London 2012 blog

Last week, members of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) Transport team were out in force at the hallowed ground of cricket - Lord's (unless you are a Yorkshire person that is!) We were not there to play cricket but to attend an awards ceremony, representing our colleagues from the Transport team.

Why were we there? Well, the ODA Transport team, along with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and our delivery partners, have the job of delivering transport for the London 2012 Games. Together, we need to get all spectators and the Olympic Family safely and on time to the venues.

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With a team of about 50 people (and growing!), dozens of stakeholders, 12 major project areas - covering heavy rail to cycling - and a £852m budget, we must have top processes in place to deliver our transport objectives.

Over the past few months, the ODA Transport team has been working at this by developing a Quality Management System (QMS). Yesterday, our hard work was recognised when we were presented with the ISO 9001: 2000 Certification for our QMS. 

So, what does this mean? Put simply, this certificate accepts that our QMS – the system we base our processes on and use to monitor their effectiveness ­– is based on sound principles recognised around the world.

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