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Standard Bus Procurement Guidelines
3.2 INSPECTIONS
3.2.1 INSPECTION STATIONS
Inspection stations shall be at the best locations to provide for the work content and characteristics to
be inspected. Stations shall provide the facilities and equipment to inspect structural, electrical,
hydraulic, and other components and assemblies for compliance with the design requirements.
Stations shall also be at the best locations to inspect or test characteristics before they are concealed
by subsequent fabrication or assembly operations. These locations shall minimally include
underbody structure completion, body framing completion, body prior to paint preparation, water test
before interior trim and insulation installation, engine installation completion, underbody dress-up
and completion, bus prior to final paint touchup, bus prior to road test, and bus final road test
completion.
3.2.2 RESIDENT INSPECTOR
3.2.2.1 RESIDENT INSPECTOR ROLE
The Procuring Agency shall be represented at the Contractor's plant by resident inspectors. They
shall monitor, in the Contractor's plant, the manufacture of transit buses built under the procurement.
The presence of these resident inspectors in the plant shall not relieve the Contractor of its
responsibility to meet all of the requirements of this procurement. The Procuring Agency shall
designate a primary resident inspector, whose duties and responsibilities are delineated in "Pre-
Production Meetings" (Section 4.2.2.2); "Authority" (Section 4.2.2.3); and "Pre-Delivery Tests"
(Section 4.3.2). Contractor and resident inspector relations shall be governed by the guidelines
included as Attachment A to this Part 4. "Quality Assurance" Provisions.
3.2.2.2 PRE-PRODUCTION MEETINGS
The primary resident inspector shall participate in design review and pre-production meetings with
the Procuring Agency. At these meetings the configuration of the buses and the manufacturing
processes shall be finalized, and all contract documentation provided to the inspector.
No less than 30 (thirty) days prior to the beginning of bus manufacture, the primary resident inspector
shall meet with the Contractor's quality assurance manager and shall conduct a pre-production audit
meeting. They shall review the inspection procedures and finalize inspection checklists. The
resident inspectors may begin monitoring bus construction activities two weeks prior to the start of
bus fabrication.
3.2.2.3 AUTHORITY
Records and data maintained by the quality assurance organization shall be available for review by
the resident inspectors. Inspection and test records for this procurement shall be available for a
minimum of one year after inspections and tests are completed.
Quality Assurance Provisions 102 10/18/07