after you hand in the shell to the authorities, a few few days passed and then nimhe will inform you that she has hacked the blueprints for this shell and maybe can construct one.
There is also the possibility to replicate the packed shell in the waystation replicator of the last star system. After that you can hand in one of your two copies
Performing quality control on bots requires that your tech skill is high enough. You can raise it firstly by repairing parts in the lab interface, little wrench symbol, after that you can increase your tech skill by upgrading parts, little triangle symbol, after that you can perform quality control on different kinds of shells