As a part of our (Gem Engserv) services related to Quality Management, we offer Quality Audits as well as Third-Party Quality Control services amongst many other services. In the course of discussions to understand how best to serve them (scoping), some clients enquire if we can provide quality rating as a part of our service offering, most often bundled with Quality Audits. This desire of the client's senior management to derive a numerical score as a proxy of the quality of their project is the basis of this article.