Qualifying a new source takes longer than the obligation allows
Qualifying a new source runs through AS9100D, first article and export control, while the obligation attached to the award reports on its own schedule.
Four gates run on schedules that do not line up
The costA new source does not clear inside a sourcing cycle.
Qualification starts from zero while the clock has run since award, and that gap is what ConvergX works on.
AS9100D on the quality system.
An AS9102 first article on the part.
NADCAP accreditation where a special process is involved, in heat treat, chemical processing or non-destructive testing.
Export control registration before a technical data package moves anywhere.
Different people run each gate, and flow-down means the sub-tier clears them too.
The supplier quality lead who owns this is measured on first-article pass rate and escape rate. Letting an unqualified source through the gate is the thing they are paid to prevent.
Every one of those gates establishes whether a company is capable of the work, and whether it has capacity for your requirement is a separate question no gate asks.
The obligation runs on its own calendar
The clockQualification has no bearing on that calendar.
Both of these are public policy, and neither one is anything ConvergX built.
Under Canada's Industrial and Technological Benefits Policy, a major defence award carries a commitment to business activity in Canada, reported against a scored contractual schedule.
The Canadian Program for Cyber Security Certification, CPCSC, sits on top of the Controlled Goods Program rather than replacing it.
The person answering for that schedule is rarely the person who owns the qualification gates, and although both are measured, neither one can move the other.
So the requirement goes back to the source already on the approved list, and the commitment gets worked with whoever is already in the building.
The company that could have held it has never made a part for the programme, and no search you could run was going to return it.
ConvergX is not in your approval chain
The boundaryConvergX holds no accreditation and issues no certificate.
It does not qualify a supplier, and every gate above stays exactly where it is today, run by the people who run it now.
ConvergX has no official standing under any of it. An introduction is not credit against an obligation, and ConvergX takes no part in what gets reported.
ConvergX finds the company that can hold the requirement, asks whether it can hold yours on your timeline, and brokers the introduction.
The requirement goes out with no name on it. Your identity reaches the other side when ConvergX brokers the introduction and you have agreed to it, and not before.
You enter first article with a candidate ConvergX has already vetted.
If your company could hold a requirement like this, the gate is passable.
ConvergX vets you before a problem holder ever sees your name.