I really don't want to be cynical about this, but preparing for and achieving the standard is all about your market/customers. It's a total hassle, maintaining records for an annual inspection from someone with a record-keeping mentality. If it's important for your business, go for it and include the necessary activities/record keeping in your business processes. If you're trying to sell to the Public Sector (anywhere), the regulated industries (Food, Pharmaceutical, etc.) you'll have to maintain those type of standards in any event - keeping the records has to be easy with electronic capture of information. You will need to add the time/cost of achieving/maintaining the standard to your basic cost of product/service - don't shrug it off as a by-product of your business activity and then pay someone to work really hard updating the records before an inspection.