Governed AI Procurement Playbook

Whitepaper

A practical procurement playbook for governed AI.

This whitepaper helps buyers evaluate AI systems for high-trust settings. It explains how to ask for traceability, source grounding, access controls, model evaluation, human oversight, bilingual readiness, accessibility and implementation support.

What the playbook covers

It covers five decision gates: mission fit, data readiness, governance and risk, technical integration, and adoption capacity. Each gate includes evaluation questions that can be reused in procurement documents, workshops and vendor interviews.

Why it matters

Organizations that buy AI only as software risk acquiring systems they cannot safely deploy. A governed procurement process treats AI as a socio-technical system: people, policy, data, security, training and measurement all matter.