Provisions Governing Qua/ification SD-6
Government's Obligations on Availability of Data
Except as required by the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 5522, the Government will not distribute qualification data unless the Qualifying Activity obtains the consent of the manufacturer, determines that the release is in the best interest of the Government, and follows current security policies. Once release is approved, the Qualifying Activity may supply the data to other Government activities and supply the data to foreign governments that are purchasing, operating, or maintaining supplies that involve products covered.
EXTENSION OF QUALIFICATION
Qualification applies only to the product, process, or material that is manufactured at the plant that produced, examined, and tested the sample. The Qualifying Activity may, however, extend qualification to the same product or family of products produced by the same or other plants of the manufacturer when the following conditions exist:
1. Examination or test of the product of other manufacturing plants shows that the product is, in all aspects, at least equal to the initial qualified product test sample.
2. The quality control and processing at the other manufacturing plants are such that the products produced there are at least equal to the qualified product. Ordinarily, this determination will be based on inspection of the plant, its quality control system, and its processing procedures. If a facility or product line, or both, come under new ownership and management, the Qualifying Activity must reevaluate to ensure that the product or process is unchanged and that the new ownership and management can provide products of the requisite quality, reliability, and safety. The Qualifying Activity will document the evaluation and retain it in the permanent file.
Listing of Extended Qualified Products
Products to which qualification has been extended under the family of products concept are listed on the appropriate portion of the QPL in the same manner as tested products, except that the manufacturer's designations or type numbers of the successfully tested products on which the family qualification has been based will be listed in the place normally reserved for the test or qualification reference test report number.
RETENTION OF QUALIFICATION
Once a manufacturer's products or processes are qualified, the manufacturer must do the following to retain the qualification:
2 Available at www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/...2011.../USCODE-2011-title5-partI-chap5.pdf
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