The Feasibility of Shifting Small Purchase Workload between Navy Field Contracting Activities.

Abstract

The thesis focused on those factors considered critical to making a decision for shifting small purchase workload between contracting activities of the Naval Supply Systems Command. The results of this study indicate that it is feasible to transfer small purchase workload under certain conditions. The primary factors to optimize customer response time are: (1) can the requirement be procured through an existing Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA), Blanket Purchasing Agreement (BPA), or automated Request for Quotations (RFQ); (2) technical complexity (3) purchase priority; (4) receiver of the shifted workload; (5) customer; (6) proximity of the contracting activity to the customer and supplier; and, (7) age of the document. It is recommended that small purchase documents be shifted among Navy Field Contracting System activities as a viable means for improving overall customer response time.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA165256

Entities

People

  • Geoffrey M. Gannaway

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agreements
  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Inventory Control
  • Lessons Learned
  • Logistics
  • Military Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Security
  • Supply Depots
  • Transportation
  • United States
  • Weapon Systems
  • Workload

Readers

  • Economics
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.