Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing calculator
Source Inspection Cost Calculator
Price an inspection performed at the supplier’s location. Enter inspected lots, the lot fee, chargeable lots and one separate visit charge.
What this calculator does
- Budget source inspection costs and identify lot inspection fees excluded from the customer quote.
Formula used
- Lot inspection cost = inspected lots × cost per lot
- Total cost = lot inspection cost + fixed visit and staging cost
- Chargeable amount = chargeable lots × cost per lot
- Unbilled lot cost = lot inspection cost − chargeable amount
- Budget headroom = inspection budget − total cost
Inputs explained
- Source Inspection Lots: Whole lots covered by the planned source inspection.
- Inspection Cost per Lot: Quoted lot inspection cost excluding the separately entered visit charge.
- Chargeable Inspection Lots: Lots whose inspection fee is included in the customer quote.
- Fixed Visit and Staging Cost: One-time travel, visit and staging charge for this inspection scope.
- Inspection Budget: Cost allowance for the same lots and visit.
How to use the result
- Best suited to source visit Quotes, inspection fee recovery.
- The quote determines cost recovery; this does not establish government reimbursement entitlement. Inspection cost does not establish lot acceptance or replace contract inspection requirements.
Current U.S. benchmarks
- Steel mill PPI stands at 381.162 (BLS, Aug 2026), up 23.4% from a year earlier. New factory orders are up 8.5% year over year (Census).
- The U.S. has 11,691 transportation equipment establishments employing about 1,682,910 workers (Census County Business Patterns, 2023).
Common questions
- Does source inspection mean government inspection only? No. Enter the inspection service actually being priced, and identify whether its scope is government, customer or supplier inspection.
- What if one trip covers several lots? Count all inspected lots and enter the shared visit charge once.
- Can the chargeable amount include travel? This amount covers lot inspection fees only. Recovery of the separate visit charge must be checked in the quote.
- Are rejected lots free to inspect? No. Include performed inspection work unless the service agreement actually waives its charge.
Last reviewed 2026-10-06.