DoD Procurement Policy for Body Armor

03/31/2008 Report No. D-2008-067 DoD Procurement Policy for Body Armor (70 pages, PDF)

  • “The Army and Marine Corps issued contracts and Federal Supply Schedule orders valued at more than $5.2 billion for body armor components. The Federal Acquisition Regulation requires contracting organizations to maintain adequate contract documentation to provide a complete acquisition history. Specific information concerning testing and approval of first articles was not included in 13 of 28 Army contracts and orders reviewed, and contracting files were not maintained in 11 of 28 Army contracts to show why procurement decisions were made. As a result, DoD has no assurance that first articles produced under 13 of the 28 contracts and orders reviewed met the required standards, or that 11 of the 28 contracts were awarded based on informed procurement decisions. We recommended that the Program Executive Office Soldier direct testing and evaluation of first articles for contract conformance before production on all contracts, update purchase descriptions, and document contractual actions for all body armor contracts.”
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