Procurement may be described as the process that creates, manages and fulfils contracts.
Procurement is as such concerned with:

• establishing and documenting what is required;
• soliciting from the private sector tender offers to
  • provide supplies or services;
• to construct or maintain infrastructure;
• to undertake disposals;
• awarding contracts to successful tenderers;
• monitoring that which was contracted to be provided is indeed provided; and
• paying contractors for executing their contracts.

Public sector procurement falls within the supply chain management functions under acquisition management and may involve activities such as:

• the provision of supplies, services or engineering and construction works or any combination thereof;
• the disposal of moveable property;
• the hiring or letting of anything; and
• the acquisition or granting of any rights.