Common use of DOCUMENTATION AND DATA MANAGEMENT Clause in Contracts

DOCUMENTATION AND DATA MANAGEMENT. The Contractor shall establish and maintain a centralised documentation system to ensure that all aspects of the Inmarsat-4 programme are adequately recorded and available for access, including as a minimum all Inmarsat-4 programme documents, drawings and test data. The Contractor shall provide the same access and information updates to the Inmarsat team as those provided to the Contractor’s programme staff. This documentation system may be implemented as an electronic paperless system provided that the unrestricted access requirements can be met. After completion of the contract, the Contractor shall continue to provide timely access to all documentation and data which may be needed for in-orbit operations (including the detailed spacecraft configuration) to facilitate any anomaly investigation. The Contractor shall describe its documentation and data control system in the Configuration and Data Management (CADM) plan to be included in the Programme Management Plan. This CADM Plan shall include detailed descriptions of: (a) the document or data identification systems to be used. (b) the proposed configuration management system. (c) the means by which Inmarsat would gain access and copies of documents or data relating to work performed under the contract, and (d) the long term retention plan, which should ensure accessibility over the entire mission life for the spacecraft constellation.