ACQUIRER
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Information on Acquirer
The customer organisation will invariably contain an acquisition component (the acquirer) which will be responsible for the project management and systems engineering activities associated with the acquisition of the system in accordance with the user requirements. The acquirer obtains the system from the supplier and is principally responsible for all of the systems engineering activities in the Acquisition Phase, even if they do not do all the work. The acquirer's role begins at the start of the Acquisition Phase in Conceptual Design where the users' requirements are gathered and ends at the beginning of the Utilisation Phase once the system is introduced into service and the users assume responsibility for the system. The role of the acquirer will depend on the type of customer organisation: some acquirers will perform all of the activities in the Acquisition Phase (Conceptual Design, Preliminary Design, Detailed Design and Development, construction and/or Production), while others may just complete Conceptual Design and outsource the remaining activities to a prime contractor.
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