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Hello,
Hopefully the right forum:
Right set the scene, we're a 9001:2000 certified software company with offices in the Europe, Americas, and Asia-Pacific. We've decided to split our development house into product lines (or business units) the net result being we're going to move the R&D of one of our product lines to another office.
My certification body has insisted that they need a thorough audit before they can change the scope of certifiation on our certificate, ie, add development in for the other office. Is the a reasonable request? To me it's little more than an address change and it is going to be hugely expensive flying an auditor out for a day or less in auditing time.
A bit more detail, hopefully to answer some of your initial questions: The move is to an existing office, ie, already within the scope of the certification. Existing IT infrastructure. It's software so there's no awkward export, copyright, supplier or manufacting type problems we don't already address. The new operation will continue to use the existing (audited) processes, we will initially transfer exisiting some staff to the other office. The numner of staff will be around 5 (five). Apart from a new address very little will have changed. What is the value of this audit?
Thanks in advance
Hopefully the right forum:
Right set the scene, we're a 9001:2000 certified software company with offices in the Europe, Americas, and Asia-Pacific. We've decided to split our development house into product lines (or business units) the net result being we're going to move the R&D of one of our product lines to another office.
My certification body has insisted that they need a thorough audit before they can change the scope of certifiation on our certificate, ie, add development in for the other office. Is the a reasonable request? To me it's little more than an address change and it is going to be hugely expensive flying an auditor out for a day or less in auditing time.
A bit more detail, hopefully to answer some of your initial questions: The move is to an existing office, ie, already within the scope of the certification. Existing IT infrastructure. It's software so there's no awkward export, copyright, supplier or manufacting type problems we don't already address. The new operation will continue to use the existing (audited) processes, we will initially transfer exisiting some staff to the other office. The numner of staff will be around 5 (five). Apart from a new address very little will have changed. What is the value of this audit?
Thanks in advance