Your Guide to Navigating the Purchase Process
The NASA Buy-Quiet process helps you purchase low-noise equipment that is efficient, cost-effective, and, most importantly, safe for the people who work with and around it. Like most processes, this one can get pretty long and complicated, so use this roadmap to find your way through it!
This Roadmap is intended to be a reasonably generic tool that may be customized to fit the specific needs of each NASA center, facility, or contractor organization and should be modified as appropriate for consistency and compliance with existing NASA and site-specific procurement procedures. Non-NASA organizations are invited to adapt the Roadmap to their operations but are cautioned that NASA does not provide technical support for the Roadmap or for any auxiliary resources associated with it.
Note: This program is focused solely on hearing loss prevention and does not address other important noise exposure issues such as speech intelligibility and work environment comfort that are often associated with moderate- or lower-level noise sources. A comprehensive approach to noise exposure management will consider these lower and moderate level noise issues as well as hearing loss prevention when developing requirements for any siting, procurement, and design projects.
Roadmap Organization
The Roadmap is organized into three main sections:
- Process: Follow these steps in sequence to understand the NASA Buy-Quiet Process from beginning to end.
- Examples: These slide shows depict hypothetical quiet purchases to illustrate the Buy-Quiet Process in action.
- Resources: Additional information, worksheets, and Web site links will help you gather the information needed to complete the NASA Buy-Quiet Process and make a strong business case for reducing noise emission.
