Assess whether cost history can support a fair-and-reasonable call (16b0b5)

SITUATION Repair-vs-buy decision support lead is responsible for cost history can support in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources, using alternate-source qualification packet as the only working extract. A OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock is what reset the timeline for this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file.

DECISION Repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources must choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold using alternate-source qualification packet after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Alternate-source qualification packet reads as Fund and move materiel once a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock is lined up to the same Defense Sustainment population. 2. Alternate-source qualification packet is closer to Cannibalize or substitute after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock; Fund and move materiel would over-claim this Depot Procurement Intelligence extract. 3. Defer a cycle is still live in alternate-source qualification packet for repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources. 4. Alternate-source qualification packet is missing the fact repair-vs-buy decision support lead needs after a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock; stop this Defense Sustainment close.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Test whether the shortfall is materiel, maintenance posting, or a bad count. 2. Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in alternate-source qualification packet. 3. Quantify mission impact if cost history can support is deferred one cycle in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read alternate-source qualification packet against a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock and write the one fact that would move cost history can support for repair-vs-buy decision support lead.

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 OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock). If alternate-source qualification packet cannot force a Defense Sustainment label under Depot Procurement Intelligence, stop. Do not invent missing evidence an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources does not have.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Defense Sustainment option on cost history can support, then the evidence in alternate-source qualification packet, then the action for repair-vs-buy decision support lead - Hypothesis scorecard against alternate-source qualification packet: supported / rejected / untestable - Owner and next date for repair-vs-buy decision support lead in an engineering support activity reviewing alternate sources - What changes cost history can support if a OEM end-of-life notice with 90 days of stock is later withdrawn