Dos and Donts for Conditional Acceptance of Nonconforming Supplies or Services

Abstract

If you stay in Department of Defense (DoD) contracting long enough, you will have to deal with the dreaded issue of contractors trying to deliver nonconforming supplies or services. As a government contracting professional, you have quite a few options in dealing with this problem, including conditional acceptance. The purpose of this article is, first, to share a personal experience I had with conditional acceptance, and, second, to discuss some of the dos and don'ts of conditionally accepting nonconforming items.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1016170

Entities

People

  • Anthony J. Nicolella

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Army Procurement
  • Commerce
  • Contract Administration
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Foreign Military Sales
  • Governments
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Acquisition
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Statistical inference.