| Methods | Expected Benefits |
|---|---|
| Well-Defined Management & Quality Assurance Processes | Ensures repeatability, allowing lessons learned and best practices to be shared across the organization and facilitates training. |
| Peer Reviews of Technical Effort | Comprehensive review of all technical data prior to delivery, ensuring technical quality. |
| MS Projects Detailed Task Order Management Plans and Schedules | Provides a method of coordinating work, tracking costs and progress, obtaining consensus on requirements, and completion criteria, while communicating the defined process among relevant technical staff. |
| Independent, Built-In Quality Assurance | Essential to deliver product quality and continuous improvements in cost, schedule, and ensuring user satisfaction of processes and products. |
| Defined Contract Process with Appropriate Levels of Review and Approval | Ensures a consensus on requirements and commitments, that all risk areas are routinely identified, considered, and that the process incorporates lessons learned and best practices across the organization. |
| Defined Points of Contact for Contract TO Issues | Expedites tasking and contract actions and lessens the potential risk for constructive changes or activities “out-of-scope” work. |
| TO Monthly Status Meetings & Reports | TO PMs are able to review TO actions and direct TO technical staff and provide status to the CPM for contract level reporting. |
| Regular Meetings with Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) | Allows the PM to coordinate action items and resolve contract/TO issues. Allows customer confirmation of prioritization of work and frequent status monitoring of ongoing efforts. Provides the TO PMs a forum for project tracking and oversight, resolving outstanding action items and coordinating technical approaches on multiple TOs. |
Quality Assurance
Contract: N00178-15-D-8172