Assesments products

OFFI® Reviews exclusively uses Expert assesments to rate products. This assesses products for office or learning environments in eight different sub-areas:

Learn the meaning of the different product assessment criteria here

An Expert rating product is carried out in accordance with the international standard ISO 19011 ‘Guidelines for conducting audits of management systems’ with its own product-specific developed test methods for office products, where OFFI Test initiates an Expert rating for a product depending on up-to-dateness and necessity. The number of Expert ratings for a given product and the intervening period or periods is also determined exclusively by OFFI Test. This ensures that the product manufacturer cannot prepare for an audit or contact with auditors which results in reliable data.

Every Expert rating for the assessment of a product is always carried out in the same standardised manner. Only the frequency, whether ad hoc or continuous with sampling, and the reporting of this differ. The diagram below shows the differences.

Every report is easily understood by everyone due to the use of icons. Below is an example of a report for a fictitious product with a score of 4 times 6.0 and 4 times 8.0, i.e. an average score of 7.0:

Product X was last assessed on day Y and date Z. The average score on the assessment criteria is 7 and composed of:

Criterion	Rating	Explanation	Manufacturer response
		As an example, a score of 6.0 for quality (0.1 to 10 possible)	-
		As an example, a score of 6.0 for installation and guarantee (0.1 to 10 possible)	-
		As an example, a score of 6.0 for laws and regulations (0.1 to 10 possible)	-
		As an example, a score of 6.0 for voor ergonomics (0.1 to 10 possible)	-
		As an example, a score of 8.0 for voor design (0.1 to 10 possible)	-
		As an example, a score of 8.0 for voor innovation (0.1 to 10 possible)	-
		As an example, a score of 8.0 for environment (0.1 to 10 possible)	-
		As an example, a score of 8.0 for price (0.1 to 10 possible)	-

To make products that are continuously positively assessed immediately recognisable even without viewing the ratings, they may use 'OFFI® audited PRODUCT' logo.
Only adequately rated products receive a distinctive logo where the value of the ratings together determine the level the product achieves. As an additional requirement: no scope can be rated lower than a 6. For a average score higher than 6, the logo with ‘bronze’, for higher than 7 with ‘silver’ and for 8 or higher with ‘gold’.

If a product has been assessed and no ongoing monitoring programme has been initiated for one or more assessment criteria, the average score of the product is reported.

All ratings on a scale from 0 to 10 with the following meaning:

Icon	Rating / Score	Kwalificatie
	10	excellent
	9 - 9.9	very good
	8 - 8.9	good
	7 - 7.9	more than sufficient
	6 - 6.9	satisfactory
	5 - 5.9	questionable / weak
	4 - 4.9	insufficient
	3 - 3.9	highly insufficient
	2 - 2.9	poor
	1.0 - 1.9	very poor
	0.1 - 0.9	extremely poor

A reviewed product is immediately recognisable by the 'OFFI® reviewed PRODUCT' logo.

The review of the product took place in the past. A more recent review could be a more positive or more negative review depending on its properties and those of similar products.
If the manufacturer of the product has provided a motivated written response to a score, this will also be published.