Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 5eb2dc52-e4fd-4516-96e8-78311f9c289e
Document Type: srp
Title: QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM DESCRIPTION - DESIGN CERTIFICATION,
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1403/ML14035A202.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 17
Section ID: 17.5
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, or NRC audits). 10. Procurement audits of suppliers are accomplished as follows (per RG 1.28): a. Audits are not necessary for procuring the following items: (1) Those that are relatively simple and standard in design, manufacturing, and testing. (2) Those that are adaptable to standard or automated inspections or tests of the end product to verify quality characteristics after delivery. 17.5-30 Draft Revision 1 – August 2014 b. Audits are conducted as follows for procurement of items not covered by the exceptions discussed above: (1) The supplier’s QA program is audited on a triennial basis. (2) The triennial period begins when the first audit is performed. (3) An audit is initially performed after the supplier has completed sufficient work to demonstrate that its organization is implementing a QA program. (4) If a subsequent contract or a contract modification significantly enlarges the scope of or changes the methods or controls for activities performed by the same supplier, an audit of the modified requirements is conducted, thus starting a new triennial period. (5) If the supplier is implementing the same QAP for other customers that are proposed for use on the auditing party’s contract, the preaward survey may serve as the first triennial audit. Therefore, when such preaward surveys are employed, as the first triennial audits, they must satisfy the same audit elements and criteria as those used on other triennial audits. (6) If more than one purchaser buys from a single supplier, a purchaser may either perform or arrange for an audit of the supplier on behalf of itself and other purchasers to reduce the number of external audits of the supplier. The scope of this audit should satisfy the needs of all of the purchasers, and the audit report should be distributed to all the purchasers for whom the audit was conducted. Nevertheless, each of the purchasers relying on the results of an audit performed on behalf of several purchasers remains individually