The purpose of this engagement is to retain the Contractor to provide platform specific advice and expertise on Quality Assurance aspects to the stakeholders that will ensure project completion and costs savings throughout the project lifecycle. Quality assurance includes the periodic review of key project processes, documentation (i.e., business case, project charter, project schedule and budget – original and current baseline, requirements, designs, and project reports, etc.), and interviews with key business and technical staff. Quality assurance also includes evaluating, identifying, and recommending adjustments to the activities or tasks (and associated resources) that must be performed in the project to provide confidence that the project will satisfy the relevant quality standards. 

Responsibilities
The Contractor shall:

· Develop and submit a written operational definition of the quality standards (“Quality Standards”) for the Project products and processes, which describe in very specific terms, what the standards are, and how each will be measured by the quality control process. 

o Identifying from the template the relevant process and product quality standards, risk cues or measurements which are appropriate for the Project based on the Project’s current business and technical complexity assessment. 

o Recommending additional quality standards based on the type of project, current phase of the project, or expert opinion where the absence of a quality standard would present high risk to the project, e.g. information security.

o Recommending elimination of unnecessary quality standards based on the Project’s business and technical complexity assessment or current phase of the Project.

· QA Contractor shall determine how the Quality Standards will be monitored and measured with the checklist below:

o Indicate a specific review procedure to follow, e.g. a procedure for schedule analysis, code walk-through, peer review, interviews, lessons learned, test methodology, or if the review will be performed informally.

o Verify and record that a set of required inspections have been performed.

o Indicate that the minimum quality standard has been met.

o Record the measurements.

o Identify the expected risk cue or measurement.

o Indicate the expected acceptability or tolerance.

o Indicate the rank of the quality standards where risk was found unacceptable.

o Indicate change in risk rank since previous review.

o Indicate a reference that will describe what was reviewed, who was interviewed, and the information or reasoning that non-adherence to a specific quality standard causes risk.