Everything Your Organisation Needs to Become Certified — Except the Certificate Itself.
IBEC is an international board that provides the solutions and services that take organisations to ISO certification: gap assessment, system design, implementation, training, internal audit and readiness audit. The certification audit and the certificate come from an independent certification body. That separation is what makes the certificate worth having.
IBEC Is Not a Certification Body. Here Is Exactly What That Means.
When an organisation is certified to ISO 9001 or any other management-system standard, a certification body audits it and issues the certificate in the certification body's own name. IBEC never performs that role. We design, build, train and prepare — and then we step aside while an independent body decides.
This is not a limitation. It is the same discipline we apply to individual certification, where our Certification Partner examines and awards. A consultant who also audits and certifies its own work produces a certificate no buyer should trust. We would rather produce one they can.
What IBEC does
- Gap assessment and implementation roadmap
- Management-system design and documentation
- Workforce training and internal auditor development
- Internal audit, management review and readiness audit
- Certification body selection and audit coordination
What IBEC does not do
- Conduct the Stage 1 or Stage 2 certification audit
- Make the certification decision
- Issue or sign the ISO certificate
- Perform surveillance or recertification audits
One Board. Eleven Standards. One Integrated Option.
Every standard below is built on the same High-Level Structure, which is why they integrate cleanly — and why our flagship recommendation for most organisations is a single Integrated Management System.
Integrated Management System
One system, one audit cycle — quality, environment and occupational health & safety governed together.
Quality Management System
The world's most widely adopted management standard — consistent products, satisfied customers, controlled processes.
Environmental Management System
Manage environmental aspects, meet compliance obligations and prove it to regulators and customers.
Occupational Health & Safety Management
A systematic approach to preventing injury and ill health — and to proving a safe workplace to clients and regulators.
Information Security Management System
Protect confidentiality, integrity and availability of information — and satisfy clients, regulators and cyber-insurers.
Food Safety Management System
HACCP-based food safety across the whole chain — from primary production to the plate.
Energy Management System
Measure, manage and continually improve energy performance — with the data to prove it.
Anti-Bribery Management System
Demonstrate reasonable and proportionate anti-bribery controls to boards, regulators and international partners.
IT Service Management System
Deliver IT services to agreed levels with a certified service management system aligned to ITIL practice.
Business Continuity Management System
Keep critical operations running through disruption — and show clients and regulators that you can.
Educational Organisations Management System
For schools, universities and training providers: a management system centred on learners and their outcomes.
From First Meeting to Certificate: Seven Phases
Six phases are IBEC services. One — the certification audit — belongs entirely to the independent certification body. Typical programmes run 3 to 6 months depending on size, scope and the number of standards.
- 01IBEC service
Discovery & Gap Assessment
1–2 weeks - 02IBEC service
System Design & Documentation
3–6 weeks - 03IBEC service
Implementation & Workforce Training
4–10 weeks - 04IBEC service
Internal Audit & Management Review
2–3 weeks - 05IBEC service
Pre-Certification Readiness Audit
1 week - 06Certification body
Certification Audit — Stage 1 & Stage 2
Set by the certification body - 07IBEC service
Surveillance & Continual Improvement
Years 1–3 and beyond
Who Does What
The same table appears in every proposal we issue.
| Activity | IBECSolutions & services | Certification BodyIndependent · audits & issues |
|---|---|---|
| Gap assessment, roadmap and proposal | ||
| Management system design and documentation | ||
| Implementation support and workforce training | ||
| Internal audit and management review facilitation | ||
| Pre-certification readiness audit | ||
| Certification body selection and audit scheduling | ||
| Stage 1 and Stage 2 certification audits | ||
| Certification decision and issue of the certificate | ||
| Annual surveillance and three-year recertification audits | ||
| Support between audits: internal audits, updates, refresher training |
Built for Regulated, Tendered and Audited Industries
One Board for the Organisation and Its People
Integrated by design
We recommend and build Integrated Management Systems wherever more than one standard applies — fewer documents, one audit calendar, one management review.
Your people, certified too
The internal auditors and implementers we train can be enrolled through IBEC for personnel certification examined and awarded by our independent Certification Partner.
Certification-body neutral
We help you select an independent certification body on scope, accreditation and cost — we do not sell you one, and we take no commission from one.
Bilingual delivery
Documentation, training and audit support in English and Arabic, across the GCC, MENA and beyond.
Readiness audited by a lead auditor
Before the certification body arrives, an IBEC lead auditor runs a full mock Stage 1 and Stage 2 so nothing is a surprise.
Support after the certificate
Annual internal audits, surveillance preparation and recertification readiness in year three — certification is a cycle, not an event.
Questions Organisations Ask First
Tell Us the Standard. We Will Map the Rest.
A proposal request takes two minutes. Our enterprise team responds within one business day with a scoping call and a fixed-fee gap assessment.