Provisions Governing Qua/ification SD-6
6. Establish a long-term relationship with the supplier to ensure continuous conformance to requirements and continuous products quality improvements.
What Qualification Does Not Do
Inclusion of a product or a manufacturer on an electronic QPL or QML does not relieve the supplier of his contractual obligation to deliver items meeting all specification requirements. It does not guarantee acceptability under a contract. It does not waive any requirements for inspections or for maintaining quality control measures satisfactory to the Government, nor does it relieve the original equipment manufacturer of his contractual obligations to ensure that delivered items (including the qualified items used in the equipment) comply with all specification requirements.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR QUALIFICATION?
The Preparing Activity for a specification is responsible for qualification, however, the Preparing Activity can have an agent maintain the specification for them. In many cases, the Preparing Activity is also the Qualifying Activity. The Preparing Activity can establish a Qualifying Activity or agent to administer the qualification program, or perform certain elements of the qualification program. Adopted NGSs are assigned to an adopting activity, so, hereafter the term "Preparing Activity" also means the "Adopting Activity."
QUALIFICATION PROCESS MANAGEMENT
Figure 1-1, Qualification Process Management, shows the general DoD qualification process.
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