rogerpenna
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My company has an ISO 9001:2015 certificate. Auditing organization was BVQI. Last re-certification was october 2019. Certification cycle started in September 2018, so the Certificate is valid until September 2021, subject to "continuous operation of the QMS. (which I suppose means it's only valid if we do yearly external audits with BVQI, which they call "revisions")
Due to the Covid pandemic, we do not really want an external auditor here. We will have to drive the auditor around, because each day he will have to audit a different work site (we are a civil instrastructure building company), take him to lunch, etc.
I heard the IAF had allowed prorrogation of certificates for 6 months due to the pandemic. Which we understood as meaning we could do the revision around january or february 2021.
But BVQI is pushing to make the revision audit still in 2020, telling us we can have our certificate suspended in the next months, then do the revision audit in November 2020, but since there is no auditor available in the area, they can prorrogate it to have the audit from 21 to 24 December (lol... at Christmas time. Plus we will be on collective summer vacations at that date)
Anyone has any info about certificates prorrogations due to the pandemic, external audits, etc? Any input on the situation?
My company has an ISO 9001:2015 certificate. Auditing organization was BVQI. Last re-certification was october 2019. Certification cycle started in September 2018, so the Certificate is valid until September 2021, subject to "continuous operation of the QMS. (which I suppose means it's only valid if we do yearly external audits with BVQI, which they call "revisions")
Due to the Covid pandemic, we do not really want an external auditor here. We will have to drive the auditor around, because each day he will have to audit a different work site (we are a civil instrastructure building company), take him to lunch, etc.
I heard the IAF had allowed prorrogation of certificates for 6 months due to the pandemic. Which we understood as meaning we could do the revision around january or february 2021.
But BVQI is pushing to make the revision audit still in 2020, telling us we can have our certificate suspended in the next months, then do the revision audit in November 2020, but since there is no auditor available in the area, they can prorrogate it to have the audit from 21 to 24 December (lol... at Christmas time. Plus we will be on collective summer vacations at that date)
Anyone has any info about certificates prorrogations due to the pandemic, external audits, etc? Any input on the situation?