Assess whether unpriced actions should be stopped (45c847)

SITUATION In a program office facing a diminishing-manufacturing source, alternate-source qualification packet is the evidence after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item. Hill AF logistics data reviewer has to pick Fund and move materiel or Cannibalize or substitute for this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence close using alternate-source qualification packet.

DECISION Hill AF logistics data reviewer in a program office facing a diminishing-manufacturing source 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. Authorize Fund and move materiel now; alternate-source qualification packet already has the discriminator after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item. 2. Keep Cannibalize or substitute in force until alternate-source qualification packet is completed after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item for Hill AF logistics data reviewer. 3. Treat alternate-source qualification packet as Defer a cycle because both readings appear after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item. 4. Refuse a Defense Sustainment close: Hill AF logistics data reviewer does not have the decision unpriced actions should be stopped turns on in alternate-source qualification packet.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Quantify mission impact if unpriced actions should be stopped is deferred one cycle in a program office facing a diminishing-manufacturing source. 2. 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. 3. Trace the funding or cannibalization line that would actually move alternate-source qualification packet. 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 unpriced actions should be stopped for Hill AF logistics data reviewer.

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). If alternate-source qualification packet cannot force a Defense Sustainment label under Depot Procurement Intelligence, stop. Do not invent missing evidence a program office facing a diminishing-manufacturing source does not have.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Defense Sustainment option on unpriced actions should be stopped, then the evidence in alternate-source qualification packet, then the action for Hill AF logistics data reviewer - Hypothesis scorecard against alternate-source qualification packet: supported / rejected / untestable - Depot Procurement Intelligence finding in alternate-source qualification packet that a second reviewer can re-perform - Missing page in alternate-source qualification packet after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item, if any