Production Readiness Review Checklist.xlsx
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- W911QY25RA008
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The Production Readiness Review Checklist is a comprehensive evaluation document for the Military Altimeter (MA-1) program, focusing on assessing a contractor's readiness for production through detailed quality, supply chain, manufacturing, and design assessments. The checklist covers critical areas including supply chain management (vendor qualification, ISO certification, material traceability), manufacturing processes (quality policies, inspection methods, non-conforming item handling), calibration requirements, quality management system certification, and design configuration control.
Key evaluation areas include verifying compliance with government regulations such as Berry Amendment and Buy American requirements, assessing production capabilities (equipment, labor availability, production flow), examining quality control mechanisms, and ensuring robust configuration management. The document appears to be associated with Solicitation Number W911QY25RA008 issued by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, with a question submission deadline of May 23, 2025. The checklist serves as a comprehensive pre-production assessment tool to validate a contractor's readiness to manufacture the Military Altimeter (MA-1) product.
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Sheet1
| Production Readiness Review Checklist | |||
| Date: | Final rating/notes | ||
| Contract #: | |||
| Contractor: | |||
| Location: | |||
| Cage Code: | |||
| Program: | MA-1 | ||
| Program Lead: | |||
| PCO/KO: | |||
| ACO: | |||
| DCMA SQA: | |||
| Engineer Lead: | |||
| Quality: | |||
| Question | Response/Evidence | Concern?/Rating? | |
| Supply Chain Management | |||
| Does the prime contractor push "flow down" clauses to the sub-suppliers through the PO process? | |||
| How does the contractor select or qualify vendors/suppliers? | |||
| Does the prime contractor have an approved suppliers list? | |||
| Are the major sub-suppliers ISO9001:2015 cert or equivalent? | |||
| If a sub-supplier is not ISO9001 cert what method does the Prime use to validate the sub-suppliers and their material? | |||
| What methods does the contractor use to verify incoming material is conforming? | |||
| Is there clear traceability from the items sold to the gov back through the supply chain? | |||
| Is there an incoming raw material sampling plan? | |||
| How does the contractor verify incoming material has been tested to specification? COC? | |||
| Where/how are these records maintained? | |||
| How are design changes communicated from the Gov down through Prime and to the sub-suppliers? | |||
| Diminishing Manufacturing Sources (DMS) electronic monitoring | |||
| How are nonconforming supplies identified/quarantined | |||
| Berry amendment compliant supply base? | |||
| Buy American compliant supply base? | |||
| Has the Production Process Package (PPP) and Quality Validation Plan (QVP) been submitted to the gov? | |||
| Manufacturing | |||
| Is there a Quality Policy on the manufacturing floor and visible to the work force? I.e. different location. | |||
| Are there work and inspection instructions at work stations and a method of validation? | |||
| What methods are used to record data? Hard copy/computer | |||
| If computerized does the system provide direct feedback when something is out of specification | |||
| Link - full system verification when turned on | |||
| Software verification system - level | |||
| Software AI government requirement | |||
| What in process inspections take place? Form/computerized | |||
| How is final inspection conducted? | |||
| How are non-conforming items handled | |||
| Do you have a DCMA QAR? | |||
| What is their schedule? | |||
| Has the QAR provided communication method and timeline for scheduling an inspection to meet delivery dates? | |||
| Is all equipment at the location to meet full production? If not what needs to be purchased to meet that full rate and what are the delivery dates? | |||
| Does the Government have the ramp up schedule? | |||
| Ramp labor requirement? Training Method? | |||
| Ramp material requirement? Deliver? Long lead items? | |||
| Any local labor issues that may jeopardize the delivery schedule during ramp up to full production | |||
| Are there skilled production manpower available in sufficient numbers for the planned term of production? | |||
| Is product manufacturing by batch or single flow through? | |||
| Is there a system that monitors the performance to the plan, identifies deviations, and changes as necessary? | |||
| Are sub-contractors used for any portion of production? | |||
| How are sub-contractors controlled/monitored | |||
| Computer program | |||
| RFID capabilities? | |||
| WAWF capabilities? | |||
| Any haz material that should be noted and tracked? | |||
| Any local laws - COVID, Hazard waste, etc. that may interrupt delivery dates? | |||
| Is a ERP system used for inventory control, material released to manufacturing, labor, WIP, and shipping? | |||
| Calibration | |||
| Any GFE or GFP required? | |||
| Quality Management System | |||
| Is prime ISO Certified 9001: 2015? | |||
| What is the expiration/recertification date? | |||
| What causes a CAR to be initiated? | |||
| Does the contractor have a variation reduction plan that utilizes Statistical Process Control and Design Of Experiments? | |||
| Are the internal audits performed by qualified personnel | |||
| How are configuration management/changes handled within the organization? | |||
| Configuration management is adequate to assure configuration identification, control, and status accounting during production | |||
| Design | |||
| Any knowledge sharing that came out of past evaluation during DT and OT events | |||
| Any risk to design, quality, supply chain | |||
| Any issues with meeting a First Production Lot (FPL) Inspection | |||
| Has the technical data package been signed off and accepted by the Gov for FPL and ongoing product acceptance | |||
| Is the prime contractor aware of what conditions require them to communicate with the gov regarding waivers, request for variation, Request for information? | |||
| Are there any Data rights that requires resolution to begin manufacturing | |||
| Are there any NSN required for DLA/ILSC orders | |||
| If so have these been provided | |||
| Are there any service parts required? |
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