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AC · 5 practicesAcquisition Management: Decide to acquire, select a supplier, agree the technical content, accept and close.
The Intermediate profile adds acquisition management. A VSE that buys a subsystem or a service is still accountable for the delivered system, so the acquisition leaves its own evidence.
When the firm buys part of the system, does it control what it buys?
The Intermediate profile adds acquisition management. A VSE that buys a subsystem or a service is still accountable for the delivered system, so the acquisition leaves its own evidence.
What good looks like
Every practice in this theme has a named owner, a dated artefact and a recorded answer to its questions.
What goes wrong
The theme fails when the artefacts exist but nobody can produce them on request, or when the practice is claimed from memory with no record.
The 5 practices in this group
| Ref | Practice | Process | Basis | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC-01 | Decide to acquire rather than build | Acquisition Management | public-record | 3 |
| AC-02 | Select the supplier on stated criteria | Acquisition Management | series-structure | 3 |
| AC-03 | Agree the technical content of the contract | Acquisition Management | our-reading | 3 |
| AC-04 | Monitor the supplier and accept deliverables | Acquisition Management | series-structure | 3 |
| AC-05 | Close the acquisition and integrate the result | Acquisition Management | our-reading | 3 |
Work the process, not the document
Open one practice, answer its three questions, and attach the evidence it names. Then move to the next. The process is complete when every row has a named owner, a dated artefact and a recorded answer to the questions. That is a higher bar than a policy, and a lower bar than a certification.
The paid kit carries the same rows with the owner, due date and status columns already in place, and a dated plan that sequences the six groups across the 120 days to the planning date.
The transition kit, USD 149 one off.
The 40-practice register, the 120-item evidence index, the dated plan and the board brief, as PDF, CSV and XLSX. Five labelled rows are free on the specimen page.