The Defense Logistics Agency and Department of State have signed a 10-year, $600 million partnership agreement to unify acquisition processes across the two agencies.
The agreement, which went into effect Oct. 1, institutes governance standards for supply chains and enables the organizations to provide logistics support for over 250 embassies and consulates worldwide, DLA said Monday.
“To be able to say I want subsistence or fuel support, I don’t have to spend 90 to 180 days setting up a separate agreement with DLA Troop Support and [DLA] Energy,” Marc Gage, DLA’s liaison to the State Department, said in a statement published Monday.
“All I have to do is set up the payment, which can be accomplished in as little as 24 hours,” he added.
Kristin French, deputy director of logistics operations at DLA, and Seth Green, deputy assistant secretary of state for logistics management, signed the agreement on Oct. 7 at the State Department’s Office of Logistics Management in Rosslyn, Virginia.
Gage noted that the agreement could assist the State Department in its contingency planning efforts and provide the agency with logistics support in areas where it may be difficult to get subsistence or fuel.