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3.7 Workmanship. Towels shall be free of holes, tears, wrinkles, and other defects affecting appearance or serviceability. Edges shall be clean cut. Towels having a gritty, sandpapery feel shall not be acceptable.
4. REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS. In accordance with section 23.403 of the Federal Acquisition Regulations, the Government’s policy is to acquire items composed of the highest percentage of recovered materials practicable, consistent with maintaining a satisfactory level of competition without adversely affecting performance requirements or exposing supplier’s employees to undue hazards from the recovered materials.
5. QUALITY ASSURANCE.
5.1 Product Conformance. The products provided shall meet the salient characteristics of this commercial item description, conform to the producer’s own drawings, specifications, standards and quality assurance practices and be the same product offered for sale in the commercial market. The government reserves the right to require proof of such conformance.
5.2 Suppliers are encouraged to use quality control (QC) techniques that exhibit control over their processes (e.g. (Statistical Process Control) SPC techniques) as defined in American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z1.1, Z1.2 and Z1.3/ American Society for Quality Control (ASQC) B.1, B.2, and B.3 that systematically reduce excess variations. If used, objective evidence shall be available that demonstrates overall measurement adequacy techniques and controls. These techniques shall ensure quality levels equal to, or greater than, those cited in applicable technical document or, herein.
5.3 End item inspections/testing may be used by the offeror or the Government representative, as a means to determine the effectiveness of the process quality controls. In-process controls shall not be substituted for end item performance testing.
4.2.3 For those characteristics for which there are no such controls, or for end item performance test, lot by lot sampling for inspection/test shall be required. The sample unit shall be one plastic desk tray. Sampling shall be in accordance with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/ American Society for Quality Control (ASQC) Z1.4, Sampling Procedures and Tables for Inspection by Attributes.
4.2.4 An inspection lot shall consist of all like items submitted for inspection at one time. The inspection level for visual and dimensional sampling shall be S-3 with and AQL of 4.0 percent defective. The lot size shall for visual/dimensional characteristics shall be expressed in units of towels, with the sample unit being one towel. The inspection level for performance characteristics shall be S-1 with an Acceptable Quality Level (AQL) of 4.0 percent defective. The lot size for performance characteristics shall be expressed in units of packages, with the sample unit being one package. The supplier must provide objective evidence (test and inspection records) that the presented material meets the requirements of the sampling plan as indicated below.
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