Welcome to the Quality Management System (QMS) Auditor resource page. This page is designed to assist you in conducting QMS audits. 

QMS audits are a part of the larger role  your organization performs in regards to Quality Assurance. You will use auditing as part of GCQA surveillance following your organization's Instructions and applying the standard to which the contractor is held, together to have a level of confidence that the contractor's QMS is effective in controlling processes and that the outputs of those processes are meeting contractual requirements.

Auditing is one of your most important ools in your surveillance toolkit. Some of the benefits are:

• Establishes a basis for confidence in the contractor’s QMS and its ability to provide conforming product in accordance with contract requirements
• Determines conformity of a contractor’s QMS to contractual requirements
• Helps to assure customer satisfaction and identify processes improvements that will produce safe and reliable products and services that meet or exceed customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements
• Helps to identify needs for improvements in a contractor's QMS, which can result in improvements in quality and reductions in cost throughout the value stream
• By identifying and correcting weaknesses in the contractor's QMS, you help prevent nonconforming products from being produced and delivered to the warfighter.