Contract review

RatL, Status of Gasificatiou Demoustratiou Plants, Froc. 2d Annu. Fuel Cells Contract Review Mtg., DOE/METC-909(y6112, p. 91. 

The standard requires the supplier to investigate and confirm the manufacturing feasibility of proposed products in contract review and to record the results of the review. 

Figure 3.1 Element relationships with the contract review element...

The standard requires firstly that the supplier establishes and maintains documented procedures for contract review. 

Contract review is but one of the tasks in the contract acquisition process. These are marketing, prospect acquisition, tendering, contract negotiation, contract award, and then contract review. However, in a sales situation, you may simply have a catalog of products and services and a sales office taking orders over the telephone or over the counter. The contract review element of this operation takes a few seconds while you determine if you can supply the item requested. In an organization that produces products to specific customer requirements you may in fact carry out all the tasks in the contract acquisition process. Rather than isolate the contract review task and produce a procedure for this, your business may benefit more from a procedure or series of procedures that covers the contract acquisition process as a whole. 

The standard specifies when contract reviews should be undertaken before submission of a tender or acceptance of a contract. However, having reviewed it once, there is an ongoing requirement for you to ensure you remain capable of satisfying the require-... 

The standard requires that the supplier establishes documented procedures for coordinating contract review activities. 

The standard requires records of contract reviews to be maintained. 

Having determined that the item is in stock and informed the customer of the price, the supplier presents the lamp together with an invoice to the customer for payment. (The invoice is the record of the contract review.)... 

Prepare a procedure for conducting formal contract reviews. 

Determine which functions in the organization should participate in contract reviews. 

Decide how you will obtain input, comment, and participation in contract reviews. 

Establish who will hold the records of contract reviews, where they will be filed, and who will have access to them. 

In what documents do you record the results of contract reviews ... 

The standard requires that design input take into consideration the results ofang contract review activities. 

Customer engineering standards and specifications are external documents. Therefore your procedure for controlling external documents should also cover these documents. Where ISO/TS 16949 differs from ISO 9001 on this topic is that ISO 9001 does not require external documents to be reviewed or implemented. However, any external document received or procured for the organization should be reviewed for its applicability before it is brought under control, otherwise resources could be wasted on controlling documents that have no practical use in the organization. This requirement could be placed under Contract rev/ew since any documents issued by customers form part of the contract and should go through contract review before acceptance and implementation. 

Do afford the same rights to your subcontractor on contract review as you wish afforded to you by your purchaser. 

Premium freight was addressed briefly in Part 2 Chapter 3 under Contract review, as it is at the contract negotiation stage that the criteria will be established as to what is premium freight. If you fail to make delivery by the planned means (the means agreed in the contract) you may have no alternative but to choose a faster way of getting the shipment to its intended destination. This may result in additional cost. It is this cost that the customer wishes you to monitor and record. 

Management review records (clause 4.1.3) Process verification records (clause 4.2.4.9.4) Contract review records (clause 4.3.4)... 

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