Module 2.1 Execution Phase Flashcards
Constitutional basis for Appropriations
Article 1, Section 9
DoD major appropriation categories
Military Personnel (MILPERS)
Operation and Maintenance (O&M)
Research, Development, Test, & Evaluation (RDT&E)
Procurement
Military Construction (MILCON)
Expense appropriations
O&M and MILPERS
Investment Appropriations
Procurement and MILCON
Could cover both expenses and investments appropriations
RDT&E
Purchase of major end items and defense systems
Initial issue of spares for above items
All costs necessary to deliver a useful end item intended for operational use or inventory
Procurement:
Three years investment type appropriation
Shipbuilding and Conversion
(Navy appropriation is 5 years plus extension for some specific activities)
MILCON categories:
Major military construction projects
Construction of military schools
Construction of military facilities and bases
Development of equipment, material, or computer application software
Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E)
Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E)
Operational costs for R&D dedicated installations
RDT&E
Prepare annual budget requests on the basis of funding needed to obligate for expenses anticipated to be required to operate and maintain DoD activities for the fiscal year.
Annual Funding: O&M and MILPERS
The rule governing budgeting of RDT&E
Incremental Funding Policy
The annual budget estimates for _____ Projects and programs, including developmental and operational ____ and _____ programs, are prepared on an _______ programmed basis.
RDT&E; Test; Evaluation; Incrementally.
The ___________ budgeting policy, provides that only those funds required for work in a given fiscal year are to be included in the RDT&E budget request for the fiscal year.
Incremental
Who authorize the financing of a total RDT&E requirement that can take more than 12 months but less than 18 months in one fiscal year?
The USD(C), under DoD 7000. 14R, Volume 2A, Chapter 1, Section 10214, Paragraph C.1.b)
The annual budget request must cover the total estimated cost to deliver a given quantity of complete, military usable end items in a 12 month funded delivery period.
Full Funding Policy: Procurement and MILCON
Governing concepts of Full finding policy
Total estimated cost
Useable end items
Funded delivery period
Total estimated cost
Useable end items
Funded delivery period
Full funding policy governing concepts
All funds required to complete the delivery of each buy will be included in the budget request for the year of the planned contract award, regardless of the date the contracted item(s) will be delivered.
Full funding policy
True of False
With respect to Procurement programs, the full funding policy calls for providing funding each fiscal year to procure a specified quantity of complete, usable end items. However, piecemeal procurement of systems is permitted.
FALSE
True of False
With respect to Procurement programs, the full funding policy calls for providing funding each fiscal year to procure a specified quantity of complete, usable end items. Thus, piecemeal procurement of systems is not permitted.
TRUE
True or False
The Component cannot buy one part of the end item one year, another part the next year, and then another part the third year. The Component must contract each year for some number of completely fabricated and ready-to-perform systems or useable building.
True
Funded Delivery Period is a 12-month period starting with the month in which the contractor, by the terms of the planned contract, is expected to deliver the first item of a production contract. The maximum number of production items a DoD Component can budget for is the maximum quantity the contractor can deliver in that 12 month period.
During Contract Execution, which applies?
Contract Provision or Budgeting Policies Provisions?
Contract provisions
The 12-month funded delivery period limitation is relative to budgeting policies
Funds to procure certain components, material, or effort in advance of the end item buy, to preclude serious and costly fluctuation in program continuity.
Advance Procurement
What circumstances justify the use of Advance Procurement?
- Lead time of component greater than life of the appropriation
- Lead time of component significantly longer than remainder of end item
- When necessary to maintain (protect) planned production schedule
What is an Advance Procurement?
It is an appropriate exception to the full-funding policy. An advance procurement is described as funds to procure certain components, material, or effort in advance of the end item buy, to preclude serious and costly fluctuation in program continuity.
What are the budgetary implications of using Advance Procurement?
- Minimum amount budgeted equals termination liability of total cost or long lead time items being procured.
- Budgeted amount generally requested one fiscal year in advance of related end item contract.
- Budgeted amount is shown as a separate line entry.
- Minimum amount budgeted equals termination liability of total cost or long lead time items being procured.
- Budgeted amount generally requested one fiscal year in advance of related end item contract.
- Budgeted amount is shown as a separate line entry.
Budgetary implications of using an Advance Procurement
Why should Advance Procurement be used only when the economic benefits are significant?
Because the authorization for the use advance procurement limits the Milestone Decision Authority’s (MDA) flexibility; and It should be used only with MDA concurrence
The process, planning and ultimate contract by which government may for the purchase of supplies or services for more than one, but normally not more than five (5) years. Generally associated with Economic Order Quantity procurement action
Multiyear Procurement
Example of an advance procurement exception
Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
What is the difference between the MYP and an option-type contract?
Option contract only obligates the Government one year at a time, whereas the MYP contract obligates the government for the full five (5) years of systems at the time of the contract signature, but it is funded annually.
What is the purpose of MYP?
To reduce program cost growth and introduce stability into the acquisition process.
Since the funding of EOQ subsystem purchase associated with a MYP is funded as an ______________, it falls under the ___________ exception to the full funding principle. While funding for EOQ procurement is usually included in ____________ budget requests, an exception can be granted by the USD(C) for it to be included as a recurring cost in the contract cancellation charge.
Advance Procurement
Criteria MYP candidates must meet to limit risks
- Substantial savings (minimum 10% or a little less for costly programs with high dollar value of savings)
- Continuity / Stable requirement (No significant downward change) over the term of the multiyear contract.
- Funding availability and stability
- Design stability
- Realistic cost estimates
- National security enhancement
- Impact on Industrial base
Congress mandated two-step multiyear approval process
- Proposed multiyear contract costs provided with budget submission.
- Proposed multiyear contract costs provided before contract award.
- Contracts
- MIPR (DoD Form 448)
Common obligation documents
- Used to order work or services from another DoD entity for effort that extends beyond the fiscal year for maintenance or production
- When accepted in writing by the performing activity, the amount is recorded as an obligation.
- No de-obligation of the order for the unexecuted portion when the cited appropriation expires (Title 41. U.S. .Code, Section 6307)
Project Orders
Project Orders
Economy Act Orders
Types of MIPR
- Intragovernmental order that does not qualify as a project order.
- An order that will produce a useful service or item by the end of the fiscal year.
- Unexecuted portion of the order must be de-obligated when the cited appropriation expires (Title 31, U,S, Code Section 1535)
Economic Act Order
The ________ is used by a DoD activity (the “requesting agency”) to place an order for supplies or non-personal services with a “performing agency” that could be another DoD activity or a non-DoD Federal activity willing to accept such an order.
MIPR
When the MIPR is used internally with DoD, it could be as a __________ or a ____________ and as a __________ order or an__________ order.
Direct citation; Reimbursable order; Project order; Economic order.
When a MIPR is used between a DoD activity and a non-DoD Federal activity, it could be as a __________ or a ___________ in the form of an economic act order-but not a ___________.
Direct citation; Reimbursable order; Project order.
When a MIPR is used between a DoD activity and a non-DoD Federal activity, could it be as a direct citation or a reimbursable order in the form of a Project order?
No, in an Economic Act order only.
The performing agency awards a contract on behalf of the requesting agency and uses the appropriation fund cite provided by the requesting agency on the MIPR. The order is recorded as an obligation by the requesting agency when it is notified in writing that the performing agency has awarded the contract or when a copy of the contract is received.
Direct Citation
The performing agency accepts funds provided by the MIPR into its own DoD appropriation or business operations (revolving) fund. Funds are normally considered obligated when the performing agency accepts and returns the signed MIPR to the requesting agency. However, unless otherwise provided by law, if the performing agency is not able to provide the ordered goods or services while the funds are “current”, the unused funds should be returned to the requesting agency or they will expire in the possession of the performing agency.
Reimbursable Order
___________ are subject to the same fiscal limitations as the appropriation from which they are funded; therefore, the requesting agency must provide a certification on the order that the funds cited are properly chargeable for the purposes cited in the order.
Economy Act Orders
De-obligation of potentially expiring funds can be an issue. According to the _______, funds must be de-obligated to the extent that the servicing agency has not incurred obligations before the end of the period of availability of the original appropriation cited on the order.
FMR