Site Selection & Feasibility Assessment
Structured comparison and decision-record template for choosing a manufacturing site: candidate matrix, regulatory jurisdiction and inspection-regime analysis, utilities and infrastructure feasibility, workforce and supply-chain factors, EHS/permitting, and a defensible recommendation.
What a template is not
A template is a document baseline to adapt inside your own quality system. SPEQ does not approve, validate, or take responsibility for what you issue from it, and using one is not evidence of compliance.
The record of why one site was chosen over the others, written while the alternatives are still live rather than reconstructed years later when an inspector asks. The jurisdiction decision is the one that outlives every other criterion — it determines which authority inspects the facility for its operating life. Weighting the criteria is the organisation’s judgement; the template only insists that the weighting is agreed before scoring starts.
What's Inside
How to Use It
The full section structure of this template — every section and sub-section, so you can use it as a baseline for your own site document.
No authority licenses a site selection. The ISPE Good Practice Guide: Project Management frames it as a project-governance decision with a defined stage gate, and ICH Q9(R1) supplies the risk-management thinking applied to jurisdiction, utility and supply-chain risk. What no guidance decides is your weighting, your risk appetite, or which criterion is allowed to veto a candidate. The comparison structure here is SPEQ synthesis; the obligation it serves is that the decision remain explicable long after the alternatives are forgotten.