What you can expect from your Practitioner

· The minimum time you can expect a Practitioner to be ‘onsite’ is one day, but bear in mind that this would be for a small and un-complicated company. Larger and more complicated enterprises may require a combination of more Practitioners and/or more time based upon the table below

Company Size	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Small <50 employees	1	1	2
Medium <250 employees	1	2	3
Large >250 employees	2	3	3

· Your Practitioner(s) are unlikely to be able to come to any final conclusions about your assessment whilst they are onsite. They will need to take away the information, confer with the rest of the team, complete administrative tasks and report back, all of which may take a few days

· Assessments for potential ‘Silver’ companies may require more than one Practitioner

· Assessments for potential ‘Gold’ companies must have at least two Practitioners

· Your Practitioner should be able to help you with preparing a submission for an award and with your CSIP. They are a mine of useful information, so make the most of them!

• Your submission can be made by yourself or your practitioner using the standard submission template.

· The submission should be sent to Nancy Jardine [email protected]

· Once the submission is received by ADS, it will undergo an initial check to make sure that all elements have been provided and that the Q&D data works. You may well get follow up questions at this stage

· When the submission is ready, it will be forwarded to the Industry Approval Board (IAB), this is a group of industry professionals (usually from the OEMs) that will review your submission and make/or reject an SC21 award. All members of the IAB have signed an NDA

· Assuming there are no further questions from the IAB you can expect a result in circa 10 working days after the submission was forwarded to them