This is a complex contract for the purchase of specific materials, with stringent quality, inspection, and certification requirements. The contract involves special emphasis material, requiring traceability, chemical and mechanical analysis, and specific welding procedures. The delivery schedule includes submission of certification data 20 days prior to delivery, review and acceptance of certification data 6 days after receipt, and final delivery within 365 days of the contract effective date. The contract also specifies requirements for government source inspection, and handling of government-furnished material. The contract includes detailed requirements for material traceability, marking, and certification. The contract also specifies requirements for handling of government-furnished material, including visual examination, inspection for completeness, verification of material quality, periodic inspection, functional testing,
identification and protection from improper use, and reporting of damaged or malfunctioning material. The contract also specifies requirements for material traceability, marking, and certification. The contract also specifies requirements for material handling, including traceability markings, segregation of raw materials, and recording of markings removed during manufacturing. The contract also specifies requirements for receiving inspection, discrepancy reporting, and final inspection. The contract also specifies requirements for welding procedures and qualification data, including approval of qualification data prior to welding, and submission of all certification documentation for subcontracted welding. The contract also specifies requirements for the use of the ECDS electronic contractor data submission system for certain data submissions, questions, clarifications, and waiver requests. The contract also specifies preservation, packaging, packing, and marking requirements. The contract also specifies definitions of critical safety items, critical processes, first article pre-production models, first article test, government source inspection, quality assurance letter of instruction, objective quality evidence, surface discontinuity, traceability code, verification, nonconformance, waiver, deviation, critical waiver deviation, major waiver deviation, minor waiver deviation, engineering change, engineering change proposal, class I ECP, class II ECP, and distribution statement. The contract also specifies ordering information for documents, including cancelled documents, commercial specifications, ordnance standards, nuclear reactor publications, technical manuals, interim changes, and classified specifications. Finally, the contract includes recent updates to the technical requirements, including changes to the ECDS URL, removal of waiver/deviation submission requirements in ECDS, and addition of wawf for forwarding approved waivers/deviations with final OQE.