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Procurement

Abbreviations / Acronyms / Synonyms:

Definitions:

  The process associated with obtaining products or services, typically through contracts involving the expenditure of financial resources, as well as to products or services that may be obtained on a cost-free basis via other mechanisms (e.g., the downloading of public domain software products and other software products with limited or no warranty, such as those commonly known as freeware or shareware from the commercial Internet).
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2022 under acquisition from NSA/CSS Policy 3-4 - adapted

  Process of obtaining a system, product, or service.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-160v1r1 under acquisition from ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015

  Includes all stages of the process of acquiring product or services, beginning with the process for determining the need for the product or services and ending with contract completion and closeout.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-161r1-upd1 [11/1/2024 errata update] under acquisition