Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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were vendor data wasn't getting their information or
enough information to the engineering teams. And by
this, I mean, the engineering teams assumed that
vendors knew what to give to the engineers. And
that wasn't the case.
So what you resulted in was a lot of
uncertainties in the form of missing data, late
data, things of that sort. And one of the solutions
that industry found was developing a standard
preprinted form that was used in a meeting to sort
of kick off the vendor/engineer team relationships.
Coordination problems was also a common
issue that was found and what they suggested was, of
course, vendor data coordination meetings, which I'm
sure the mechanical program was already doing. But
it's just kind of a reiteration of what they found.
A lot of people were already doing this, but it's a
reiteration on the importance of these coordination
meetings, because you've got so many disciplines
that review this information and what they were
finding was the civil department would have some
comments, mechanical would have comments, and the
vendor would receive those and wasn't sure which
comments were common to everything.
And then I'm not sure if this applies to
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