EB SPEC 2678Q Page 4 of 28
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2.0 OVERVIEW & APPLICABILITY 2.1
This specification provides the quality assurance required of suppliers providing material to Electric Boat, Huntington Ingalls Industries – Newport News Shipbuilding (HII-NNS), and our customer. These requirements are in addition to the basic quality requirements (MIL-I-45028, MIL-Q-9858A or ISO9001:2015 with Supplemental Technical Requirements) cited elsewhere in the purchase order. 2.2 Flow Down Requirement: It is the responsibility of the supplier to ensure all applicable portions of the purchase order, including those of this specification, are transmitted to all sub-tier suppliers via a purchase order or some other contractual means. 2.3 This specification applies to any material or service procured by the Purchaser. If any discrepancy, differences or conflict exist between the ordering data, the drawings and/or specifications, or if clarification or direction of how to proceed is required by the supplier, a Vendor Information Request (VIR) is to be submitted to resolve the conflict. VIRs must contain justification and technical rational as necessary. The supplier shall not proceed until the VIR is adjudicated except at their own risk. 2.4 Suppliers performing work or services in accordance with this specification shall establish and maintain an auditable Quality Management System (QMS) which complies with the invoked quality requirements to ensure the quality and adequacy of the item or service provided. In addition, the QMS will control the collection and issuance of Objective Quality Evidence (OQE) required to satisfy purchase order deliverables. The supplier shall provide the Purchaser upon request with their most recent version of their QMS and revisions that occur during performance of the contract. 2.5 Appendix A identifies the additional quality assurance requirements for Level I material. Any procurement or technical requirement that reference either ‘7010’ (NAVSEA 0948-LP-045-7010) or ‘6010’ (NAVSEA 0900-070-6010) refers to Level I material and requires the supplier to meet both the Body and Appendix A of this Specification. The supplier is not required to obtain a copy of ‘6010’ or ‘7010’. 2.6 See Appendix C for a glossary of terms used within. 3.0 OFFICIAL RECORDS 3.1 The supplier shall maintain legible Official Records necessary to demonstrate and verify achievement of the quality requirements specified in the purchase order. a) When required by the purchase order, suppliers must submit certified statements of conformance. b) Statements of conformance must be positive and unqualified and must be dated after all required OQE. NOTE: In the event OQE is corrected in order to comply with the requirements of this c) When a person, other than the one who performs the inspection or test activity, signs an official record, they must indicate for whom they are signing (e.g. J.W. Brown(signature) for D.W. Smith (printed). d) The supplier must submit Official Records with the name, title, and signature of the company representative or a company controlled stamp. 1) Authentic signatures, including initials, must include employee identification numbers, if assigned, and dated using permanent marking. 2) If the Supplier elects to use digital signatures on Official Records, the digital signature must be controlled by a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). The method of control used by the supplier must be capable of being validated by the purchaser or the Government through audit, surveillance, or inspection. See additional requirements in purchase order standard clauses, if applicable. specification and after the item’s Certificate of Conformance is issued, a new Certificate of Conformance is not required to be generated or provided.
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