Plan Procurement Management
Process
Documenting project purchasing decisions, specifying the approach, and identifying potential sellers.
When performed: Once or at predefined points
Process group: Planning
Knowledge Area: Procurement Management
Outputs Created
- Procurement management plan*
- Procurement strategy*
- Bid documents*
- Procurement statement of work*
- Source selection criteria*
- Make-or-buy decisions*
- Independent cost estimates*
Outputs Updated
- Stakeholder register
- Risk register
- Requirements documentation
- Requirements traceability matrix
- Milestone list
- Lessons learned register
- Organizational process assets updates
- Information on qualified sellers
Inputs
- Project charter*
- Business case
- Benefits management plan
- Scope management plan
- Quality management plan
- Resource management plan
- Scope baseline
- Milestone list
- Project team assignments
- Requirements documentation
- Requirements traceability matrix
- Resource requirements
- Stakeholder register
- Risk register
- Enterprise environmental factors
- Marketplace conditions
- Products, services, and results that are available in the marketplace
- Sellers, including their past performance or reputation
- Typical terms and conditions for products, services, and results or for the specific industry
- Unique local requirements, such as regulatory requirements for local labor or sellers
- Legal advice regarding procurements
- Contract management systems, including procedures for contract change control
- Established multi-tier supplier system of prequalified sellers based on prior experience
- Financial accounting and contract payments system
- Organizational process assets
- Preapproved seller lists
- Formal procurement policies, procedures, and guidelines
- Contract types
Tools & Techniques
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