[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1, Parts 0 to 299]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR200.110]

[Page 373]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
 CHAPTER II--NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 200--POLICIES, SERVICES, PROCEDURES, AND FEES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 200.110  Priorities and time of completion.

    Schedule work assignments for calibrations and other tests will 
generally be made in the order in which confirmed requests are received. 
However, Government work may be given priority. On the regular services, 
the workload is usually such that the turn-around interval, between the 
date a customer's apparatus is received and the date it is prepared for 
return shipment, will be not more than 45 days. Some types of 
instruments may require considerably longer, particularly if their 
abnormal behavior requires reruns to check reliability. The customer who 
can spare the instrument for only a short time can usually arrange by 
letter or telephone call for shipping it to NIST just as the assigned 
starting date approaches. A notice will be sent acknowledging receipt of 
the customer's standard and/or purchase order. If both a confirmed 
purchase order (or equivalent) and the apparatus have been received, 
estimates of the completion date and the calibration fee will be sent 
upon request.