National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (A Constituent Board of Quality Council of India) Qci Ref: NABL/GeM/08-18/001 August 14, 2018 Subject: Recognition of Test / Calibration / RMP reports from NABL accredited laboratories / entities & System of ULR (Unique Lab Report) Number for NABL accredited laboratories / entities. Dear Sir / Madam It's my immense pleasure to share with you about the GeM recognition of reports issued by NABL accredited facilities. Indian Government has created one stop Government e-Marketplace (GeM) to facilitate online procurement of common use Goods & Services required by various Government Departments / Organizations / PSUs. GeM will enhance transparency, efficiency and speed in public procurement. It will also provide the tools of e-bidding and reverse e-auction as well as demand aggregation to facilitate the government users to achieve the best value for the money. One of the requirements of uploading the products for sale through GeM portal is that the product information should be accompanied by a test report issued by NABL accredited laboratory. To authenticate the test reports, GeM has sought the co-operation of NABL in getting the data on test reports mapped by the claim made by the seller. To facilitate such mapping, the first step is to identify all the Test, Calibration and RMP reports issued by NABL accredited laboratories / entities for which the following system has been devised: 1) 2) | 3) 4) There will be 18-digits ULR (Unique Lab Report) number on all the reports issued by CABs including testing, calibration and RMP facilities. This number will be in addition to the Report number devised by the individual CAB, This number will appear on all reports issued by testing, calibration and RMP facilities for their accredited scope of accreditation, ULR will be as follows - ) First six digits (1% to 6” digits) will be the Accreditation Certificate no. issued by NABL e.g. TCO575, C1140, RC0007 ete ) Next two digits (7" to 8” digit) will be the calendar year during which the report has been issued e.9. for period 01 January 2018 to 31 December 2016, this number will be 18 ©) Next one digit (9" digit) will be applicable for muttlocation laboratories under the same Accreditation certificate number. This could be 0/1/2/3/4/5 depending upon the report issued by location(s) of a Laboratory. 0 stands for main lab, 1 for location-1 etc. d) Next eight digits (10" to 17” digits) will be running number of the test/calibration reports starting from 00000001 to 99999999 in a given calendar year. This number will restart from 00000001 on 1 of January of every year. ©) Last digit (18” digit) wil be For ‘Fis to be used when all the tests/calibration reported are covered under scope of accreditation. ‘P’is lo be used when report contains a mix of accredited and non-accredited tests/calibration with identiication as per NABL norms The example of above 18 digit and how it will appear on the reports issued by CAB is as follows - ULR - T.C057518000000154F indicates that a Lab with Accreditation Certificate no. TC-0575 has issued a report in year 2018 from its main location with a running number of 00000164 and this report is having all results covered under NABL scope of accreditation. Pp Conta NABL House, Plot 45, Sector 44; Gurugram 122 002, Haryana, India Tel. No.: +91-124-4679700 (30 lines) + Fax: +91-124-4679799 + Website: www.nabl-indla.org.The above system must be operational from 1 September 2018. Accredited laboratories shall mention the above ULR Number on all the reports issued by them from 1% September 2018 onwards. Cooperation in this regard is solicited. In case of any clarification, please feel free to ask Sh. Alok Jain, Jt. Director, NABL at [email protected]. org. Sincerely Prater (Anil Relia) CEO