Item Management Purchase Request/Purchase Instrument Support

This contract was awarded on a sole source basis, without competition, as an 8(a) source-directed acquisition in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 19.8, Contracting with the Small Business Administration (The 8(a) Program), the FAR supplements, and with the "Partnership Agreement between the U.S. Small Business Administration and the U.S. Department of Defense," identified at Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement 219.800(a). The purpose of this effort is to provide the 848th Supply Chain Management Group (SCMG) with item management business process support, using a dedicated contractor support team who are subject matter experts in training and assisting item managers (IMs), material managers (MMs), and production management specialists (PMS) in the development and processing of complete packages for purchase requests (PRs), also referred to as purchase instruments (PIs), henceforth PR/PI. This support includes assisting IM/MM/PMSs with the tracking of PR/PIs in the Purchase Request Process System (PRPS) throughout the process and encompasses PR/PI packages submitted for items managed by IM/MM/PMSs that work in the four squadrons of the 848 SCMG at Tinker Air Force Base. The contractor shall provide an IM/MM/PMS support team that shall provide logistics support and serve as "troubleshooters" for problems and issues that arise during the PR/PI process. The tracking of PR/PIs in PRPS includes analyzing, researching, information gathering, organizing, and developing PR/PI status reports for the 848 SCMG leadership.