As prescribed in 46.401-90 insert the following clause:
IDENTIFICATION OF QUALIFIED LABORATORY AND SOURCE SAMPLING (APR 2008) - DLAD
(a) The offeror or bidder shall indicate in paragraph (e) below the name and address of the laboratory or laboratories where components or end items will be tested during the course of any resultant contract. Any laboratory proposed by the contractor is subject to the approval of the contracting officer.
(b) The Government QAR will cut samples from a lot at the textile component source and send them for testing to the Laboratory cited below. (The acceptability of each lot will be determined through the testing of these samples). In addition, the QAR will simultaneously cut samples from the same rolls of material and send them to the DSCP laboratory when advised by the DSCP textile technologist to do so. For end items, duplicate samples will be drawn. Source sampling procedures are detailed further in DSCP Manual, Quality Systems Requirements, 4155.3, which is incorporated by reference.
(c) The prime contractor will notify the DSCP textile technologist (______________________at (215) 737-_______) in writing at least ten days in advance when lots are to be presented to allow Government witnessing of testing at the contractor’s laboratory. If the Government intends to witness testing, a representative from the DSCP laboratory will notify the contractor’s laboratory. In the absence of Government notification, testing should proceed as scheduled.
(d) Should the contracting officer withdraw approval of the laboratory proposed by the contractor during the course of a contract, DSCP will perform the required testing for up to 30 calendar days from the date of approval withdrawal. The charge for testing will be the DSCP laboratory’s effective cost rate on the date of testing. The contractor is responsible for securing the services of another laboratory during this period.
(e) Any change in the laboratory (or laboratories) specified below is prohibited unless approved in advance by the contracting officer.
Name and Address of Laboratory
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Component Identity*
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Name and Address of Component Source
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Name and Address of Laboratory
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Component Identity*
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Test Characteristics
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(f) It is solely the prime contractor's responsibility to schedule laboratory testing and to obtain test reports. The cost of laboratory testing shall also be borne by the prime contractor.
(g) Shipments of component materials to the prime contractor need not be deferred pending test results except when shade approval is required (see paragraph (h)). Cutting production lots without a passing laboratory test report on the corresponding samples is done at the contractor's own risk.
(h) Shade evaluation is acceptance testing. Therefore, component lots may not be shipped to the prime contractor until the DSCP laboratory accepts the shade of the material.
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