Plan Procurements process is about looking at ALL of the work involved in your project, and deciding which ones are to be given out to vendors.
Once these are identified, next 2 processes of Project Procurement knowledge area are going to be performed for each of these contracts – that is, conducting and closing procurements.
For example, Kathy from Landscaping project may have one contract for laying of jogging tracks, one for supplying exotic plants and one for getting manual labor with a contractor.
We need a ton of things for this planning
There are quite a lot of them. But they are very logical, and you can remember them easily.
Considering procurement to beginning of a project, we need all those documents that are available at the beginning of the project.
Which are easy to remember.
Project charter, business case, benefits management plan – they contain the information about project components that are needed. At the high level we can see whether we have internal capability to produce them or we need to procure from outside.
Then we need a bunch of plans that are relevant to procurement, let us see which are they.
- Scope management plan – we’ve established the process of gathering scope in this plan.
- Quality management plan – we need to understand how quality measurements and assurance processes impact our needs of procurement.
- Resource management plan – do we have the ability and plan to gather and manage resources needed for those components of the project that may be outsourced?
Apart from these we also need scope baseline – which contains project scope statement, WBS and WBS dictionary to understand about ALL of the work expected to be done in the project. And this includes the work that would be outsourced (or, ‘procured’).
Once the 
