Common use of Quality Control/Quality Assurance Clause in Contracts

Quality Control/Quality Assurance. 5.1. The Contractor will provide details of internal QC/QA data as and when requested to do so by the Authority, but at no more than a monthly frequency. The Authority will send the Contractor ‘blind’ samples of known genotype on a regular basis. The Contractor will be paid for these samples but will undertake to discuss immediately with the Authority any unexpected results. The Contractor will take immediate action to make any correction to their procedures or processes which are found to be necessary at no cost to the Authority. 5.2. If it transpires that the Contractor has supplied an incorrect result, they will test immediately duplicate samples which may need to be taken. If the contractor has been shown to be responsible for the incorrect result the Authority’s reasonable full economic costs, not to exceed [*] per sample in collecting these samples for re-testing will be debited from the Contractor’s next monthly invoice.