“The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is taking a deeper look to evaluate its supply chain management system, the Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support (DMLSS), which the VA adopted from the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Logistics Agency in 2019.”
“In deciding whether or not DMLSS is the best fit, VA Chief Information Officer and Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology Kurt DelBene said today that the agency is also exploring other options.”
“The VA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report in November 2021 that found failures in VA’s pilot project to deploy the DMLSS system at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (Lovell) in North Chicago, Illinois.”
“Specifically, the OIG found the DMLSS system did not meet 44 percent of the high-priority business requirements identified by Lovell staff as essential to successful operations. In other words, as Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., said during a hearing today, ‘it simply didn’t work.'”
“As a result, the VA is taking a deeper look at its supply chain modernization program, DelBene said today during a House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs hearing. DelBene has only served in his role at VA for just over a month, but said he is “excited” to improve the delivery of services to veterans…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Reevaluating its Supply Chain Management System, Looking at Other Options – By Grace Dille, February 9, 2022. MeriTalk.
