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Procurement

Meaning in military & defence, with examples

/prəˈkjʊəmənt/nounCore term

In military & defence, procurement means: The whole process of obtaining equipment, services or works, from defining the need and running a competition to signing and managing the contract.

In Turkish: tedarik, satın alma, temin

How it is used

Defence procurement is usually long and highly regulated. Common phrases: procurement process, procurement agency, procurement programme, public procurement. A single purchasing project can also be called 'a procurement'.

Example sentences

  1. The procurement of new training aircraft is expected to take four years.

  2. She manages procurement for the army's logistics vehicles.

Common collocations

  • defence procurement
  • procurement process
  • procurement agency
  • public procurement
  • procurement programme
  • tenderA formal competition in which suppliers are invited to offer goods or services at a stated price, or one of the offers they submit.
  • contractorA company or person that signs a contract to supply goods, build something or provide services, for example to a defence ministry.
  • requirementA clear statement of what a system, product or service must do or achieve, used to guide its design, procurement and testing.
  • defence industryThe companies and organisations that design, develop, produce and support military equipment and services for armed forces.
  • offsetAn arrangement in which a foreign supplier that wins a defence contract agrees to invest in, buy from or share technology with the buying country's industry.

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