Design-Builder’s Quality Program Elements and Requirements Sample Clauses

Design-Builder’s Quality Program Elements and Requirements. 1. The Design-Builder Quality Program (CQP), to be provided by Design-Builder, must include the items listed below. Design-Builder must submit its Design-Builder Quality Plan to the Commission Representative for review. 2. Management Responsibility (Responsibility, Accountability, Authority, Organizational, and Technical Interfaces) General quality control activities. a. The CQP must declare and document the commitment to quality by the Design-Builder's executive management. This document is provided as a DRAFT and is not intended to be considered FINAL. The Commission explicitly reserves the right to modify this document and provide a revised Sample to Phase II Proposers. b. The CQP must contain an organization chart illustrating lines of authority and the interrelationship of those responsible for executive management, project management, and quality functions. It must describe the quality organization in detail and identify personnel responsible for: initiating action to prevent quality problems, identifying and recording quality problems, initiating solutions, and verifying implementation of solutions to quality. It must include the resumes of key personnel for Commission review. c. The Design-Builder must assign a Quality Representative (QR) to this project who will implement and administer the CQP and have the authority to act in all quality matters for the Design-Builder. The QR must be qualified for the position by education, training, and experience. Qualification must be demonstrated by a description of education, training, and previous quality assignments, with related duties and responsibilities, for a period sufficient to establish the appointee's quality management experience. SAMPLE d. The Design-Builder must maintain a staff of sufficient size and composition under the direction of the QR to perform all Design-Builder quality control and activities in order to ensure contract compliance whether the work is performed by the Design-Builder's own staff or by Subcontractors. Personnel responsible for quality must be suitably trained and qualified for the quality activities they are assigned. The Design-Builder's quality control organization may vary as the project progresses; however, at all times it must be compatible with the level of effort and capability required by the Contract. e. Personnel responsible for quality verification must have the necessary authority and independence to perform their roles effectively; they must be independent o...