Surveillance Plan (SP)

Purpose

Used by the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), a Surveillance Plan is essentially the blueprint for an upcoming or ongoing contractor surveillance and oversight. Using a risk-based approach, Surveillance Plans are worked by a multifunctional group of DCMA Functional Specialists, covering Quality Assurance requirements, Contract Requirements and other areas that support the supplier surveillance process for government contracts, while on-site at a contractor’s facility

The SP module is used to create, store and edit Surveillance Plans. Deliverable Product Evaluations (DPE), Deliverable Service Evaluations (DSE), Process Evaluations & Progress Evaluations (PE) will also be recorded within the SP application.

Policy

Surveillance Plan policy is controlled by DCMA Manual 2303-01.
It covers requirements for:

Assessing Risk
Planning Surveillance
Surveillance Execution
Documenting Results
Identifying and Addressing Contractor Performance Deficiencies
Evaluation of Surveillance Plans

Searching and Pulling Reports

Surveillance Plans may be searched for by two methods. The first is the Surveillance Plan Worklist which generates a basic report that may be exported to a spreadsheet or worked in accordance with user access capabilities. The second is the Surveillance Plan Ad Hoc which can be used to generate a variety of reports and data pulls. Instructions for utilizing the Ad Hoc feature can be found in the DCMA Surveillance Plan (SP) User Guide.

Frequently Asked Questions

A list of frequently asked questions for the Surveillance Plan module are found on the Frequently Asked Questions page under the ‘SP’ tab.

Resources

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