Contractor Recommendations for Apache Helicopter Spares Provisioning
Abstract
Provisioning is the management process of determining and acquiring support items necessary to initially operate and maintain an end item such as an aircraft. For provisioning of spares, the Army Materiel Command (AMC) required its contractors to recommend the items needed for initial support of a given end item and determine whether items were already stocked by DoD or were new candidates for procurement. Contractors were also required to provide predictions of maintenance factors and other management data for development of spares requirements. Army Commodity Support Commands used contractor recommendations to determine quantities of parts to be procured for new systems. Initial and follow-on provisioning of spare and repair parts for the Army's Apache helicopter totaled about $500 million for FY 1985 through FY 1990. The audit objective was to determine if the Army was receiving adequate and timely data on provisioning of spares from contractors to serve as a sound basis for initial purchase of parts for new weapons systems. We also determined the effectiveness of internal control procedures in place to review and evaluate the quality of contractor estimates and forecasting data before approving procurement of the initial quantities. To accomplish the audit within available resources and a reasonable period, the objective was narrowed to a specific weapons system - the Apache helicopter.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 24, 1991
- Accession Number
- ADA379865
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense