Looking for alternatives to ISO 9001 accreditation

[Colin]

Thanks Paul, I am happy that my memory has not failed me completely (yet). I remembered it as a 'purchasing standard' i.e. one which was imposed to help assure the purchaser rather than a standard which was for the direct benefit of the 'user', that came later as ISO 9001 evolved.

 

[amanbhai]

Our organization is looking for some standard which can offer technical competence. Like for Lab functions we have ISO 17025:2005, for IT we have ISO 27001 (compliance) for inspections we are in a documentation process of ISO 17020. etc etc.
This maybe an alternate to ISO 9001 but what i'm saying to the management is that we shall not leave ISO 9001 though we are working on other standards as well.