ECSA Consulting Organisation (ACO) is a company or organisation which is accredited by ECE to carry out ECSA compliant consulting services, facilitate self-assessments, offer compliance checks and use ECSA tools for vendor selection.
An ECSA-ACO is granted the right to:
- Act as a EuroCloud Star Audit Accredited Consulting Organisation (ACO)
- Offer ECSA related consulting for companies that want to perform an ECSA Self-Assessment.
- Offer ECSA related consulting assignments for companies that want to achieve the ECSA certification.
- Use the ECSA online assessment services at a reduced price.
- Nominate an unlimited number of individuals to become accredited as Consultants (AC). They have to be associated/employed by the organisation named in this contract (but not other organisations or subsidiaries, parent organisations, branch offices or any other organisation).
- Consultants with an active and valid accreditation who are associated to the ACO receive a full exemption from the ECSA annual membership fee.
- Be accredited additionally as a Training organisation (ATO) at a reduced annual membership fee of 50%.
- Nominate organisations to become accredited as Consulting-, Training- or Auditing Organisations (ACO, ATO, and AAO) and therefore receive a referral-fee.
- Nominate one person to represent the ACO on the ECSA Advisory Board. This board will advise ECE in the further development of the ECSA.
- Offer ECSA related training courses (also in local language) for consultants to become AC (trainings has to be carried out by an senior Consultant)