DPWH now ISO 9001:2008 certified

May 22, 2015

From the Department of Public Works and Highways

The Quality Management System (QMS) of the Department of Public Works
and Highways is now certified against the requirements of International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2008 standards.

The DPWH ISO 9001:2008 Certification, received from Anglo Japanese

American (AJA) Registrars, Inc., is aligned with President Aquinos call on
government agencies to improve public service delivery and in ensuring
good governance and sustaining the tuwid na daan reform efforts.
Having an ISO 9001:2008 certification is an affirmation that the Quality
Management System being implemented in the DPWH comprising interrelated processes are of international standards.

DPWH Secretary Rogelio L. Singson said that the ISO 901:2008 certification
should be maintained and will really push every employee to continually
improve the Departments processes to sustain public satisfaction.
Included in the DPWH QMS ISO 9001:2008 certificate of registration are nine
(9) Services, six (6) Bureaus, two (2) pilot Regional Offices (National Capital
Region and Region XI), and two (2) pilot District Engineering Offices (South
Manila District Engineering Office and Davao 1st District Engineering Office)
for a total of 19 Offices.
For the second phase, Secretary Singson has directed 33 DPWH offices or
sites comprising five (5) Unified Project Management Offices, the remaining
14 Regional Offices with one (1) corresponding pilot District Engineering
Office each to undergo the same ISO 9001:2008 assessment and certification
process.
The Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) has provided technical
assistance to DPWH to comply with all the requirements for ISO Certification.
Present during the simple hand-over ceremony at DPWH Head Office were
DAP President Antonio D. Kalaw Jr. and Vice President Arnel Abanto, and AJA
Registrars Philippines, Inc. Vice President, Paul B. Bagatsing.
NAMRIA is ISO re-certified
Vener Quintin C. Taguba, Jr. | 25 January 2016

NAMRIA was re-certified for ISO 9001:2008 after hurdling the sixth surveillance and
reassessment audit conducted of the agencys Quality Management System (QMS)
by the Certification International Philippines, Inc. (CIP)

According to the CIP, in their letter from President and Managing Director, Mr.
Renato V. Navarrete to NAMRIA Administrator Peter N. Tiangco, NAMRIAs ISO
9001:2008 Certificate of Registration, with the core process of mapping and
geospatial information management as scope, has a validity of three years from 05
October 2015 to 14 September 2018, subject to satisfactory results of semi-annual
surveillance audits. With the recent revision of ISO 9001, NAMRIA intends to aim
next for certification to ISO 9001:2015.

According to the ISO website at link http://www.iso.org/iso/iso9001_revision, all ISO

standards are reviewed every five years to establish if a revision is required to keep
it current and relevant for the marketplace and that ISO 9001:2015 is designed to
respond to the latest trends and be compatible with other management systems.
ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems is described in the website as the worlds
leading quality management standard.

NAMRIA Administrator Tiangco gave the go signal for the agency to start its quest to
work towards ISO certification in 2011 and since then has very well supported all of
the requisite activities. The initial NAMRIA ISO QMS Committee became the NAMRIA
ISO Core Team with Deputy Administrator Efren P. Carandang as QMR and Director
John Santiago F. Fabic as NAMRIA Deputy QMR now (QMR). NAMRIA first
successfully achieved certification to ISO 9001:2008 or QMS standards officially on
02 October 2012.

NEA gets ISO certification

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The National Electrification Administration (NEA) received its ISO 9001:2008

certification from the TUV Rheinland Cert GmbH on February 10, 2015 after
completing two stages of certification audit.

The state-run agency has effected a Quality Management System (QMS) to further
improve service delivery to the electric cooperatives and other stakeholders through
the implementation of the latest applicable ISO version. The Certification is valid
until 09 February 2018.

Administrator Edita S. Bueno said, NEAs Quality Management System (QMS)

addresses the challenges posed by the passage of Republic Act No. 10531 or the
National Electrification Administration Act of 2013 and responds to the required
government-wide quality management program.

Previously, NEA has been ISO-certified covering the entire organization from 19
October 2000 to 19 December 2003 in recognition of the need for the application of
a QMS for effective program implementation and quality processes.

NEA has formed QMS Teams which developed the ISO-required Quality Manual,
agency-wide System Procedures and 29 Departmental Procedures covering NEAs
core and support services which were duly approved by Administrator Bueno for
implementation by the entire organization effective 01 September 2014.

Following the ISO certification process, NEA selected TUV Rheinland Philippines, Inc.
as its Certification Body. Among the clients of TUV are the Governance Commission
for GOCCS (GCG), Civil Service Commission (CSC), Power Sector Assets and
Liabilities Corporation (PSALM), National Power Corporation (NPC) Power
Engineering Service, and National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).

According to the ISO website, ISO 9001:2008 sets out the criteria for a quality
management system and is the only standard in the ISO family that can be certified.
It can be used by any organization, large or small, regardless of its field of activity.
ISO 9001:2008 is implemented by over one million companies and organizations in
over 170 countries.

This standard is based on a number of quality management principles including a

strong customer focus, the motivation and implication of top management, the
process approach and continual improvement. Checking that the system works is a
vital part of ISO 9001:2008. An organization must perform internal audits to check
how its quality management system is working. An organization may decide to
invite an independent certification body to verify that it is in conformity to the
standard, but there is no requirement for this.###