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Tell us what needs assessing, the sites and headcount involved and the deadline you are working to. If you are not sure which standard applies, describe what you do and we will tell you what would be in scope.

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What to include

The more of this you can give us, the less back and forth before you have a figure.

  • The sites or legal entities to be covered, and where they are
  • Total headcount, including shift patterns and any remote staff
  • What the organisation actually does at each site
  • Any standards you already hold, and who issued them
  • The date you need to be certified by, and why

Tell us what needs assessing

Fields marked are required. We use what you send here to answer your enquiry and nothing else.

Sites to be covered, current management systems and any deadline you are working to.

After you send it

What happens next

Three steps, in this order. Nothing is booked and nothing is invoiced until the scope is agreed in writing.

  1. Scope check

    An assessor reads your enquiry and confirms which standard applies and which parts of your operation would fall inside the certified scope.

  2. Scoping conversation

    A short call to settle the detail that drives audit duration: sites, headcount, activities, shift patterns and any certificates you already hold.

  3. Written proposal

    You receive the assessment stages, an indicative timeline and a fee quoted against that agreed scope. Audit duration is calculated, not estimated.

Before you enquire

Common questions

A few things worth knowing before we speak. Anything specific to your operation is better covered in the enquiry form above.

Cannot see what you need?

It depends on the standard, the size of your organisation and how much is already in place. Where a system is largely documented and operating, the route from scoping to certification audit is typically eight to twelve weeks. Where a system is being built from the beginning, four to six months is a more realistic expectation. Standards such as ISO 27001 and ISO 13485 generally take longer because of the evidence required. We give an indicative timeline once the scope is agreed.

Fees are quoted against your agreed scope. The main factors are the number of sites, total headcount, the complexity of your activities, the standards involved and whether audits can be integrated. Audit duration is calculated using recognised methods rather than set arbitrarily. We complete scoping before quoting so the figure reflects the actual audit days required. Published price lists are unreliable for this work because two organisations of the same size can need very different programmes.

Consultancy means building or improving your management system: writing procedures, designing controls, training staff. Certification means independently assessing that system against a standard and issuing a decision. The two must be kept apart. An assessment body cannot design a system and then certify its own work, because the audit would no longer be impartial. Where UKCert provides readiness support, it is delivered under separate arrangements from the certification decision, and the separation is documented.

Yes. Standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 share a common structure, so requirements for leadership, planning, competence, internal audit and management review can be assessed once rather than repeatedly. This is called an integrated audit. It reduces total audit days, avoids interviewing the same people about the same clauses and gives you a single coordinated programme. The scope and any exclusions are agreed for each standard separately.