Assess whether an alternate source is technically qualified (cf5bb5)

SITUATION A BPA used for what looks like a major end item put alternate-source qualification packet in front of obsolescence and DMSMS analyst in a workload that shifted from organic repair to contract. This Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence decision is an alternate source is from alternate-source qualification packet, and the live options are Fund and move materiel, Cannibalize or substitute, Defer a cycle.

DECISION Obsolescence and DMSMS analyst in a workload that shifted from organic repair to contract 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. The population in alternate-source qualification packet is the one a BPA used for what looks like a major end item named, so Fund and move materiel follows for this Depot Procurement Intelligence file. 2. The population in alternate-source qualification packet is adjacent only to a BPA used for what looks like a major end item; Cannibalize or substitute is the honest Defense Sustainment call. 3. A workload that shifted from organic repair to contract already contained a BPA used for what looks like a major end item before alternate-source qualification packet arrived; no new Depot Procurement Intelligence path. 4. Provenance on alternate-source qualification packet after a BPA used for what looks like a major end item is broken; do not pick Fund and move materiel or Cannibalize or substitute yet.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in alternate-source qualification packet. 2. Quantify mission impact if an alternate source is is deferred one cycle in a workload that shifted from organic repair to contract. 3. 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. 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 an alternate source is for obsolescence and DMSMS analyst.

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). The follow-on Depot Procurement Intelligence action is what obsolescence and DMSMS analyst does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Defense Sustainment option on an alternate source is, then the evidence in alternate-source qualification packet, then the action for obsolescence and DMSMS analyst - 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