[SBE] ANSI Cert for SBE Certs

[Jim Bernier]

In 2003, the SBE National Certification Committee pursued and 
received certification from the National Skills Standands Board which 
was a coalition of community, business, labor, education, and civil 
rights leaders. It was tasked with building a national voluntary 
system of skill standards, assessment, and certification.  The NSSB 
has since gone federal and that was the last we heard of it.

We continue to discuss and evaluate programs which might certify our 
certification program, such as ANSI.


Jim Bernier, CPBE, CBNT
Chairman
SBE National Certification Committee


At 10:59 PM 6/22/2010, you wrote:


>Any chance SBE will get ANSI certification for one or many of the 

>SBE certs?  I ask because I was sent to InfoComm this year to take a 

>CTS class and get my CTS cert.  The reason is that most design/build 

>RFP's/RFQ's that we deal with for the Federal gov't, gov't 

>contractors, and private companies with heavy consultant influence 

>are requiring CTS, CTS-I, or CTS-D certification by most, if not 

>all, engineering and integration staff.  We've seen this on 

>broadcast jobs, edit suites, studio upgrades, and remote trucks as 

>well as the regular AV work.  One bid required all staff who were to 

>be on-site for the project to have a form of CTS.  I talked with one 

>consulting firm about this and they said it was because of the ANSI 

>cert InfoComm got for the CTS.  This now carries more weight than 

>any SBE, SMPTE, NAB, NTSC/ATSC cert or credentials in a Federal 

>contract and can trump IEEE or FCC license, depending on scope of 

>work and role in project.  Another consultant I ran into in Vegas 

>said that more and more integrators and contractors are losing bids 

>solely on lack of a CTS cert, no matter how much broadcast 

>design/build experience they have.  There was a nasty rumor going 

>around InfoComm that by next fiscal year, all GSA design/build firms 

>will have to have a CTS on staff to maintain being on the GSA schedule.

>

>What are everyone's thoughts on this?

>

>Jeremy

>

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