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Seller Response and Quality Assurance
By Raymond Keckler | December 2, 2007
Requesting seller responses
Inputs
- Organizational process assets
- Procurement management plan
- Procurement documents
Tools and techniques
- Bidder conferences
- Meetings with prospective vendors or sellers that occur prior to the completion of the response proposal. Used for venders to ask questions and clarify issues.
- Advertising
- Develop qualified sellers list
- List of prospective sellers who have been preapproved or prequalified to provide contract services.
Outputs
- Qualified sellers list
- Procurement document package
- Proposals
Request seller response obtains bids and proposals. Select sellers is the receipt of bids and proposals and evaluating each.
Selecting sellers
Inputs
- Organizational process assets
- Procurement management plan
- Evaluation criteria
- Procurement document package
- Proposals
- Qualified sellers list
- Project management plan (risk register and risk-related contractual agreements)
Tools and techniques
- Weighting systems
- Independent estimates
- Screening systems
- Contract negotiation
- Seller rating systems
- Expert judgment
- Proposal evaluation techniques
Outputs
- Selected sellers
- Contract
- Legally binding agreement between two more parties.
- Contract life cycle
- Requirement
- Requisition
- Solicitation
- Award
- Contract management plan
- Describes the contract administrative activities. Outlines how the contract will be administered based on the SOW.
- Resource availability
- Project management plan updates
- Requested changes
Perform quality assurance
Inputs
- Quality management plan
- Quality metrics
- Process improvement plan
- Work performance information
- Approved change requests
- Quality control measurements
- Implemented change requests
- Implemented corrective actions
- Implemented defect repair
- Implemented preventive actions
Perform quality assurance makes certain the project satisfies the quality standards laid out in the project management plan.
Tools and techniques
- Quality planning tools and techniques
- Quality audits
- Independent reviews performed by trained auditors or third party reviewers. It identifies ineffective and inefficient processes use on the project.
- Process analysis
- This follows the steps in the process improvement plan and examines problems experienced while conducting the project, constraints of the project, and inefficient and ineffective processes
- A technique is root cause analysis.
- Quality control tools and techniques
Outputs
- Requested changes
- Recommended corrective actions
- Organizational process assets updates
- Project management plan updates
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