Vendor Organization

Definition

Vendor Organization

an organization that sells Commercial-Of-The-Shelf (COTS) products (e.g., systems, applications, or components) to the development organization

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Vendor Organization is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Organization
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical responsibilities of a Vendor Organization are to:

• Provide information about its COTS products.
• Demonstrate its products to the development organization.
• Accept change requrests about its products.

Guidelines

• There can easily be multiple vendor organizations on a project or program.
• It is possible for the same business to act as both a vendor organization and a subcontractor organization.
• The vendor organization typically inherits the common team guidelines from the organization process component.