Cardinal Supplyline

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support gathers and manages a central repository of Medical-Surgical including War Readiness products to support the War Fighter. The Medical-Surgical product data management and data quality management is a challenge due to the constant change that occurs to the key product data elements that identifies the product. There is a need for the standardized product information to be able to identify the product throughout the DoD Supply Chain and to be able to find alternate products, group clinically equivalent products to assist the consumers in procuring the product and assist in deriving the procurement patterns.

This requirements is established for the following purpose,  receive standardized key product data elements Manufacturer/Supplier Name and Manufacturer/Supplier Part Number product classification to group the products into functional groups and to identify clinically equivalent products.

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support will submit the Medical-Surgical products to the contractor and the contractor will provide the standardized key data elements and classifications (Group clinically equivalent products etc.) within the agreed upon time.