Vendor qualification is an essential component of a quality program. However, approaches and details vary among cell therapy laboratories. What makes a phone or written survey sufficient to qualify your donor relevant communicable disease testing laboratory? How much information do you need about the hospital facilities engineer who fixes your freezer or the environmental staff who clean the laboratory? What should you know about an offsite cell therapy product collection facility? These topics will be addressed as the speakers review the requirements, the challenges, and offer practical solutions to vendor qualifications for a cell therapy laboratory.