What exactly is being sourced?
Name the product, system, service, or outcome and distinguish required elements from optional features.
Is your requirement ready?
A supplier cannot price, engineer, schedule, or accept responsibility for a requirement that still exists mainly as an idea. Use this checklist before opening the market.
The ten-question readiness test.
Answer each question in writing. “To be determined” is acceptable when it is visible, assigned, and scheduled for resolution.
What will it be used for?
State the intended application, operating environment, users, compatibility requirements, and foreseeable misuse.
Which standards control?
Identify drawings, dimensions, materials, performance targets, certifications, codes, tolerances, and approved equivalents.
What quantity is required?
Separate prototype, sample, pilot, initial order, annual demand, and any minimum-order assumptions.
Where must it go?
Define country, port, final delivery location, unloading constraints, customs responsibility, and permitted routing.
When is it truly needed?
Separate design approval, fabrication completion, inspection, vessel departure, arrival, clearance, and site delivery.
Who has authority?
Identify the decision-maker, technical reviewer, contracting entity, payment authority, and person who may approve changes.
How will acceptance be decided?
Define samples, testing, inspection, documentation, tolerances, punch-list rules, and rejection or correction rights.
What commercial range is supportable?
Establish available funding, payment constraints, landed-cost expectations, contingency, and prohibited commercial terms.
What would failure cost?
Describe the operational effect of delay, substitution, nonconformance, rerouting, underperformance, or non-delivery.
Choose the honest outcome.
Open the market
The material requirement, authority, acceptance method, destination, schedule, and commercial boundaries are defined well enough for comparable responses.
Source with hold points
Market discovery may begin, but unresolved items are identified and no binding commitment occurs before the required decisions are approved.
Finish discovery first
Supplier outreach would generate assumptions, incomparable prices, premature promises, or redesign disguised as a quotation.
Turn the checklist into a controlled requirement.
SDVOBMall can review what is known, identify the unresolved decisions, and structure the next sourcing step.