HII Mission Technologies relies on strong partnerships with suppliers to deliver world-class solutions. To ensure success, suppliers are expected to meet the following standards:
Contract Understanding – Terms and Conditions: Suppliers are expected to fully understand and comply with all contractual requirements and flow them down to their subcontractors as appropriate. The Purchase Order Terms and Conditions provide a comprehensive list of requirements to which must be complied. Examples include (but are not limited to) insurance, warranties, hazardous material requirements, limitations on certain types of material, import/export requirements, invoices, Federal Acquisition Requirements (FAR), etc.
Safety: If you work within any of Mission Technologies facilities whether office setting, client site, warehouse, or manufacturing space, you are expected to train your employees in proper safety precautions for that location. Your employees are expected to understand and follow all Mission Technologies safety rules for each site they support.
Quality: Supporting Mission Technologies in the development and delivery of all domain solutions in service to our nation, requires that all products and services procured to be of the highest quality to create the advantage for our customers to protect peace and freedom around the world. We expect the hardware received to have zero defects and services we procure to meet all requirements. All supporting technical documents must be correct and complete at initial issue. Services performed must be done efficiently and in a safe quality manner. Suppliers should have approved quality systems as appropriate (MIL, ISO, AS9100, CMMI, etc). Suppliers should have a strong subcontract management/sub-tier relationship process to assure quality and timeliness from its contractors.
Cost: You are expected to provide your product at a fair and reasonable price. You should also strive to understand the costs in your own processes, reduce them where possible, and pass on those savings.
Schedule: We expect that once a contract delivery date is agreed upon for services or material that every effort is made to honor and meet those commitments.
Shipping/Packaging: Suppliers are expected to comply with all shipping guidelines including appropriate packaging.
Security: Given the nature of the work we perform, it is very critical that security precautions be in place to protect technical and sensitive information. Suppliers should also be aware of security requirements required of individuals accessing the facilities.
Business Conduct: HII and its employees comply with all applicable legal requirements and the highest ethical standards of the United States and each foreign country in which business is conducted. No employee will offer or accept any bribe or kickback. In addition, employees will neither offer nor accept any gratuity made for the purpose of influencing the judgment of the recipient. Suppliers must also abide by our ethical business conduct standards.
Continuous Improvement: It is a goal for Mission Technologies suppliers continue to improve their processes. We encourage you to make suggestions on how to improve your product and to engage collaborative product and process improvement initiatives.
Communications: Suppliers are expected to notify Mission Technologies when any significant event occurs that can impact their relationship with Mission Technologies. This can include shifting of work to other facilities, address changes, debarment, union strikes, fire or natural disaster, etc. Also, suppliers should make every attempt to keep Mission Technologies abreast of key personnel changes, email updates, and phone number changes.
Mission Technologies success can only happen with the best suppliers as part of our winning solutions. We highly encourage you to share your qualifications with Mission Technologies through our new graphiteConnect supplier portal at the URL listed below.
Inside the portal, you can expect to provide your basic company information to enable us to identify your company for future opportunities based on the capabilities you share using badges and checklists, as well as the ability to upload line cards and other documents you wish share.
Connect with Mission Technologies and Complete a Profile By Clicking Here
Mission Technologies requires all companies to have a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) to be eligible for consideration of work under a U.S. Government subcontract through registration at sam.gov.
Please see the following resources to learn more about the UEI number and how to obtain one at no cost to you. Make sure you answer yes that you have obtained your UEI number at sam.gov in the graphiteConnect portal to be able to provide your UEI.
If you are chosen for a Request for Quotation and/or a Purchase Order, you’ll be asked to complete a full profile in graphiteConnect with payment/remit to, tax information and other information as required by Mission Technologies.
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