Assess whether cost history can support a fair-and-reasonable call (74a81a)
August 31, 2026
SITUATION Unpriced contractual action aging list arrived with a new source that has never made this form-fit-function for NSN research lead. That is a Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence decision on cost history can support in a depot whose parts master does not match DLA.
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 unpriced contractual action aging list after a new source that has never made this form-fit-function.
HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Unpriced contractual action aging list reads as Fund and move materiel once a new source that has never made this form-fit-function is lined up to the same Defense Sustainment population. 2. Unpriced contractual action aging list is closer to Cannibalize or substitute after a new source that has never made this form-fit-function; Fund and move materiel would over-claim this Depot Procurement Intelligence extract. 3. Defer a cycle is still live in unpriced contractual action aging list for NSN research lead in a depot whose parts master does not match DLA. 4. Unpriced contractual action aging list is missing the fact NSN research lead needs after a new source that has never made this form-fit-function; stop this Defense Sustainment close.
ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in unpriced contractual action aging list. 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 unpriced contractual action aging list to fleet readiness and NSN coverage after a new source that has never made this form-fit-function. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read unpriced contractual action aging list 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 NSN research lead.
RECOMMENDATION Choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold on this Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence packet (unpriced contractual action aging list after a new source that has never made this form-fit-function). Lead with the Defense Sustainment option unpriced contractual action aging list can support after a new source that has never made this form-fit-function, then the two facts that force it, then the Monday action for NSN research lead in a depot whose parts master does not match DLA.
COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Defense Sustainment option on cost history can support, then the evidence in unpriced contractual action aging list, then the action for NSN research lead - Hypothesis scorecard against unpriced contractual action aging list: supported / rejected / untestable - Depot Procurement Intelligence finding in unpriced contractual action aging list that a second reviewer can re-perform - Missing page in unpriced contractual action aging list after a new source that has never made this form-fit-function, if any
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