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Increment 1524 Aug 2027COR / Government PropertyDecision

Request to use the 713 LRS forklift

At the start of limited Command Post boulder-mockup work, Diamond Dogs Civil Works, LLC asks the Government to furnish a heavy forklift after its rented equipment fails.

Scenario descriptions

The situation, for each audience

Keep the trainer context out of trainee packets and read-aloud materials.

Trainee facing · Read aloud

Current situation

During an expressly released early-work package for Command Post boulder source acceptance, temporary staging, and a full-scale barrier mockup, Diamond Dogs Civil Works, LLC reports that its rented telehandler has suffered a mechanical failure. The contractor says replacement arrangements will increase costs and put the ten-day mockup window feeding the 35-percent design review at risk. Diamond Dogs asks to use the REX-45 heavy forklift owned by the Logistics Readiness Squadron (713 LRS) for ten days.

Johnny Sasaki, the 713 LRS equipment custodian, states by email that the REX-45 is “just sitting there” today. The contract requires Diamond Dogs to furnish its own equipment, but it could be modified to provide the REX-45 as Government-furnished property. Decide what analysis is required and whether the proposed modification should be made.

Trainer only · Do not issue

Facilitator context

Release at Increment 15 after the Command Post branch is selected. This tests the complete GFP business case: commercial alternatives, mission need, Government benefit, risk, accountability, clauses, attachments, property administration, and price consideration.

Intended evidence shows a commercial replacement is available the next day, the REX-45 is LRS’s only forklift of that capacity, and its unavailability would affect deployment cargo operations. The $68,000 reduction is real consideration, even when framed as removal of the full task-order value associated with the contractor's originally planned lifting equipment, but it does not cure the FAR 45.102(b) tests: Government requirements can otherwise be met, administrative and mission risk outweigh the acquisition benefit, and furnishing the only REX-45 substantially increases Government risk. Offer only allowing or disallowing the requested GFP modification. Disallowing it and requiring commercial replacement is the intended result.

Trainer clue bank

Regulatory signposts

5 sources

Direct trainees to a citation when they need a narrower clue. Have them apply the contract’s actual clauses, current thresholds, local policy, and the facts before treating any signpost as dispositive.

Release 01

Give initially

5 records

These establish the decision without answering the factual questions trainees should identify.

J-01

Diamond Dogs forklift request

Identifies Diamond Dogs Civil Works, LLC as the MACC prime, describes the rented-telehandler failure, requests ten days of GFP, and creates schedule urgency without volunteering a price concession.

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J-02

'Idle today' 713 LRS email

Tempts trainees to confuse one morning's yard status with lack of Government mission need over the requested ten days.

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J-03

REX-45 asset description

Identifies the property, capacity, condition, value, and ordinary issue controls without establishing mission availability.

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J-04

Contractor-furnished-equipment provision

Shows the awarded fixed-price equipment obligation and that no GFP was identified at award, while making clear that the extract alone does not decide whether a modification is proper.

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J-06

Command Post early-sitework schedule

Places the request eight days after notice to proceed in an expressly released boulder-staging and mockup package, creating schedule pressure without implying that final barriers are already being installed.

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Release 02 · Oral inject

Trainer addition

3 prompts

Give only after trainees have read and discussed the event. Use it to narrow attention without disclosing the answer.

Use this insert after J-05 and J-07 have been released and trainees have stated a tentative allow-or-disallow decision, but before accepting their final answer.

Say: ‘Diamond Dogs clarifies that it will remove the entire $68,000 value remaining in the task-order price for furnishing its originally planned lifting equipment. It asks only to use the 713 LRS REX-45 instead and says it can resume the early-work package immediately after a bilateral modification adds the forklift as GFP. Does that change your decision?’

Do not treat the concession as a separate offer or a new commercial-availability fact. It strengthens the proposed acquisition benefit, but the intended answer remains disallow: next-day commercial replacement means the requirement can be met otherwise, and the full credit does not eliminate the administrative burden or the substantial risk that 713 LRS will lose access to its only forklift of this capacity.

Release 03

Give only after trainee prompting

2 records

Use the prompt as a release gate; close-enough trainee questions should count when they seek the same underlying fact.

Prompt / triggerHandoutExercise purpose
PromptAsk what consideration or price reduction the contractor offers when contractor-furnished lifting equipment is replaced with GFP
HandoutJ-05
$68,000 price-reduction proposal
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PurposeRemoves the priced equipment value from the firm-fixed-price order and quantifies the proposed revised value without establishing GFP necessity or Government best interest.
PromptAsk whether commercially available replacement equipment can preserve the requested schedule
HandoutJ-07
Commercial heavy-lift rental quotations
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PurposeShows two responsive commercial sources can stage suitable equipment on 25 August, including a $74,500 next-day alternative that reconciles with the equipment allowance removed in J-05.

Facilitation lens

What a strong analysis should surface

  1. Evaluate both available dispositions against every FAR 45.102(b) condition. J-05 answers consideration; J-07 answers whether Government requirements can be met through a commercial alternative. Use the initial records, oral trainer facts, and listed authorities for the remaining benefit, risk, and administration analysis.
  2. The full $68,000 credit improves the benefit side of the business case; it does not satisfy the separate commercial-alternative and Government-risk conditions. Price consideration alone cannot make unnecessary GFP appropriate.
  3. Disallowing the request is the strongest intended result. A commercial replacement is available the next day, so Government requirements can otherwise be met; the REX-45's unique mission role, administration cost, and increased Government risk outweigh the $68,000 reduction.
  4. Allowing the request is incorrect on the intended facts even if the modification includes ordinary GFP controls, because those controls do not cure failure of the threshold policy tests.

Trainer-controlled decision menu

Available response options

2 options

Offer options in plain language and accept equivalent trainee analysis. Do not reveal the assessment labels. Use each availability gate before accepting a contextual response, and use the trainer line to redirect a superfluous answer immediately.

How to run this node: Offer only the two dispositions below. Release J-05 if trainees ask about consideration and J-07 if they ask about a commercial alternative; answer other relevant GFP-business-case questions orally. Trainees must ultimately allow or disallow incorporation of the 713 LRS REX-45 into the task order.

J1Weak

Allow Diamond Dogs' request and incorporate the 713 LRS REX-45 into the task order as Government-furnished property.

Available when
Initially available; trainees should request and evaluate the supporting business-case records before committing
Trainer line
“Even a bilateral, fully priced modification with ordinary GFP controls cannot satisfy the threshold facts here: a commercial replacement is available the next day, the REX-45 is the Government's only forklift of this capacity, administrative cost and mission risk remain substantial despite the full $68,000 equipment-value credit, and Government requirements can otherwise be met. In the modeled consequence, the REX-45 suffers hydraulic and mast damage while moving a barrier boulder just as 713 LRS needs it for strategic cargo. The Government must rent emergency replacement equipment, and recovery is complicated by disputed condition, causation, and GFP liability—precisely the unnecessary exposure FAR 45.102(b) is meant to prevent.”
Leads next
Record the unsupported GFP decision and its damage, mission-disruption, emergency-rental, and liability consequences within [J]; no later event follows.
J2Strong

Disallow the GFP request and require Diamond Dogs to furnish the commercially available replacement equipment required by its task order.

Available when
Initially available; strongest after J-05, J-07, the oral trainer facts, and the trainer insert confirm the intended facts
Trainer line
“This follows FAR 45.102(a) and (b) and DFARS PGI 245.103-70. Removing the full $68,000 equipment value strengthens the proposed benefit, but it does not overcome the available commercial alternative, the lack of necessity, the administration burden, or the substantial increase in Government mission and property risk.”
Leads next
Document the business-case rationale, keep the contractor-furnished-equipment requirement unchanged, and close the issue within [J].