ISO 9001 Quality Management System

UKAS means the United Kingdom Accreditation Service. UKAS is the UK’s National Accreditation Body, responsible for determining, in the public interest, the technical competence and integrity of organisations such as those offering testing, calibration and certification services

ISO 9001 certification without UKAS accreditation may mean that your organisation have a risk to lose large contracts and business opportunities due to unrecognised ISO certification.

The time to get ISO Certification depend on company size, number of locations, business nature and operation complexity.
For Company (Staff < 20), it take 4 months on average.
For Company (Staff ~50), it take 6 months on average.
For Company (Staff ~100), it take 7-9 months on average.

You may take below steps :

1) ISO Gap Analysis.
2) Establishment of ISO 9001 Documentation.
3) Attend ISO 9001 Training.
4) Implementation of ISO 9001 System.
5) Arrange an Internal Audit
6) External ISO 9001 Audit by Certification Body.

There are two major Fees.
1) ISO 9001 Certification Fee charged by Accredited Certification Body such as SGS, Lloyd’s Register,BV, BSI, ACI, DW..
2) Consultant Fee charged by us.
The Fees depend on company size, number of locations, business nature and operation complexity

Yes. You can take a series of training courses, draft the documentation…. liaise with Certification Body if you have sufficient time and master the ISO 9001 requirements

No. Because of conflict of interest. Certification Body can provide ISO 9001 Standard generic training only but cannot tell you how to implement ISO 9001 System in your company.

Absolutely Yes. In general, ISO Consultant will draft documentation, guide your company to implement ISO 9001 system until passing in ISO 9001 Certification Audit.

In general, the company can put the ISO 9001 logo in the website, name card and letterhead after receipt of corresponding ISO 9001 Certificate.