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5. DETAIL GUIDANCE.
5.1 Parts Management option flexibility and tailoring . The four options defined below are all keyed to the objectives of reducing life-cycle costs through parts standardization and minimizing future parts proliferation. These options include parts selection in the order of preference defined in 4.3. The Acquisition Activity should accept the contractor's procedure, select another option, or negotiate tailoring of specific points.
5.1.1 Option A - No formal Government guidance . The contractor's parts management program is totally an internal process in which the Government has no direct involvement. However, the Government does have an interest in ensuring that the contractor has a requirements based parts selection process which assures the product meets the performance criteria and minimizes life-cycle costs. See figure 1.
FIGURE 1. Option A - No formal Government guidance.
The following procedures are for use for successful implementation of option A:
a. The contractor should respond to RFPs, by describing methods to reduce life cycle costs, achieve GIDEP participation, achieve parts standardization to minimize parts proliferation, and prevent DMS cases.
b. Any monitoring of part selection and application by the AA and MPCAG should be limited to IPT
interfaces or as offered by the contractor.
c. There should be no Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) Data Item Description (DID) for data delivery for parts management.
d. The contractor may request advice from the AA and MPCAG on parts selections. If MPCAG parts advice is requested, MPCASS is the preferred method of submitting part evaluation requests.
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