Assess whether cost history can support a fair-and-reasonable call (207b80)

SITUATION A live Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file in an ALC working a shortage on a high-demand NSN now turns on repair-history file that will not tie to cost after a sole-source claim the CAGE file does not support. Depot procurement-intelligence analyst should state what that extract proves for whether cost history can support a fair-and-reasonable call.

DECISION Depot procurement-intelligence analyst in an ALC working a shortage on a high-demand NSN 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 sole-source claim the CAGE file does not support.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Authorize Fund and move materiel now; repair-history file that will not tie to cost already has the discriminator after a sole-source claim the CAGE file does not support. 2. Keep Cannibalize or substitute in force until repair-history file that will not tie to cost is completed after a sole-source claim the CAGE file does not support for depot procurement-intelligence analyst. 3. Treat repair-history file that will not tie to cost as Defer a cycle because both readings appear after a sole-source claim the CAGE file does not support. 4. Refuse a Defense Sustainment close: depot procurement-intelligence analyst does not have the decision cost history can support turns on in repair-history file that will not tie to cost.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Trace the funding or cannibalization line that would actually move repair-history file that will not tie to cost. 2. Test whether the shortfall is materiel, maintenance posting, or a bad count. 3. Compare on-hand, due-in, and condemned quantities in repair-history file that will not tie to cost. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read repair-history file that will not tie to cost against a sole-source claim the CAGE file does not support and write the one fact that would move cost history can support for depot procurement-intelligence analyst.

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 sole-source claim the CAGE file does not support). The follow-on Depot Procurement Intelligence action is what depot procurement-intelligence analyst does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

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 depot procurement-intelligence analyst - Hypothesis scorecard against repair-history file that will not tie to cost: supported / rejected / untestable - Owner and next date for depot procurement-intelligence analyst in an ALC working a shortage on a high-demand NSN - What changes cost history can support if a sole-source claim the CAGE file does not support is later withdrawn