Attachment 0009 - Contract Quality Requirements.docx

CONTRACT QUALITY REQUIREMENTS

1.) GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT QA ACTIONS: INSPECTION

Government Procurement Quality Assurance (PQA) actions will be accomplished by the Government Quality Assurance Representative (QAR) at: Contractor's Plant

2.) GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT QA ACTIONS: ACCEPTANCE

Acceptance of supplies will be at: Contractor's Plant

The Government's acceptance of FATR (if required) will be at: N/A

NOTE: Inspection AND Acceptance shall primarily be at Contractor Facility and Destination respectively, however, there will be instances where Inspection and Acceptance will be at Contractor's Facility depending on the item and customer. These will be delineated further with each order.

3.) QUALITY POST AWARD CONFERENCE

Post Award Conference (definition) - A first meeting of key Contractor/Government players. This conference is to assure a clear and mutual understanding of the contract between the Government and contractor. The Post Award conference includes discussions on contract terms, conditions and requirements, line items and sequence of events needed for successful execution of the subject contract effort.

The contractor shall host a post award conference/meeting at the contractor’s facility to include contractor and government contracting, management, quality assurance and technical personnel no later than 60 calendar days after contract award. The contractor shall participate with the government to arrange a schedule and agenda for the post award conference prior to the meeting. The contractor shall provide the government with minutes of the post award meeting (DI-ADMN-81250 tailored).

Note: The Governmenr shall allow virtual meeting in lieu of in person meeting.

4.) DESTRUCTIVE TESTING

a. All costs for destructive testing by the Contractor and items destroyed by the Government are considered as being included in the contract unit price.

b. Where destructive testing of items or components thereof is required by contract or specification, the number of items or components required to be destructively tested, whether destructively tested or not, shall be in addition to the quantity to be delivered to the Government as set forth in the Contract Schedule.

c. All pieces of the complete First Article shall be considered as destructively tested items unless specifically exempted by other provisions of this contract.

d. The Contractor shall not reuse any components from items used in a destructive test during First Article, lot acceptance or inprocess testing, unless specifically authorized by the Contracting Officer.

e. The Government reserves the right to take title to all or any items or components described above. The Government may take title to all or any items or components upon notice to the Contractor. The items or components of items to which the Government takes title shall be shipped in accordance with the Contracting Officer's instructions. Those items and components to which the Government does not obtain title shall be rendered inoperable and disposed of as scrap by the Contractor.

Note: Destructive Testing - Reference PdD SAWS General Specification and SOW related to Lot Acceptance Testing (LAT).

5.) PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION TESTING (CONTRACTOR FACILITY)

a. Subsequent to completion of both contractor and Government inspection/verification actions, a test sample consisting of (Per PD SAWS General Specifications) shall be selected for applicable testing.

b. The test shall be conducted at the contractor's facility. A copy of the contractor's inspection/test results shall be provided with the test sample. The contractor shall notify the Contracting Officer in writing at least 15 calendar days prior to initiation of the (each) test. The contractor shall also provide a copy of such notification to Contracting Officer and to the QAR.

c. The test sample shall be examined and/or tested in accordance with PD SAWS General Specification as applicable..

d. Within 60 days after completion of the test, the Contracting Officer (or designated representative) shall provide notification to the Contractor as to the approval, disapproval, or conditional approval of the performance verification test. Unless authorized by the Contracting Officer, the lot from which the test sample was taken shall not be shipped from the Contractor's facility, nor shall final acceptance of the lot be made, until such time as notification has been provided by the Contracting Officer that the Performance Verification Test samples have been approved/conditionally approved.

e. If the Contracting Officer does not provide notification of the approval, conditional approval, or disapproval of the performance Verification Test sample within the time specified above, the Contracting Officer shall, if applicable, equitably adjust the delivery/performance dates and/or contract price (and any other contractual provision affected by such delay) in accordance with the procedures provided in the Changes clause of this contract.

f. If any test sample fails to meet any applicable contractual requirement, the lot or batch from which the test sample was drawn shall be considered to be rejected. The contractor shall take immediate corrective action, both to correct the deficiency/nonconformance and to prevent recurrence of the deficiency/nonconformance. Such corrective action shall be taken by the contractor at no increase in contract price. Such corrective action shall apply to all items (to include basic issue items and/or repair parts) either in-process of final assembly, which have been produced or are in production since the last successful Performance Verification Test. In addition, the provisions of any warranty clause contained in the contract shall apply. Upon completion of the corrective action, the contractor shall resubmit a sample for Performance Verification testing. Any and all costs associated with testing the additional Performance Verification Test sample shall be borne by the contractor. The Contracting Officer shall equitably adjust the contract price as applicable for the costs associated with the additional testing resulting from failure of the test sample to meet the applicable contractual requirements.

g. If the contractor fails to deliver any Performance Verification test sample within the time specified, or if the test sample is disapproved and an acceptable replacement is not provided within the time specified, the contractor shall be deemed to have failed to make delivery within the meaning of the Default clause of this contract.

h. Unless otherwise specified, the initial production/ confirmatory test units shall be considered to be destructively tested. At the Contracting Officer's discretion, the initial production/confirmatory test units, and any unused repair parts, may be returned to the contractor for refurbishing, and may subsequently be shipped as deliverable items under the terms of the contract. Any refurbished test units shall meet all contract requirements; inspection and acceptance of any refurbished test units shall be conducted in accordance with contract requirements. Any costs to refurbish the test units shall be subject to negotiation between the contracting Officer and the contractor.

NOTE: Performance Verification Testing (Contractor) which is in reference to Lot Acceptance Testing (LAT) are required per Statement of Work (SOW) and PdD SAWS General Specification. Sixty (60) days advance notification is required to be provided to the USG and Non-Standard Ammunition Office. SFAE-AMO-MASNSA,Bldg 354, Picatinny NJ 07806-5000.