Is British concept to "contract for availability" an idea for BASOPS?

Based on Britain's Defence (it's spelled "defence" there) Industrial Strategy, procurement is taking a real turn for performance based contracting. In their strategic document, they state that

(they) also recognise that the bedrock of (their)procurement policy has to be long-term value for money.

This is a principle that we in U.S. federal procurement also believe in.

In fact, they are taking this to great lengths by contracting for aircraft availability, rather than for spare parts or maintenance. The outcome contracted for, then, is having each aircraft available to fly missions.

They call it "through-life support" or lifetime support. They are using it to improve their industrial capabilities. Perhaps, that is a practice we could employ with our vehicle maintenance practices- oh that's right, AMC will be taking that over. How about some of our other recurring contracts.

Let's think about how that might work out by improving our installation capabilities, as well.