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4.3 Responsibility for compliance. All items shall meet all requirements of sections 3, 4, and 5. The
inspection set forth in this specification shall become a part of the contractor's overall inspection system
or quality program. The absence of any inspection requirements in the specification shall not relieve the
contractor of the responsibility of ensuring that all products or supplies submitted to the Government for
acceptance comply with all requirements of the contract. Sampling inspection, as part of manufacturing
operations, is an acceptable practice to ascertain conformance to requirements, however, this does not
authorize submission of known defective material, either indicated or actual, nor does it commit the
Government to accept defective material.
4.3.1 Lot records. Manufacturers shall keep lot records for 3 years minimum. Manufacturers shall
monitor for compliance to the prescribed procedures, and observe that satisfactory manufacturing
conditions and records on lots are maintained for these fuel pump assemblies. The records, including as
a minimum, an attributes summary of all quality conformance inspections conducted on each lot, shall be
available to review by customers at all times.
4.4 First article inspection. Unless otherwise specified (see 6.2), five randomly selected pumps,
properly marked with identifying information, from the first 20 pumps produced under the production
contract shall be subjected to a first article inspection. The pumps shall be inspected and tested as
specified and in the order listed in table I.
4.4.1 Sampling. The unit of product shall be one hose assembly. All hose assemblies offered for
delivery at one time shall be considered a lot for the purpose of inspection.
4.4.1.1 Samples for first article. The first article may be either a first production item or a standard
production item from the supplier's current inventory provided the item meets the requirements of the
specification and is representative of the design, construction, and manufacturing technique applicable to
the remaining items to be furnished under the contract.
4.4.2 Failures. All samples must meet all of the contract requirements. Failure of a sample unit to
pass any test shall be cause for rejection of the entire lot and to grant first article approval.
4.4.3 First article samples. Unless otherwise specified, after award of the contract or order, the
manufacturer shall forward 1 fuel pump assembly. The sample shall be representative of the
construction, workmanship, components, and materials to be used during production. When a
manufacturer is in continuous production of the hose assemblies from one contract to another,
submission of additional first article samples for a new contract may be waived at the discretion of the
acquiring activity (see 6.2).
4.4.4 Disposition of samples. First article samples shall be furnished to the Government as directed
by the contracting officer (see 6.2).
4.5 Conformance inspection. For manufacturers that have successfully passed first article
inspections and are continuously producing fuel pumps to this specification on going inspections shall
consist of both the individual inspections, see table II, and the sampling inspection of 4.4.2. If first article
is waived due to prior successful first article inspection the individual inspections shall be the
manufactures in house inspection procedures.
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