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I've got a fun topic for conversation. It's about a company that makes parts for the government and a DCMA inspector.
The stuff we're making for the DOD is pretty simple, mechanical tools. Lots of various random highly specific $200 hammers made in quantities of 3 or 12 or so.
The blueprints are getting a little old, 1960's or thereabouts, and sometimes we have to prove that this or that AN- part number has been superceded or discontinued and is equivalent to this or that part number so our DCMA inspector can buy it off.
We have a tool kit made and purchased IAW with these old drawings, where the drawing says material is AISI O2, oil-hardening steel. We used O1. We used O1 without getting a contract mod and have used O1 in the past for this same tool kit that was signed off by the same DCMA guy.
The reasoning that worked in the past is that O2 is just hard to find and O1 is equivalent, or whatever. I'm feeling this reasoning is a little thin. But, in fact, O2 is nearly impossible to obtain, and I have no-quotes from our regular channels and even Carpenter Steel that I can show. AISI O1 and O2 are pretty similar.
Just looking for a little advice on how I might cover our asses after the guys upstairs pulled our pants down.
I've got a fun topic for conversation. It's about a company that makes parts for the government and a DCMA inspector.
The stuff we're making for the DOD is pretty simple, mechanical tools. Lots of various random highly specific $200 hammers made in quantities of 3 or 12 or so.
The blueprints are getting a little old, 1960's or thereabouts, and sometimes we have to prove that this or that AN- part number has been superceded or discontinued and is equivalent to this or that part number so our DCMA inspector can buy it off.
We have a tool kit made and purchased IAW with these old drawings, where the drawing says material is AISI O2, oil-hardening steel. We used O1. We used O1 without getting a contract mod and have used O1 in the past for this same tool kit that was signed off by the same DCMA guy.
The reasoning that worked in the past is that O2 is just hard to find and O1 is equivalent, or whatever. I'm feeling this reasoning is a little thin. But, in fact, O2 is nearly impossible to obtain, and I have no-quotes from our regular channels and even Carpenter Steel that I can show. AISI O1 and O2 are pretty similar.
Just looking for a little advice on how I might cover our asses after the guys upstairs pulled our pants down.
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