Artifact: Vendor Management Plan
This describes an orderly process for managing vendor relationships.
Domains: Project Management
Purpose

The purpose of this work product is to describe an orderly process for the following:

  • Understanding and monitoring the vendor's long-term approach and plans for maintenance and support of their COTS package
  • Recording the rationale for selecting candidate vendors (for example, why certain vendors are more important than others) and the nature of all vendor relationships (for example, the depth of the relationship to be pursued)
  • Engaging in meetings and exchanges with the vendor and vendor-related groups
  • Establishing liaisons with other customers (or potential customers) of the vendor
  • Coordinating government vendor relationships with the contractor vendor relationships in cases where both exist
  • Encouraging and facilitating working relationships among the vendors
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