AQAP - Allied Quality Assurance Publication. NATO's standardization documents specify the requirements regarding the supply quality system, set forth by at least half of the NATO countries (the STANAG agreement). These are documents, which specify the requirements for military supplies' contract. They do not specify the requirements for a good or process. The legal basis of AQAP requirements are NATO's standardization documents -STANAG 4107.

When is it worth implementing the system?

Possession of an AQAP certificate (Allied Quality Assurance Publication) is required in enterprises, which manufacture goods or render services within the frames of the Government Quality Assurance process (GQA). However, according to MON's (Ministry of Defense) policy, an AQAP certificate may be demanded from suppliers rendering their services or producing for the Military. This is why it is worth implementing the AQAP system, if the company is interested in producing for and supplying the Military, in the case of willingness to acquire new contracts, or to maintain the previous deliveries for the Military. The AQAP standard will be demanded from all companies cooperating with the military more and more often.  

Most frequent prerequisites for implementing the AQAP system

Both the AQAP 210 standard and AQAP's documentation is a supplement, extension of the ISO 9001 standard in the field of the requirements regarding the quality system of supplies for the Military.

The most frequent prerequisites of implementing the system are, among others, the requirements regarding:

• limiting the risk for all stages of contract's realization,
• good's configuration management,
• the necessity to specify contacts' management in the case of negative information,
• supporting the process of Government Quality Assurance,
• concentration on customers' needs.

• construction (companies, which build for the Military),
• food industry (companies supplying the Military),
• arms dealing industry (companies, which manufacture firearms, military equipment, support equipment, etc. for the Military),
• companies, which render services for the Military, etc.