ICONTEC is a Colombian multinational concerned about sustainable development of organizations in the continent that works since 1963 to promote standardization, conformity assessment, metrology and quality management in Colombia, Central America and South America.

As National Standardization Body, we represent Colombia before international and regional standardization bodies such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and the Pan American Standards Commission (Comisión Panamericana de Normas de la Cuenca del Pacífico - COPANT).

We are also an active member of the most important regional and international standardization bodies, which allows the organization to participate in the definition and development of international and regional standards.

ICONTEC is a certification body with global coverage thanks to its link with the International Certification Network, IQNet (global network which include the most important certification bodies). 

In the continent, the scope of ICONTEC covers Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras,  Panamá, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic; this makes the institute the best certification and training services option for companies of all sizes and sectors.

ICONTEC has an significant international recognition for being accredited by the National Accreditation Board of ANSI - ASQ (ANAB), the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) from the United States, the German Accreditation Association (TGA), the National Standardization Institute (Instituto Nacional de Normalización - INN) from Chile, and the National Institute for Competence Defense and Intellectual Property Protection (Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual - INDECOPI) from Peru.

 

OUR WORK

 

Standardization

At ICONTEC, as the National Standardization Body, we coordinate the preparation of technical guides, standards and other normative documents applicable in Colombia. For this purpose, there are approximately 250 standardization committees in which industry, consumers, academy and general interests, as well as other stakeholders, participate, in order to establish the fundamental requirements related to quality, safety, security, health care and environment, for products, services, processes and systems.

 

Certification

In ICONTEC we work jointly with the business sector in Colombia and the other countries where we are present in quality management system certification with which the companies find facilities and opportunities for their trade activities with other countries, this makes of our certifications a passport to competitiveness.

With our link to the International Certification Network, IQNet  -global network including the most important certification bodies– we are a certification body with global coverage and our certificates are placed as the best alternative for the internationalization of products and services.

Nowadays we are leaders in management system certification in Colombia and we develop this activity in countries such as Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, El Salvador, United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, Venezuela and Dominican Republic

 

Education programs

We offer a flexible portfolio through education cycles in which you will have different options or combinations of diploma courses and programs always respecting academic and technical coherence.

With ICONTEC you have short, medium and long term education options in advanced and basic deep cycles expressed in the following modules:

-Quality management	-Small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
-Integrated management systems	-Service quality for small retailers
-Quality for health sector	-Agro food sector
-Quality management for public sector	-Environmental management and sustainable development
-Quality for education sector	-Information security management systems
-Module of quality management system for institutions offering educative services at pre-school, primary and secondary levels.	-Occupational health and industrial security management systems
-Module of quality management system for institutions offering educative services for human work and development.

 

Health care accreditation

Health accreditation is a specific system to assess health service quality and a tool to promote continuous improvement and service focused on users of health services and their families.

The cores of health accreditation are patient safety, humanization, technology management and risk approach. Fulfillment of quality standards in these cores allows the health institutions to generate a continuous process of cultural transformation contributing to many purposes: to provide better information to users, make decisions based on management guides, promote the respect and preserve the dignity of all human beings interacting in the health institutions, improve work conditions, increase interdisciplinary dialogue, encourage good administrative and clinic practices, strengthen competitiveness, and develop quality indicators that measure the result of clinical management, among others.