scope:

To ensure that the contractors, suppliers, and vendors supplying articles, materials, or services have a quality system and/or process controls that shall assure their products meet Marshall Space Flight Center's (MSFC) specified contractual requirements. The evaluation process shall include a review and verification of the contractor, suppliers and vendors' manufacturing and/or service equipment.

APPLICABILITY. This Instruction applies to evaluation of contractors, suppliers, and vendors that shall have the capacity to supply a product or service, or have quality requirements and/or special processes imposed, or satisfy a special project requirement, within the outsourcing process at MSFC (Reference MWI 5100.3) and/or a project/program procurement deliverable to MSFC under the requirements of MPR 5000.1. The evaluation process shall also be used to support larger procurements associated with pre/post contractor/subcontractor surveys and/or for special supplier requirements associated with NASA processing using inter-Center agreements, and/or Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) between NASA/MSFC and other NASA partners. Program/project quality planning based on criticality, mission success, cost, and schedule constraints may impose limitations and depth of the evaluation during this process.