Procurement

The FreeBalance Purchasing module provides most purchasing functionality necessary by a government organization. However, it does not cover the issuance and evaluation of requests for proposal nor does it support stores where items that are needed by users are located in inventory.

Procurement is a superset of purchasing that includes the acquisition of complex products and services such as turnkey solutions. These acquisitions require a more complex proposal and assessment functionality during the buying stages and more complex acceptance and payment functionality than Purchasing.