Glossary

This glossary should assist you with some of the commonly used abbreviations found within the tendering process. If you come across anything which is not explained in our glossary please email tracker@bipsolutions.com and we will email you back with the explanation where possible and also consider adding it to the list below:

A

ABC - Authorities Buying Consortium

B

BEM - Business Excellence Model

BiP - BiP Solutions Ltd

BQF - British Quality Foundation

BQS - Better Quality Services

BV - Best Value

C

CBC - Central Buying Consortium

CBI - Confederation of British Industry

CFQ - Competing for Quality

CIPFA - Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy

CIPS - Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply

CN - Combined Nomenclature

COI - Central Office of Information

CPC - Central Product Classification (Codes)

CPD - Consortium for Purchasing and Distribution

CPV - Common Procurement Vocabulary (Codes)

CRE - Commission for Racial Equality

D

DCA - Department for Constitutional Affairs

DCMS - Department for Culture, Media and Sport

DE - Defense Estates

DECS - Defense Electronic Commerce Service

DEFRA - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

DELTA - Direct Electronic Links for Tender Administration

DfES - Department for Education and Skills

DfID - Department for International Development

DfT - Department for Transport

DH - Department of Health

DLO - Defense Logistics Organisation

DPA - Defense Procurement Agency

DSS - Defense Suppliers Service

DStan - Defense Standardization

DTI - Department of Trade and Industry

DWP - Department for Work and Pensions

E

ECJ - European Court of Justice

EEC - European Economic Community

EFQM - European Foundation for Quality Management

ELTON - Electronic Tendering Online

ESPO - Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation

EU - European Union

F

FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions

G

GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

G-Cat - Government IT Catalogue

GPA - Government Procurement Agreement, Government Purchasing Agency (Northern Ireland)

GTC - Government Telecommunications Contract

GaAs - Galium Arsenide

GaN - Galium Nitride

GM - Ground Manoeuvre

GMLRS - Guided Multi Launch Rocket System

GMTI - Ground Moving Target Indication

GPS - Global Positioning System

GSR - General Service Respirator

H

HMC&E - HM Customs and Excise

HSE - Health and Safety Executive

HAIPE - High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryption

HAIPIS - High Assurance Internet Protocol Interoperability Specification

HALE - High Altitude Long Endurance

HCI - Human Computer Interaction

HF - High Frequency

HFI - Human Factors Integration

HFNAC - Human Factors National Advisory Committee

HI&SCS - High integrity and safety critical software

HIFAWS - High Field Asymmetric Wave Spectroscopy

HMD - Helmet Mounted Displays

HMI - Human-Machine Interface

HO - Home Office

HOT - High Operating Temperature

HOTAS - Hands on Throttle and Stick

HQ - Headquarters

HS - Human Sciences

HSW - High Speed Weapon

HUD - Head-up Display

HumInt - Human Intelligence

HUMS - Health Usage and Monitoring System

HW - Hardware

HWIL - Hardware in the Loop

I

IDeA - Improvement and Development Agency

IIP - Investors in People

IPF - Institute of Public Finance

ISO - International Standards Organization

ITT - Invitation to Tender

J

K

L

LCSG - London Contracts and Supplies Group

LEC - Local Enterprise Company

LGA - Local Government Association

LGCQ - Local Government Competing for Quality

M

MEAT - Most Economically Advantageous Tender

MOD - Ministry of Defense

N

NAfW - National Assembly for Wales

NAMSA - NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency

NAO - National Audit Office

NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

NCAGE - NATO Commercial and Government Entity (Codes)

NHS - National Health Service

NHS PASA - NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency

NIO - Northern Ireland Office

NIPRO - Nomenclature of Industrial Products (Codes)

NPSLG - National Procurement Strategy for Local Government

NSV - National Supplier Vocabulary (Codes)

NUTS - Nomenclature of Statistical Territorial Units

O

ODPM - Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

OGC - Office of Government Commerce

OGCbs - OGCbuying.solutions

OJEU - Official Journal of the European Union (formerly OJEC)

P

PFI - Private Finance Initiative

PIN - Periodic Indicative Notice, Prior Information Notice

PPP - Public Private Partnership

Q

R

RAF - Royal Air Force

RN - Royal Navy

S

SBS - Small Business Service

SMEs - Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

SOLACE - Society of Local Authority Chief Executives

SOPO - Society of Procurement Officers in Local Government

T

TEC - Training and Enterprise Council

TTA - Teacher Training Agency

TUPE - Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)

TURER - Transfer of Undertakings (Retention of Employment Rights)

U

UN - United Nations

V

W

WEAG - Western European Armaments Group

WTO - World Trade Organization

W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

X

Y

Z