Eskom Procurement Book 2015

GLOSSARY

Provisioning:

The process of determining the range and quantity of items (such as spares and repair parts, special tools, test equipment and support equipment) required for the maintenance of equipment for a specified period of service. It includes the identification of items and arrangements with the supplier for their supply when needed and/or stocking of these if there are indications that they may not be easily available when required. See also Design specification and Technical specification. Constitutes technical acceptance, with or without minor technical reservations, of goods and equipment supplied to, or installed on, the buyer’s site. Acceptance should be confirmed by a certificate of provisional acceptance. The date of the provisional acceptance marks the start of the guarantee period and signifies a transfer of property rights from the supplier to the buyer: See also Acceptance and Final acceptance. For tendering, publicity is secured by means of procurement notices on business opportunities as well as invitations to tender within the public tender procedure. Publicity can be secured locally and internationally by selecting corresponding media. State, regional and local authorities and bodies governed by public law.

Provisional acceptance:

Publicity:

Public authorities:

Public contracts:

Orders financed from public funds.

Public funds:

Funds of the buyer originating from state or community budgets (at least partially).

Purchaser:

See Buyer and Contracting authority.

Quality:

The term covering any and every characteristic, property and/ or performance of a product or service that can be evaluated to determine whether the product or service meets the specified requirements. Aplanned and systematic pattern of all actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that the product or services will perform satisfactorily. It may consist of the buyer satisfying himself that the system of quality control the supplier has instituted is satisfactory by examining or evaluating it. Alternatively, the buyer or his agent can undertake inspection of the product, in the process of production or at the pre-shipment stage monitoring the implementation of the services by verifying results. See also Quality control.

Quality assurance:

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