develop consensus standards for use by TNI's programs. This group has a support role in assisting other programs with activities such as guidance and standards interpretation.
fosters the generation of data of known and documented quality is through the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, or NELAP. The purpose of this program is to establish and implement a program for the accreditation of environmental laboratories.
is to establish and maintain a national PT program to support TNI’s National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, and other activities.
Field Activities Program (NEFAP) Executive Committee is to establish and implement an accreditation program for field sampling and measurement organizations (FSMOs).
Audit Sample Program is to develop consensus standards for the manufacture and analysis of audit samples for source emission testing.
on a variety of topics of interest to the environmental measurement community. TNI also hosts two regularly scheduled meetings per year, typically in January and August. Both are a week long and involve open meetings of TNI committees as well as training courses and other special sessions.Request for Proposal for Technical Guidance Document
Date Posted: 9-11-2008
The NELAC Institute (TNI) is a not-for-profit voluntary consensus organization whose mission is to foster the generation of environmental laboratory data of known and documented quality.
TNI is interested in contracting with an individual or organization to develop a guidance document for one particular requirement of the 2008 TNI accreditation standards. This document is a pilot project and may lead to similar requests for guidance documents to be written for further subjects in the future.
Proposals must be received at TNI by midnight, EDT September 28.
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Technical Guidance Document (PDF, 30KB)