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Provisioning:
The process of determining the range and quantity of items (such
as spares and repair parts, special tools, test equipment and
support equipment) required for the maintenance of equipment for
a specified period of service. It includes the identification of items
and arrangements with the supplier for their supply when needed
and/or stocking of these if there are indications that they may not
be easily available when required. See also Design specification
and Technical specification.
Provisional
acceptance:
Constitutes technical acceptance, with or without minor technical
reservations, of goods and equipment supplied to, or installed on,
the buyer’s site. Acceptance should be confirmed by a certificate
of provisional acceptance. The date of the provisional acceptance
marks the start of the guarantee period and signifies a transfer of
property rights from the supplier to the buyer: See also Acceptance
and Final acceptance.
Publicity:
For tendering, publicity is secured by means of procurement notices
on business opportunities as well as invitations to tender within
the public tender procedure. Publicity can be secured locally and
internationally by selecting corresponding media.
Public authorities:
State, regional and local authorities and bodies governed by public
law.
Public contracts:
Orders financed from public funds.
Public funds:
Funds of the buyer originating from state or community budgets
(at least partially).
Purchaser:
See Buyer and Contracting authority.
Quality:
The term covering any and every characteristic, property and/
or performance of a product or service that can be evaluated to
determine whether the product or service meets the specified
requirements.
Quality assurance:
Aplanned and systematic pattern of all actions necessary to provide
adequate confidence that the product or services will perform
satisfactorily. It may consist of the buyer satisfying himself that the
system of quality control the supplier has instituted is satisfactory by
examining or evaluating it. Alternatively, the buyer or his agent can
undertake inspection of the product, in the process of production
or at the pre-shipment stage monitoring the implementation of the
services by verifying results. See also Quality control.
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