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- 08/25/95
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- Title: Pre-Delivery Inspections Save Time and Money
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- Identifier: L-1995-OR-LMESX10-0801 Date: 8/25/95
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- Lesson Learned:
- Site organizations may prevent costly downtime and increase
safety margins
- by ensuring that procurement documents for leased mobile
cranes and similar
- lifting equipment are processed appropriately. Procurement
documents
- should include a requirement that suppliers of this equipment
perform a
- pre-delivery inspection of the equipment for the detection of
- suspect/counterfeit (S/C) parts, and S/C parts criteria should
be included
- in purchase/lease contracts.
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- Discussion:
- Around the end of October 1994, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems
(LMES; at
- that time, Martin Marietta Energy Systems), Oak Ridge National
Laboratory
- (ORNL), Waste Management and Remedial Actions Division, Solid
Waste
- Operations leased two (2) 120-ton capacity lattice boom
crawler cranes.
- After the cranes arrived on site, the cranes were inspected
and S/C
- fasteners were identified installed in the cranes.
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- Delays resulting from the discovery (by ORNL) and the
replacement (by the
- supplier) of the S/C fasteners increased the overall cost of
the work the
- cranes were procured to perform. Leaving the S/C fasteners in
place
- without proper action would have resulted in a violation of
S/C Parts
- Program requirements. Operating the cranes with S/C parts in
place would
- have created a potentially unsafe condition. Work was stopped
to replace
- the suspect fasteners.
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- Recommended Actions:
- Solid Waste Operations (SWO) personnel are including S/C parts
acceptance
- and inspection criteria in procurement documents under the
provisions of
- LMES Procedure PC-165, "Technical Review of Procurement
Documents" and ORNL
- Standard Practice Procedure (SPP) X-GP-16, "Procurement of
Critical
- Application/ Safety-Class Items and Services at ORNL." For
example, in May
- 1995, SWO rented a 60-ton capacity, rough terrain crane and
included the
- necessary requirements in the procurement document. The lease
agreement
- required the supplier to conduct a pre-delivery inspection of
the crane for
- S/C parts. If suspect fasteners were discovered, the supplier
was required
- to have them replaced before providing the equipment to LMES.
- Implementation of these requirements prevented lost time after
crane
- delivery, reduced the job cost, and potentially improved the
margin of
- safety.
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- Waste Management Operations Division, Solid Waste Operations
(SWO)
- personnel recommend that LMES organizations and other sites
throughout the
- DOE complex be sensitive to these issues and ensure provisions
for vendor
- pre-delivery inspections for S/C parts are made part of the
purchase/lease
- contracts. Contact K. D. (Kent) Calfee (615-241-3064) for
additional
- information.
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- Originator: Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc.; Oak Ridge
National Lab
- (K. D. (Kent) Calfee 615-241-3064)
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- Contact: A. L. Wachs, (615-574-2343)
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- Name of Authorized Derivative Classifier: n/a
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- Name of Reviewing Official: Dave Hamrin
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- Priority Descriptor: Blue/Information
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- Functional Category: 430 - Facility Operations
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- Keywords: Inspection, pre-delivery, suspect, counterfeit
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- References: LMES Procedure PC-165, "Technical Review of
Procurement
- Documents."
- ORNL SPP X-GP-16, "Procurement of Critical
Application/Safety-Class Items
- and Services at ORNL."
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