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Envm540 Values Assignment

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Attn: Contract Managers
From: Environmental Health & Safety Health Manager
Subject: Contract evaluation for ESH product/service bundles for the noise mapping/exposure monitoring/hearing test vendors.
Overview: As part of our environmental health and safety program, which evaluates our OSHA compliance, we contract with an industrial hygiene service provider to complete the following regular services in our 8 facilities that perform metal machining and fabrication: Noise mapping, exposure monitoring, and hearing tests. These services require specialized equipment and operators including:
• Noise mapping and exposure monitoring: Measurements are collected using a noise evaluation instrument, sounds level meters, octave band analyzers, and noise dosimeters. All equipment …show more content…

Required an audiologist to complete the screening and evaluate the results.
• Regulatory compliance analysis: Experienced staff that will provide analysis of compliance generated by the field staff and audiologist data.
Our current vendor has reached their 3-year renewal period. As part of our operations management strategy, we like to reevaluate each contract before it’s renewed using a value matrix. We have considered 3 alternative vendors to compare our current vendor who is more than adequate, we are simple taking this opportunity to evaluate if the services and cost is competitive at $40K a year.
Performance factors: Cost, flexibility, speed, and quality
The performance factors most relevant to our vendor selection are cost, flexibility, speed and quality. Our evaluation will prioritize quality first, speed second, flexibility third and cost lastly.
• Required performance traits: Quality (functionality, reliability, productivity, and safety)
• Acceptable performance traits: Speed and flexibility (efficiency, customization)
• Unacceptable performance traits: Cost (significantly overpriced

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