Concept: public procurement in the concept vocabulary

Concept URI	http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/6810
Preferred label	public procurement
Definition	The governmental process of purchasing supplies, equipment and services, or purchasing contracts to secure the provision of supplies, equipment and services, which are often sold by the private sector.
Notation
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2013-12-05
Accepted Date	2013-12-05
Not Accepted Date
Has broader	7621 (services) in gemet2/concept
Has related match	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Government_procurement
Has close match	http://data.uba.de/umt/_00018425
Source	OED (Oxford English Dictionary on Compact Disc - Second Edition) in gemet2/source RHW (Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary - Second Edition) in gemet2/source