MIL-HDBK-965 Acquisition Practices for Parts Management No S/S DocumentThis handbook is a guide for Military Acquisition Activities AA in the evaluation of contractor responses to Requests for Proposals RFPs with respect to parts program management and standardization and will help determine to what extent parts management and standardization should be for a given program.

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A.2  STATEMENT OF WORK EXAMPLES.

APPENDIX  A

A.2.1  Tasks for the four options.  The specific acquisition requirements may require the tailoring of the principal SOW tasks.

A.2.1.1  Option A.  To invoke option A, the AA may use or tailor the following wording:

"The contractor shall select parts and conduct a parts management program, in accordance with the contractor's standard procedures, which assures the equipment (or system) meets the specification performance requirements with the lowest life cycle costs."

Optional task:  "Within        days after contract award, the contractor shall provide a copy of their documented internal procedures."

Additional optional statement:  "The contractor may request parts selection and application advice from the Acquisition Activity and the Military Parts Control Advisory Group."

A.2.1.2  Option B.  To invoke option B, the AA may use or tailor the following wording:

"The contractor shall select parts and conduct a parts management program, in accordance with the contractor's standard procedures, which assures the equipment (or system) meets the specification performance requirements with the lowest life cycle costs.  The Acquisition Activity will conduct quarterly (semiannual, annual, etc.) reviews of the parts program to assess conformance to internal procedures, application of parts for meeting system performance requirements, and parts problem areas."

Optional task:  "Within        days after contract award, the contractor shall provide a copy of their documented internal procedures."

Additional optional statement:  "The contractor may request parts selection and application advice from the Acquisition Activity and the Military Parts Control Advisory Group."

A.2.1.3  Option C.  To invoke option C, the AA may use or tailor the following wording:

"The contractor shall select parts from a parts selection baseline and conduct a parts management program, in accordance with the contractor's standard procedures, that assures the equipment (or system) meets the specification performance requirements with the lowest life cycle costs.  A source for selecting parts is be the (select one:  (a) electrical, (b) electronic (c) mechanical, or (d) electro- mechanical) Government Furnished Baseline(s).  The Acquisition Activity will conduct quarterly (semiannual, annual, etc.) reviews of the parts program to assess conformance to internal procedures, application of parts for meeting system performance requirements and parts problem areas.

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