The provisional acceptance is referring to the FCC's Public Notice where a lab can, upon providing proof of application for accreditation and conformance to Guide 25, receive temporary acceptance from the FCC to utilize the DoC procedures. This provisional acceptance is for a period of one year (up to 8/19/97) or until application for accreditation has been acted upon, whichever is sooner. If the accreditation is denied, a lab can no longer utilize the DoC process although any DoCs that were issued will remain valid. This is the FCC's provisional acceptance of the lab, not A2LA's or NVLAP's.
>Martin Garwood wrote: >> >> Just received some propaganda from a consultant, this time promising to >> "have your lab provisionally accepted by the FCC in TWO WEEKS", to meet >> the requirements for DOC. I'd love to see a Quality & >> test procedure manual done in 2 weeks. >>What's most interesting is that there is, to the best of my knowledge, no >>such thing as a "provisional" acceptance. You either have NVLAP or AALA >>quality certification or not. No mid-ground according to the folks in >>Maryland. >>Brent John Fessler Lexmark International, Inc.
