Assess whether TDP is complete enough to compete the work (fc2931)
August 31, 2026
SITUATION A repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x put alternate-source qualification packet in front of DLA item manager's data counterpart in a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data. This Defense Sustainment / Depot Procurement Intelligence close is TDP is complete enough from alternate-source qualification packet, and the live options are Fund and move materiel, Cannibalize or substitute, Defer a cycle.
DECISION DLA item manager's data counterpart in a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data must choose Fund and move materiel / Cannibalize or substitute / Defer a cycle / Hold using alternate-source qualification packet after a repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x.
HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. The population in alternate-source qualification packet is the one a repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x 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 repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x; Cannibalize or substitute is the honest Defense Sustainment call. 3. A contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data already contained a repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x before alternate-source qualification packet arrived; no new Depot Procurement Intelligence path. 4. Provenance on alternate-source qualification packet after a repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x is broken; do not pick Fund and move materiel or Cannibalize or substitute yet.
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 TDP is complete enough is deferred one cycle in a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data. 4. For this Defense Sustainment Depot Procurement Intelligence file, read alternate-source qualification packet against a repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x and write the one fact that would move TDP is complete enough for DLA item manager's data counterpart.
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 repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x). If alternate-source qualification packet cannot force a Defense Sustainment label under Depot Procurement Intelligence, stop. Do not invent missing evidence a contracting shop mapping vendors from file-first data does not have.
COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Defense Sustainment option on TDP is complete enough, then the evidence in alternate-source qualification packet, then the action for DLA item manager's data counterpart - 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 repair cost that exceeds replacement by 3x, if any
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