Migrate ISO 9001:2015 Certificate

[CindyG]

Hello, Our company (which is ISO 9001-2015 Certified) recently bought a company that is not certified.
Can we add them to our certificate or market them under our ISO Cert. prior to them going through a QMS audit?

Just wondering if we can migrate them to the ISO 9001:2015 Cert. that we hold and market them as ISO certified "under us"?

Thank you for your much needed help!

 

[Sidney Vianna]

You can add the additional site to your certificate ONLY AFTER they have been audited by the Certification Body and deemed compliant.

Also, technically, this is not a "migration", but a scope expansion of the certificate to add the new company.

 

[dsheaffe]

Just in addition to Sidney's response. Until you have this new site/address audited and formally added to the scope of your certification, you need to be careful that you don't even 'imply' that this site is certified. For exaample, having their address on documentation that has your ISO9001 certification logo - unless you specifically mention what addresses the cerification applies to.

 

[Randy]

It's called "Extension to Scope" audit and will normally be the same duration as a Stage 2 visit (I've done 3 or 4 this year alone and 1 planned for next week). No big deal

 

[Sidney Vianna]

That's right !

No big deal

You pay it; you've got it. No big deal.