Corporate Documents cover local facility - How many departments can I exempt?

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GooGooB

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I work for a Global construction company- ABC. The specific project that I am employed with- DEF, does service work for a single federal contract - GOV. Our parent company ABC that we are a project of, is already ISO Certified and we are covered under their ISO certificate umbrella complete with yearly ISO audits to ensure compliance. Now the agency we contract with - GOV has told us on the next contract, we will have 1 year to obtain an ISO Certificate for our project DEF. My problem is that Project Accounting, HR and IT all follow the corporate-ABC ISO procedures. It is already documented on the corporate level. Should or Can I exempt those depts from our "project" ISO? I do not have access to all the Finance and HR DB's to write procedures, the same thing is true for IT. They are required to follow corporate naming procedures for servers, process updates and so on...Can a project obtain their own ISO certificate separate from the parent company? Our certificate is for ISO 9001:2008. I am becoming frustrated with not knowing which direction to go in.
 
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pldey42

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As long as you follow processes that are conformant with ISO 9001 requirements you're fine. There is no requirement to write your own, nor to duplicate corporate work, for that would be wasteful. So you can use corporate processes without changing them or rewriting them, provided they're fit for purpose.

If you're certified under the corporate certification, everything you do should be conformant with ISO 9001 and satisfy certification requirements. The certification for your area specifically would be a duplication of effort and an unnecessary expense.

So the question is, why does the customer want a specific certification? Do they not trust the corporate umbrella one? From their past experience with your organization, do they have reason to be concerned about performance, or about the reliability of the corporate certification? Do the corporate processes not meet customer requirements in some regard and therefore yours need changing and separation from the corporate system?

Hope this helps,
Pat
 
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GooGooB

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I am not really sure why, except to put us on a level playing field with other vendors who where not ISO certified. But when it comes to government, why ask why?
 
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GooGooB

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So you are stating I would not have to duplicate efforts, wouldn't I have to indicate in writing why? Thank You for your help.
 
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