A set of rules or principles to guide decisions and achieve outcomes. A statement of the overall intentions and direction relating to the procurement practice and performance of the organisation, as formally expressed by top management

Also known as e-procurement software, simplify the procurement process through a cloud-based software solution.

Services to engage in research and innovation development.

The team of people responsible for taking decisions within a PPI project. This may be a subset of the project team or sit above it, and will normally include individuals representing different functions within the organisation. It may also involve external experts or stakeholders such as citizens and users of the product or service being purchased.

A document setting out an authority’s current or future procurement needs. A prospectus may be published as part of preliminary market consultations, in order to give suppliers advance notice of upcoming requirements and relevant background information about the authority.

Protective clothing is clothing designed to protect either the wearer's body or other items of clothing from hazards such as heat, chemicals and infection.

Public procurement refers to the purchase by governments and state-owned enterprises of goods, services and works.

A EMCC responsible for answering calls to an emergency telephone number for police, firefighting and ambulance services.

Is a public procurement in which public procurers act as a launch customer – also called early adopter – of innovative goods or services that are close or even already available on the market in small quantity but not yet deployed on a large scale commercial basis. PPI does not include the procurement of R&D but may include before the purchase of a test to verify if solutions on the market can conform with the deployment requirements, i.e. conformance testing

Cooperative arrangement between two or more public and private sectors, typically of a long-term nature.