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TickITplus
TickITplus is a certification program for companies in the Software Development and IT Sectors and combines industry best practice with International IT Standards. Building on the major success of the TickIT scheme both in the UK and Sweden, TickITplus is now an International scheme that adds a Capability Dimension (Foundation, Bronze, Silver, Gold & Platignum) to the existing TickIT scheme and provides the option of incorporating other standards (ISO 20000-1 IT Service Management, ISO 27001 Information Security Management) into the certification in addition to the pre-requisite of ISO 9001.

History
TickITplus was first introduced in 2010 at a Foundation Level and its predecessor scheme TickIT was phased out by the 1st December 2014. Many of the companies that were previously certified to ISO 9001 and TickIT transitioned to ISO 9001 and TickITplus Foundation during this period. Since that time the options of including ISO 20000-1 and ISO 27001 to the scheme have been added and the availability of lower level maturity levels (Bronze and Silver) were then formally launched in 2015. The TickITplus scheme now developed and administered by the The International TickITplus Association whose membership includes a wide range of stakeholders from across the ICT and quality sectors. The scheme has a registered website (www.tickitplus.org) which is managed and administered by GASQ who also manage and administer professional membership of the scheme (assessors and practitioners) and maintain a register of certified companies to the scheme.