[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR46]

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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 46_QUALITY ASSURANCE--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart 46.2_Contract Quality Requirements
 
Sec.  46.202-4  Higher-level contract quality requirements.

    (a) Requiring compliance with higher-level quality standards is 
appropriate in solicitations and contracts for complex or critical items 
(see 46.203(b) and (c)) or when the technical requirements of the 
contract require--
    (1) Control of such things as work operations, in-process controls, 
and inspection; or
    (2) Attention to such factors as organization, planning, work 
instructions, documentation control, and advanced metrology.
    (b) When the contracting officer, in consultation with technical 
personnel, finds it is in the Government's interest to require that 
higher-level quality standards be maintained, the contracting officer 
shall use the clause prescribed at 46.311. The contracting fficer shall 
indicate in the clause which higher-level quality standards will satisfy 
the Government's requirement. Examples of higher-level quality standards 
are ISO 9001, 9002, or 9003; ANSI/ISO/ASQ Q9001-2000; ANSI/ASQC Q9001, 
Q9002, or Q9003; QS-9000; AS-9000; ANSI/ASQC E4; and ANSI/ASME NQA-1.

[63 FR 70289, Dec. 18, 1998, as amended at 67 FR 6120, Feb. 8, 2002]