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STQC EPS Certification

Electronic product and service certification through STQC.

Every engagement includes manual validation, a two audience report and free re-testing.

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What this actually is

STQC is the Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification directorate under MeitY. For electronic products and services sold into government, STQC certification is frequently a tender prerequisite rather than a nice to have.

The assessment covers functionality, safety, security and conformance to Indian standards. For anything web-facing there is usually a GIGW component covering accessibility and government website guidelines as well.

We prepare you, run the pre-assessment, fix what will fail, and support you through the formal evaluation.

What we go after

  • Applicable STQC scheme identification
  • Product security and conformance assessment
  • Documentation and test evidence preparation
  • Pre-assessment against the evaluation criteria
  • Remediation of findings before formal evaluation
  • GIGW conformance where the product is web-facing
  • Evaluation support through certification

How we run it

  1. 01

    Gap assessment

    We measure you against the standard as it is actually audited, not as it reads on paper.

  2. 02

    Remediation plan

    Every gap gets an owner, an effort estimate and a date. You decide what lands this quarter.

  3. 03

    Implement and evidence

    We write the policy, build the control and collect the artefact that proves it is working.

  4. 04

    Internal audit

    A dry run under audit conditions, so nothing in the real one is a surprise.

  5. 05

    Certify and maintain

    We sit on your side of the table for the audit, then keep the evidence current between cycles.

What you receive

  • Pre-assessment report against the scheme
  • Remediation plan
  • Documentation and evidence pack for evaluation
  • Support through the formal STQC process

Who needs this

Electronic product manufacturers and service providers selling into central or state government, and anyone whose tender requires STQC certification.

How long it takes

Eight to twenty weeks including the formal evaluation.

Standards this satisfies

  • STQC schemes
  • GIGW
  • CERT-In
  • Indian Standards

Why it matters

Almost nobody starts a certification because they want one. It starts because a customer will not sign without it, a regulator has asked, or a deal is sitting still while procurement waits for evidence. The commercial driver is real and it is worth being honest that it, rather than security, is usually what pays for the programme.

The security benefit is real too, but it comes from a specific place: the discipline of having to evidence that a control operated over a period, rather than that it was configured once. That is the part that changes behaviour, and it is also the part organisations consistently underestimate.

Choose how you want this delivered

Most of the price difference between quotes comes down to this one choice, and it is rarely explained. Pick one to see what it covers, what it suits and what it costs you.

Gap assessment, then we work alongside your team through remediation, internal audit and the certification audit itself. Your people do the work and own the outcome, which is what makes the management system survive after we leave. This is what most organisations should choose.

Choose this when

  • You have a team who can absorb the work alongside their day job
  • You want the capability to remain in-house afterwards
  • First certification where documentation is the main gap

Effort and cost

Moderate. The calendar is longer than a managed programme because the work competes with everyone's existing responsibilities.

Scope it yourself, before you call anyone

Answer a few questions and you get an indicative number, the working behind it and what your answers tell us. It runs in your browser, so nothing you type reaches us.

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Which framework are you going for?

What we look for, and keep finding

These are the classes of problem this work exists to surface. Not every engagement finds all of them, but these are the ones that turn up often enough to be worth naming.

  • Controls that exist on paper only

    The policy says quarterly access reviews. The evidence shows one, eighteen months ago, and it was not completed. This is the single most common audit finding across every framework.

  • Scope drawn too narrowly

    A certificate covering a subset of the business that customers assume covers all of it. Auditors check the boundary; buyers rarely do. Getting scope right is the most consequential early decision.

  • Evidence that cannot be reproduced

    A screenshot proves a control was configured on the day someone took it. A framework wants proof it operated throughout the period. Those are very different, and the gap only appears at the audit.

  • Exceptions with no expiry

    Risk accepted once, recorded, and never revisited. Over a few years these accumulate into an undocumented second control framework nobody is managing.

  • Third parties outside the boundary

    Processing carried out by a supplier who was assessed at onboarding and never since, while your obligation for their handling of your data continues regardless.

Who runs your engagement

A lead assessor who has sat on the other side of the table

Compliance work is led by an assessor who has taken organisations through certification, not by a consultant reading the standard for the first time with you. They know which findings a certification body will actually raise, which is a different list from what the standard technically says.

Questions we get asked

Do you issue the certificate?

No. STQC issues it. We prepare you so the evaluation passes, which is where most of the time and cost otherwise goes.

Often scoped alongside

Ready to scope your stqc eps certification?

Thirty minutes with a senior engineer, and you leave with a written scope and indicative effort.

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