Quality Control on Federal Construction Projects (1987) / Chapter Skim
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'DEFINITION OF TERMS'
'DEFINITION OF TERMS'
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• Contractor Quality Control (CQC) -- The construction contractor's system to manage and control and document its own, its supplier's and its subcontractor's activities to comply with contract requirements.
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These documents reflect the latest safety codes, recent technology developments, and the VAs past experience in hospital construction and operation. • Quality Assurance -- The VA visually verifies the contractor's conformance with the specified construction contract documents, while simultaneously being alert for conditions which may warrant a change to ensure the quality, quantity, and propriety of the final product.
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reported that it has not formally defined the terms quality control and quality assurance as they pertain to construction. However, PHS has defined the term construction surveillance as follows in terms of the objectives of surveillance and the techniques used: Objectives -- to assure that all construction projects proceed on the approved schedule and any variations in either time, design or cost are monitored and appropriate changes are approved according to HHS/PHS policy.
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Although the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) does not define the terms quality control or quality assurance per se, the FAR does define various other terms related to quality assurance, including the following: • Contract quality requirements -- means the technical requirements in the contract relating to the quality of the product or service and those contract clauses describing inspection, and other quality controls incumbent on the contractor, to assure that the product or service conforms to the contractual requirements.
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• Inspection -- means examining and testing supplies or services (including, when appropriate, raw materials, components, and intermediate assemblies) to determine whether they conform to contract requirements.
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