Exhibit 3 QASP IRES2.docx

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PERFORMANCE-BASED QUALITY ASSURANCE SURVEILLANCE PLAN (QASP) FOR

Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC) {Removal or Remedial Phase} {Site Name}

1. INTRODUCTION

This Performance-Based Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP) has been developed pursuant to the requirements of the Performance Work Statement (PWS) for Contract No. XXXXX, Task Order No. XXXX. This plan sets forth procedures and guidelines that the USACE will use in evaluating the technical and safety performance of the Contractor. A copy of the Performance Metrics is furnished in the PWS so that the Contractor will be aware of the methods that the Government will employ in evaluating their performance on this contract.

2. PURPOSE OF THE QASP

The QASP is intended to accomplish the following:

a. Define the roles and responsibilities of participating Government officials;

b. Define the types of work to be performed with required end results;

c. Document the evaluation methods that will be employed by the Government in assessing the Contractor’s performance;

d. Provide the Surveillance Activity Checklists and Corrective Action Request (CAR) forms that will be used by the Government in documenting and evaluating the Contractor’s performance; and

e. Describe the process of performance documentation.

f. Outline quality assurance procedures to be employed by the Government during performance of this task order to confirm that the site characterization is conducted utilizing proper procedures and in accordance with the approved work and safety plans.

3. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF PARTICIPATING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

The USACE Project Manager (--------------------------):

· Responsible for overall project direction, including technical, contracting and customer-related issues.

· Reviews vouchers and make recommendations to the Contracting Officer for payment action based on completion of designated milestones.

· Reports problems or discrepancies to the Contracting Officer as soon as possible.

· Oversees the implementation of the QASP.

· Reviews contractor submittals.

· Schedules and provides labor codes and funding for all surveillance activities with the appropriate USACE Supervisor (OE Safety Group, Geotechnical Branch, etc.)

· Initiates periodic contractor evaluations in the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS).

The USACE Technical Manager (---------------------------):

· Participates in preparation of SOW/PWS to ensure that Technical requirements are adequately addressed.

· Participates in proposal review.

· Coordinates reviews of contractor submittals for compliance with contract requirements.

· Coordinates reviews of contractor submittals for compliance with DOD, DA and USACE explosives and CWM safety requirements.

· Coordinates Periodic Inspections of contractor compliance with DOD, DA, and USACE explosives and CWM safety requirements and explosives/CWM related procedures described in the work plan.

· Conducts or Supports other surveillance activities as required by the project team.

· Supports all on-site QA activities.

· Develops the final Quality Assurance Report.

The USACE Contract Specialist (----------------------------):

· Monitors contract performance.

· Maintains central repository for all QA tasks required for payment.

· Issues all acceptance/rejection statements.

The USACE OE Safety Specialist (------------------------):

· Participates in preparation of SOW/PWS to ensure that Occupational Health and Safety requirements are adequately addressed.

· Participates in preparation of SOW/PWS to ensure that Explosive Safety guidance requirements are adequately addressed.

· Conducts reviews of contractor submittals for compliance with DOD, DA and USACE explosives safety requirements.

· Performs periodic inspections of contractor compliance with DOD, DA, and USACE explosives safety requirements and explosives-related procedures described in the work plan.

· Makes unscheduled, periodic site visits as part of the Government surveillance.

· Conducts or Supports other surveillance activities as required by the project team.

· Supports all on-site QA activities.

The USACE Safety Office (------------------------):

· Participates in preparation of SOW/PWS to ensure that Safety requirements are adequately addressed.

· Conducts reviews of contractor submittals for compliance with DOD, DA and USACE, and OSHA safety and health requirements.

· Coordinates with USACE team members to perform periodic inspections of contractor compliance with accepted Accident Prevention Plan, EM 385-1-1, and other DA requirements.

· Makes unscheduled, periodic site visits as part of the Government surveillance.

The USACE Geophysicist (------------------------------)

· Participates in preparation of SOW/PWS to ensure that Geophysical Investigation requirements are adequately addressed.

· Participates in proposal review to evaluate geophysical tasks.

· Reviews contractor submittals (documents and data) for compliance with contract requirements.

· Coordinates with USACE team members to perform periodic inspections of contractor's compliance with approved plans and performance requirements.

· Reviews Contractor’s QC documentation to ensure accuracy and final Government acceptance.

· Conducts surveillance activities as described in Attachment A and others as required by the project team.

· Verification of anomaly selection criteria and /or existing site condition assumptions.

The USACE Chemist (----------------------------)

· Participates in preparation of SOW/PWS to ensure that MC requirements are adequately addressed.

· Participates in proposal review to evaluate Environmental Sampling and Chemical Analysis tasks.

· Reviews the work plan for compliance with standard protocols for Environmental Sampling and Chemical Analysis.

· Conducts reviews of Environmental Sampling and Chemical Analysis Data.

· Conducts random site inspections of contractor compliance with environmental sampling requirements of the work plan. This includes ensuring that the contractor is utilizing appropriate sampling techniques, collecting the quantity of primary and QA/QC samples as stated in the work plan and completing the COC correctly with the approved analytical methodology.

· Reviews QCP reporting requirements and accepts reported QC measures.

The USACE GIS team member (------------------------------)

· Participates in preparation of SOW/PWS to ensure that GIS requirements are adequately addressed.

· Reviews contractor's Geospatial Information and Electronic submittals.

· Reviews QCP reporting requirements and accepts reported QC measures

The USACE MM-CX (------------------------------)

· Reviews Explosives Siting Plan (ESP).

· Provides DRU approval for the ESP.

· Submits ESP to US Army Technical Center for Explosives Safety (USATCES) for review, Department of the Army approval, and submission to the DoD Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) for their review and approval.

· Coordinates resolution of USATCES and DDESB comments on ESP.

The USACE Risk Assessor team member (--------------------------------)

· Participates in preparation of SOW/PWS to ensure that risk assessment requirements are adequately addressed.

· Participates in proposal review to evaluate risk assessment-related tasks.

· Participates in TPP meetings, as appropriate.

· Evaluates screening levels for environmental media

· Reviews the work plan to ensure that planned effort will support the level of risk assessment intended.

· Conducts reviews of human health and ecological risk assessments.

· Reviews QCP reporting requirements and accepts reported QC measures/standards.

· Reviews reports containing risk assessments, to include decision-making regarding results of risk assessments

4. METHODOLOGIES TO BE USED TO MONITOR THE CONTRACTOR’S PERFORMANCE

Even though the Government, through its COR, will be monitoring the contractor’s performance on a continuing basis, the volume of tasks performed by the contractor makes technical inspections of every task and step impractical. Accordingly, USACE will use the Surveillance Activity Table (Attachment A) as the basis for monitoring the contractor’s performance under this contract. The contractor’s performance will be evaluated by the Contracting Officer using the Performance Metrics for CPARS provided as in this PWS.

Quality Assurance Surveillance Activities In general, the work will be evaluated in terms of how well the requirements of the task order are satisfied, the extent to which the work performed follows the approach found in the contractor’s technical proposal, clarity of documentation, and timeliness of scheduled task accomplishment. At the discretion of the COR or the Contracting Officer or Specialist, other government officials approved by the Contracting Officer or Specialist may be asked to evaluate a particular deliverable or set of deliverables. Quality Assurance included but is not limited to the following:

QC documentation must be generated IAW a documented QCP and the Performance Requirements Tables, as specified in the PWS. All such documentation will be reviewed as part of this QASP.

In the event a requirement is not met and the contractor submits the data to the Government, the contractor shall provide rationales for accepting them. All such rationales will be reviewed as part of this QASP. If the rationales are either insufficient or technically unfeasible, or are attempts to justify non-conformances that should be corrected to meet project needs, the submittal(s) will be rejected. Non-conformances identified as part of this QASP will result in the entire lot being returned to the Contractor and require all necessary correction(s) be performed to meet requirements. The Government will issue a CAR to the contractor to document this action.

{Instructions: Additional QA of QC item shall be added to the Surveillance Activity Table and checklists shall be developed as needed to address all aspects of QC.}

Quality Assurance for Technical Management The QA Surveillance Activities for Technical Management are based on the following:

1) Data packages, including all associated QC documentation, e.g. Checklists, QC Checks, Field notes, Daily reports, Field Work Record Forms provided to the Government periodically upon request.

2) Periodic on-site inspections

Quality Assurance for Geophysics The Quality Assurance Surveillance Activities for Geophysics are based on the following:

3) Data packages, including all associated QC documentation, are submitted to the Government in lots and IAW DID WERS-004.01. The Contractor shall propose the lot size and criteria for designation (i.e. woods vs. open, GPS vs RTS vs line and fiducial, array vs man-portable, etc.) for Government concurrence.

4) Periodic site visits to assess field work compliance with the WP.

Quality Assurance for Geospatial Data The Quality Assurance Surveillance Activities for Geospatial Data are based on the following:

1) Data packages, including all associated QC documentation, are submitted to the Government in lots and IAW DID WERS-007.01.

Quality Assurance for Chemistry The Quality Assurance Surveillance Activities for Chemistry are based on the following:

1) Data packages, including all associated QC documentation, are submitted to the Government in lots and IAW DID WERS-009.01.

2) Periodic site visits to assess field work compliance with the WP.

Quality Assurance for On-Site Safety/Operations QA The Quality Assurance Surveillance Activities for On-Site Safety/Operations QA are based on the following:

1) Occupational health and safety guidance

2) Explosive safety guidance

3) On-Site Safety Inspections

4) Review of QC documents retained on site during field activities

5) On-Site operations inspections to assess field work compliance with the WP/APP.

6) QA checks as requested by PM or government PDT members

{Dependent upon the complexity of the site the System Safety Office may perform a site inspection. Consult your PM on whether this is needed at your site.}

Quality Assurance for Safety Office/Operations QA The Quality Assurance Surveillance Activities for Site Safety/Operations QA are based on the following:

1) Occupational health and safety guidance

2) Periodic site visits to assess field work compliance with the WP/APP.

5. QUALITY ASSURANCE REPORTING FORMS

The forms used to document surveillance activities include Daily Quality Assurance Report (Attachment B), HNC Form 948, Form 7, Memorandum for Record, and Quality Assurance Forms (Attachment D). Nonconformance will be documented on a Corrective Action Request (CAR), see Attachment C. Non-conformances are documented at the discretion of the person conducting the surveillance activity, but should be fair and reasonable. Each CAR will be annotated as a Critical nonconformance, Major nonconformance, or Minor nonconformance. CARs will be provided to the Contracting Officer for distribution to the contractor. The contractor will be required to correct explosives safety issues immediately. All other CARs will provide a reasonable suspense date for the contractor to review and take appropriate action, usually 15 calendar days. The contractor is required to provide written responses to all CARs.

Completed forms will be consolidated and provided to the Contracting Officer at the end of each month for that month's surveillance activities. These forms, when completed, will document the contractor's compliance with contract requirements and completion of milestone activities. The Contracting Officer will evaluate contractor performance using the definitions contained in the CPARS and the metrics identified in this PWS.

6. ATTACHMENTS

Attachment A - Surveillance Activity Table (Excel file provided separately)

Attachment B - Daily QA Report (Included in this document)

Attachment C - Corrective Action Request (Included in this document)

Attachment D - Quality Assurance Forms (Excel file provided separately)

{Label unused attachments as Not Used if site specific project does not need a specific checklist, ex. your project is not performing sampling and analysis then change D-6 Chemistry Quality Assurance Form (Data Submittal)to D-6 Not Used}

D-1 Digital Geophysical Mapping Quality Assurance Form (Data Submittal)

D-2 Digital Geophysical Mapping Quality Assurance Form

D-3 Digital Geospatial Data/Electronic Submittal Quality Assurance Form

D-4 Geospatial Quality Assurance Form (Data Submittal)

D-5 On-Site Safety/Operations QA

D-6 Chemistry Quality Assurance Form (Data Submittal)

D-7 Analog Geophysics Quality Assurance Form (Anomaly Resolution)

D-8 Analog Geophysics Quality Assurance Form (Data Submittal)

D-9 AGC Dynamic Data QA Form (Data Submittal)

D-10 AGC Cued Data QA Form (Data Submittal)

D-11 Classification Intrusive QA Form

D-12 Marine Digital Geophysical Mapping Quality Assurance Form (Data Submittal)

D-13 Marine Data Quality Assurance Form (Data Submittal)

(Additional QA Forms shall be developed as needed)

Attachment E - Final Quality Assurance Report (Included in this document)

Attachment B Daily QA Report

USACE ORDNANCE AND EXPLOSIVE PROJECT

DAILY QUALITY ASSURANCE REPORT

CONTRACT WITH DELIVERY ORDER: XXXXXXXX, Task Order # XX, Contractor

SITE:

WEATHER:

USACE PROJECT TEAM MEMBER & TITLE: i.e., Joe Smith OE Safety Specialist, Jill Jones, USACE Project geophysicist, etc.

GRIDS COMPLETED BY CONTRACTOR:

SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITY or ACTIVITIES:

GRIDS THAT PASSED GOVERNMENT QA:

CORRECTIVE ACTION REQUESTS (CAR) and/or Form 948 ISSUED:

CONTRACTOR KEY PERSONNEL ON-SITE:

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS:

LESSONS LEARNED:

DISTRIBUTION:

1-CEHNC-OE-CWM-DC (Project Manager)

1-CEHNC-OE-S (FILE)

1-CEHNC-ED (Project Engineer) 1-CEHNC-CT (Contract Specialist)

Attachment C Corrective Action Request

CORRECTIVE ACTION REQUEST | NO. (1,2,3, etc.for the T.O.)

USACE Representative:

Date Issued:

Issued to:

Response Due: (Based on type of nonconformance) Contract# and T.O.

Project Name/Location:

Nonconformance Type (circle one): Critical Major Minor

Description of Condition Found:

Contractor Representative Signature (Noting that CAR Received):

(The Contractor will provide the following information to the Contracting Officer and USACE PM by the “Response Due” date above. Please contact the USACE Representative listed above if you have any questions)

Actual Cause: (Contractor will investigate and determine cause of condition reported above. Actual cause should be stated as specifically as possible)

Action Taken to Correct Condition: (Corrective Action should address root cause, not the symptom)

Action Taken to Prevent Recurrence:

Action Taken to Monitor Effectiveness of Corrective Action: (Generate data as proof. State the monitoring method put in place and who is responsible for reviewing data.)

Contractor Representative Signature/Title/Date Signed: (Form must be signed before returning)

(USACE Project Team Use Only) Review of Corrective Action:

1) Has condition improved? ___ Yes ___ No

2) Additional corrective action required? ___ Yes ___ No Comments:

Completed form provided to Contracting Officer: (Date)

Attachment E Final Quality Assurance Report

Final Quality Assurance Report For At Former XXXX Contract Number: 00000000 Task Order: 0000

1. Describe QA methods used (or reference where they are documented) and pass/fail criteria.

2. Summarize field QA activities performed and describe any special conditions encountered or special circumstances.

3. Describe any constraints or problems encountered.

4. Summarize data quality assurance activities performed and describe any special conditions encountered or special circumstances.

5. Provide list of all CEHNC 948s issued for QA failures and describe corrective actions taken.

6. List/describe lessons learned.

7. Include a final statement that contract requirements were met regarding quality of services provided.

8. Signature of Project Engineer preparing the report.

9. List supporting data/references and where they are filed.