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Records. Records of examinations and tests performed by or for the contractor shall be maintained by the contractor and made available to the Government upon the Government’s request, at any time, or from time to time, during the performance of the contract and for a period of three years after delivery of the supplies to which such records relate.
Inspection. Inspection, as used herein, shall be defined as the examination and testing of an item. Examination shall be defined as unaided visual, auditory, tactile, or olfactory investigation. Testing shall be defined as the use of laboratory equipment and procedures to determine various properties of an item. Inspections shall be conducted to determine compliance with specification requirements. Where feasible, the same sample shall be used for the determination of two or more inspection characteristics. For inspection purposes, the unit of product shall be one glove.
Sampling for inspection. Sampling for inspection shall be conducted in accordance with MIL-STD-105. Seven samplings shall be performed – one for each salient characteristic specified herein. For each sampling, inspection level S-2 shall be used; the Acceptable Quality Level (AQL) shall be 0.65 percent.
Contractor certification. The contractor shall certify that the product offered meets the salient characteristics of this description and conforms to the producers’ own drawings, specifications, standards, and quality assurance practices. The Government reserves the right to require proof of such conformance prior to first delivery and thereafter as may be otherwise provided for under the provisions of the contract.
Metric products. Products manufactured to metric dimensions will be considered on an equal basis with those manufactured using inch-pound units, providing they fall within the tolerance specified using conversion tables contained in the latest revision of Federal Standard No. 376, and all other requirements of this document are met.
If a product is manufactured to metric dimensions and those dimensions exceed the tolerances specified in the inch/pound units, a request should be made to the contracting officer to determine if the product is acceptable.
The contracting officer has the option of accepting or rejecting the product.
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