Insights
Working notes on the mechanics of aerospace and defense procurement, and tools that put them to use: what a buyer actually evaluates, where lead time comes from and how it is taken back out, and what a purchasing system review is really looking for.
How would your purchasing system read to a reviewer?
Twelve questions drawn from the twenty-four system criteria in DFARS 252.244-7001, each answered yes, partly or no, with a plain read at the end on where a Contractor Purchasing System Review would land and which gaps to close first. Nothing you answer leaves this page.
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Five engagements are written up on the work page — what the client was facing when they called, what we built, and what they were holding when we left.
Where this comes from
Sivad Enterprises LLC is a family-operated consulting practice in Denver, Colorado, 13 years in operation, and the method behind these notes comes from consultants who have run these functions rather than studied them: supplier bases of hundreds of companies, contract portfolios at major-program scale, and two decades of programs across NASA, the Department of Defense, and the defense and space industrial base.