CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) models are collections of best practices that help organizations improve their processes. Following the success of CMMI models for development organizations, the need was identified for a CMMI model addressing the acquisition environment. The CMMI-ACQ development team, consisting of members from government, industry, and the SEI, gathered input from those who piloted and reviewed the preliminary report and created CMMI-ACQ, V1.2. This model is included in the CMMI Product Suite.

    The CMMI-ACQ, V1.2 model is a collection of best practices that is generated from the CMMI V1.2 Architecture and Framework. This collection includes acquisition best practices from government and industry. CMMI-ACQ is based on the CMMI Model Foundation or CMF (i.e., model components common to all CMMI models and constellations), the CMMI Acquisition Module [Bernard 2005], and the Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model (SA-CMM) [SEI 2002]. CMMI-ACQ also incorporates work by several acquisition organizations to adapt the Development constellation for use in an acquisition organization.

Phase-Wise Methodology