Notified Body
MDC Capacity
Declining new customers
Last tried 11/2022
These are user-submitted reviews of medical device companies describing their experience working with this notified body. This includes how well-organized the notified body was, technical proficiency of the auditor, wait times and cost.
November 17th, 2022
Review by mid-size company (10-49 employees)
Wait times
QMS Audit: pending
QMS Certificate: pending
Techdoc Audit: pending
Techdoc Certificate: pending
Ratings
Comment
We do not have a possibility to work with them as they do not have any capacity.
November 2nd, 2022
Review by small company (<10 employees)
Wait times
QMS Audit: pending
QMS Certificate: pending
Techdoc Audit: pending
Techdoc Certificate: pending
Ratings
Audit Stage
Waiting for audit appointments.
March 21st, 2022
Review by small company (<10 employees)
Wait times
QMS Audit: pending
QMS Certificate: pending
Techdoc Audit: pending
Techdoc Certificate: pending
Ratings
Audit Stage
Reached out to learn about procedure.
Comment
Very friendly conversation, they accept new customers (are also obliged to do so), acceptance can of course still not be guaranteed, especially due to capacity in the much requested software area. Once we submit the TD, it takes 4-5 months to audit due to multiple runs until they are satisfied with it. Their experience is that the TD are usually not good enough for MDR, hence this process. They have no problem at all if we do the 13485 at BerlinCert, they prefer to take new customers who are already at a Notified Body as they are better prepared - it will just make higher costs for us due to two audits. For MDR we can expect around 20.000€ in the 1st year, their daily rate is 2.000€. He emphasized again that they are not allowed to do consulting and recommend an external consultant for that. In their experience, clients were more successful in moving from MDD to MDR if they didn't just do a gap analysis, but pretty much rebuilt the TD. mdc is focused on the mid-market, EU and Israel. We can submit a request via the download section, offer or rejection will probably come in September due to vacations.
February 28th, 2022
Review by mid-size company (10-49 employees)
Wait times
QMS Audit: 6 months
QMS Certificate: 2 months
Techdoc Audit: 5 months
Techdoc Certificate: pending
Ratings
Audit Stage
Client since 10 years MDR TD and QMS in progress
Cost
30.000€
February 28th, 2022
Review by mid-size company (10-49 employees)
Wait times
QMS Audit: pending
QMS Certificate: pending
Techdoc Audit: pending
Techdoc Certificate: pending
Ratings
Audit Stage
Clinical audit done, before rest of Tech audit and QMS audit. 4 months before clinical Audit, more than 3 months for the rest of the Tech-Audit (and still waiting). QMS Audit only planned if the clinical audit and a first positive report on the Tech Audit is performed.
Comment on Duration and Cost
No planification possible and further delayed are announced each 3 weeks.
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Important Notes
Notified bodies typically work with many different auditors, some of which are freelancers. That's one of many reasons which may lead to strongly varying reviews of the same notified body.
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As manufacturers get to choose their notified body, these reviews should help companies choose one which is fair, well-organized and technically competent.