Seller Response and Quality Assurance

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