Artifact: COTS Package Screening Criteria and Rationale
This accumulates and organizes the set of measurable criteria against which vendor offerings are initially evaluated and, ultimately, accepted or rejected for consideration as part of a solution.
Domains: Requirements
Purpose

The purpose of the COTS Package Screening Criteria and Rationale is to record the analytical hierarchy of measurable criteria used in evaluating the alternative solutions to the stakeholder's business and system requirements. It provides a single set of selection criteria for COTS packages and vendors to provide the functions and capabilities required by the stakeholders.

The COTS Package Screening Criteria and Rationale accumulates and organizes information sufficient to:

  • Document preliminary expectations regarding vendor, functional, operational, architectural, market placement, and supplemental characteristics that must be present for a COTS package to be considered as part of a solution.
  • Document rationale describing why these expectations are sufficiently critical to require all candidate COTS package to comply and how they will distinguish between candidates.
  • Identify measurable criteria that correspond to preliminary expectations.
  • Document a data-gathering strategy and any specific processes and techniques required to determine whether a COTS package meets measurable criteria.
  • Capture, in summary form, any tasks that result in a COTS package being eliminated from further consideration.
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