What Is RMS, QAS, and QCS?

 

The Resident Management System (RMS) is a user-friendly comprehensive system for the expedient and effective management of construction contracts through tracking and documentation of all facets of a contract by Corps of Engineers’ field offices and contractors. RMS uses Oracle ® as its database engine.

The Quality Assurance System (QAS) is an extension of RMS for Government personnel to use remotely from the main RMS software program. Certain modules/tasks can be assigned by RMS to be accomplished with QAS and such modules/tasks will become read only in the RMS program. The program can import and/or export to and from RMS to synchronize both programs. QAS uses Firebird ® as its database engine.

The Quality Control System (QCS) is the Contractor Module of RMS that construction contractors utilize to exchange information electronically with the Government. The QCS program includes a Remote QCS Program module that allows the Master QCS Site to assign various modules to one or more remote QCS sites. It operates similar in principle to the QAS program that is used remotely from the Government program (RMS). QCS also uses Firebird ® as its database engine.