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Type Good practice 
Lesson Learned Statement Cultivate COTS knowledge and expertise in your procurement organization. 
Issue/Risk factor Procurement expertise, if properly applied to knowledge of COTS, can be very helpful 
Impact on cost unknown 
Impact on quality unknown 
Impact on schedule unknown 
Type of data qualitative 
Recommended action Educate procurement people about COTS 
Comments/Story see text 
Life-cycle Phase Throughout lifecycle 
Recommended audience Project manager 
Aspect Business 
Object Technology 
Type of system diverse 
Type of company government  
Number of COTS per project one to many 
Type of COTS diverse 
Date Created 7/2/2003 
Date added 12/10/2003 
Name Tricia Oberndorf 
Organization SEI 
e-mail po@sei.cmu.edu 
Reference "COTS-Based Systems Lessons Learned Web Pages" (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cbs/lessons/) 
Link docs/Procurement.doc 
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