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You are here: Procurement > Tools for procurementThe following resources are offered here to help you with your procurement tasks:
Register of Open Branded ProductsThe Open Group's Register of Open Branded Products
lists all products that carry the Open Brand.
Sample documentsExemplar Terms and Conditions for various forms of contract are available here. They are avalable in Word 6, RTF and PDF. These documents are offered on an AS-IS basis for use as templates for your own procurement documents. They will need modification to suit your specific business needs, local law, and many details such as payment terms. The documents are freely available, however we do request that you complete the registration form before downloading them. BooksThe Business Value of Open Systems; Strassmann, Paul [ISBN 0-9620413-2-7] Managing Risk in Open Systems Procurement; DTI et al [ISBN 1-85554-650-7] buyit@itworld.demon.co.uk Change Management through Open Systems; Jacobs, Christopher [1-85912-011-3] ogpubs@opengroup.org Change Management and the Momentum of Open Ssytems; Jacobs,C & Placko, M [0-13-353483-9] ogpubs@opengroup.org UK National Health Service Standards in Procurement; stephelp@imc.exec.nhs.uk Conformance CheckerWritten in C by Andrew Josey of The Open Group's testing business unit, ckvers lets you check a target system for conformance to various product standards from The Open Group, POSIX, ISO and FIPS. Sample Output from ckvers:
Other available test tools at The Open GroupThese can be downloaded from here Resources outside this siteFederal Sources, of Washington DC, track details of all US Federal procurements. They also have information services to provide various information, such as budget allocations, contact information, etc. UK BuyIT Initiative - Full information on the United Kingdom's Department of Trade and Industry funded program. This site has a great deal of valuable advice and includes the complete text (in Word 6 format) of the handbook.
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