This reports the quality level an administrator has manually forced this specific reference unit to report, overriding whatever quality level it would otherwise be advertising based on the actual received signal, useful when an operator knows a reference's true quality differs from what it's signaling, or the reference doesn't support SSM signaling at all. An admin bringing up a new, trusted external clock source that doesn't itself transmit SSM codes would configure this object with the known correct quality level so the selection algorithm can rank it correctly against other sources. For example, forcing a GPS-derived reference to report the highest quality level ensures it wins selection over lower-quality alternates even though GPS receivers may not natively send SSM.