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DLA Land and Maritime
"Saving money, keeping product performance and quality at their highest, and meeting the customers' expectations are just a few of the things that drive the men and women of DLA Land and Maritime, Value Management Unit (DLA Land and Maritime-VE)"
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The Value Management Unit provides a wide range of engineering and technical support functions. Our diverse and innovative work force is dedicated to technical specialties.
The Value Management Unit seeks out sole source, limited competition, over priced, low reliability and hard to buy items to improve their value and support posture. We essentially seek out poor value and employ source development or competition enhancement techniques. In most cases we are developing alternate sources and work closely with the Engineering Support Activity (ESAs) and the weapon system program management offices to coordinate the development and the technical requirements of the items in question. In addition, we use reverse engineering and should cost to develop technical data packages or provide a detailed estimates of the price of parts, which is used during the contract negotiation process.
The Value Engineering Project Team (VEE) provides a wide range of engineering and technical support. Our team reviews items managed by DLA Land and Maritime to identify potential projects or studies that improve the worth of the items. The VEE Team is made up of several programs, Value Engineering, Reverse Engineering, Value Engineering Change Proposals, and Breakout Program.
A VECP is a proposal submitted to the Government by a contractor in accordance with the Value Engineering (VE) clause in the contract. It proposes a change that, if accepted and implemented, provides an eventual, overall cost saving to the Government. A VECP may be a change that updates an existing design to a current state-of-the-art technology, simplifies complex material by modifying or eliminating components, updates specifications/drawings providing improved data for future procurements, or reduces Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) items, to name a few examples. The VE provisions in a contract prescribe that the contractor receives a substantial share in the savings accrued as a result of implementation of the change. In other words, a VECP provides a vehicle through which acquisition and operating cost can be reduced, while the contractor's rate of return is increased. Thus, a VECP can be both a contractor and a Government management tool. General information can be obtained from the IDA web site.
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