Vendor inspection

Vendor inspections are surveillance activities on testing carried out at supplier's premises, during production. In Infrastructure market, where procurement assigns a massive number of items, with many different manufacturers around the world, vendor inspections have several benefits as such as:

• assure the good development of the project
• check the right quality of equipment, products and components delivered by vendors
• verify the conformity with the requirements of applicable international standards or technical specifications stated in the contract
• detect eventual defects at source
• check in advance the compliance with client expectations, in order to minimize or avoid the risk of extra costs, due to subsequent failures at site.

The activity is carried out in accordance with the RINA governance model, which safeguards impartiality and prevents conflict of interest situations.

Service details

The main areas of inspection are:

• beams, piles, installation and equipment
• all components, materials, products involved in a civil construction.

Deliverables

Main duties are:

• design review
• visual inspections
• review of certificates
• witness of testing to be performed during production
• final inspection and factory acceptance test
• non-destructive testing.

Furthermore, RINA has extensive expertise in order to review specifications and inspection test plans (ITP plan).

Why RINA?

We provide a wide portfolio of services all over the world, with high-experienced technicians in quality control activities during production of each single item. Our international network allows us to provide inspections in several countries from the countries where the manufacturer is based to the countries where the items are delivered. We guarantee availability of personnel as such as Resident on site also worldwide. Our IT tools allows us to be prompt for each single request for inspection and to coordinate several teams.

Q&A

Do you have international qualification?
Yes, we do have.

Are you able to manage overseas jobs?
Yes we have inspectors in all the countries and project manager dedicated to coordinate the inspections locally.