(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The judges panel for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) chose 15 organizations to proceed to Site Visit Review, the final stage of the evaluation process for the nation’s highest award for organizational performance excellence.

The judges met this month to review scoring data from the first two stages of the evaluation process for the annual Baldrige Award. The panel will reconvene in November 2016 to review findings about the site-visited organizations’ performance and determine which to recommend to the Secretary of Commerce to be named Baldrige Award recipients. The awardees will be honored at a ceremony during the annual Quest for Excellence conference, April 2–5, 2017, in Baltimore.

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