a depot whose parts master does not match DLA must choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold using repair-history file that will not tie to cost after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. NSN research lead can defend Fund and move materiel from repair-history file that will not tie to cost after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item in a Defense Sustainment challenge. 2. NSN research lead cannot defend Fund and move materiel from repair-history file that will not tie to cost; 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 repair-history file that will not tie to cost — reopen intake, do not close cost history can support. 4. Two facts in repair-history file that will not tie to cost after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item conflict for NSN research lead; hold this Depot Procurement Intelligence file.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in repair-history file that will not tie to cost. 2. Quantify mission impact if cost history can support is deferred one cycle in a depot whose parts master does not match DLA. 3. Reconcile depot demand in repair-history file that will not tie to cost 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 repair-history file that will not tie to cost 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 NSN research lead.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold on this Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence packet (repair-history file that will not tie to cost after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item). If repair-history file that will not tie to cost cannot force a Defense Sustainment label under Depot Procurement Intelligence, stop. Do not invent missing evidence a depot whose parts master does not match DLA does not have.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Defense Sustainment option on cost history can support, then the evidence in repair-history file that will not tie to cost, then the action for NSN research lead - Hypothesis scorecard against repair-history file that will not tie to cost: supported / rejected / untestable - What changes cost history can support if a BPA used for what looks like a major end item is later withdrawn - Named option among Fund and move materiel, Cannibalize or substitute, Defer a cycle and the fact that kills the others