National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program

Welcome

The National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) provides third-party accreditation to testing and calibration laboratories. NVLAP's accreditation programs are established in response to Congressional mandates, administrative actions by the Federal Government, and requests from private-sector organizations and government agencies.

NVLAP operates an accreditation system that is compliant with ISO/IEC 17011, Conformity assessment — General requirements for accreditation bodies accrediting conformity assessment bodies, which requires that the competence of applicant laboratories be assessed by the accreditation body against all of the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025, General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories.

Events

On September 24 through 26, 2013, NVLAP will host an assessor training workshop at the Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg, MD. We have created a special webpage with information about this event, which will be updated as plans unfold. To register for the workshop, please click here.