67 Pa. Code § 177.521. Contractor obligations and responsibilities.

CONTRACTOR OBLIGATIONS

§ 177.521. Contractor obligations and responsibilities.

(a)  Services to be contracted. The Department intends to contract with a vendor to perform services, including but not limited to, inspection station audits, inspection test data collection, on-road testing and other quality assurance efforts needed to comply with Federal law. The vendor is responsible for providing all services as specified in contracts executed with the Department, which shall be available for public review.
(b)  Subcontracts. The vendor may subcontract any of these services, with the approval of the Department, but the vendor shall be liable to the Department for the performance of the subcontractor.
(c)  Personal liability. The contractor, or those acting as agents of the contractor, shall assume full responsibility for:
   (1)  Making records available to the Department quality assurance personnel and other authorized Commonwealth personnel during periodic audits.
   (2)  Providing to the Department, at no cost to the Department, the results of the emission tests conducted at emission inspection stations. The requirements for data collection and transmission shall be as specified in the contract between the Department and the contractor.
   (3)  Providing to the Department, at no cost to the Department, the results of inspection station audits and on-road testing. The requirements for data collection and transmission shall be as specified in the contract between the Department and the contractor.
   (4)  Maintaining copies of test results and other data in the event that there are problems with the online transmission. The copies may be discarded only after notification by the Department that data from the original transmission has been satisfactorily transferred for data processing.
   (5)  Using computer control of quality assurance checks and quality control charts whenever possible.

Source

   The provisions of this §  177.521 amended November 21, 2003, effective November 22, 2003, 33 Pa.B. 5706. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (235304) to (235305).

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