Chief Acquisition Officers Council

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name: Chief Acquisition Officers Council
kind: government
description: The Chief Acquisition Officers Council (CAOC) is a senior interagency forum established pursuant to Section 16
  of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 USC 1311). The Council brings together the Chief Acquisition Officers
  (CAOs), the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, and the Senior Procurement Executives of Executive
  Branch agencies to monitor and improve the federal acquisition system, promote effective business practices, deliver best-value
  products and services, and further integrity, fairness, competition, and openness in federal procurement. The CAOC publishes
  resources, charters, working group output, and guidance through Acquisition.gov, and operates alongside the Federal Acquisition
  Regulatory Council and the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP).
type: Index
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  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
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position: Consuming
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tags:
- Acquisition
- CAOC
- FAR
- Federal-Government
- GSA
- Interagency Council
- OFPP
- OMB
- Procurement
- Public Sector
tags_raw:
- Acquisition
- CAOC
- FAR
- Federal Government
- GSA
- Interagency Council
- OFPP
- OMB
- Procurement
- Public Sector
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-09-05'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: chief-acquisition-officers-council:caoc-resources
  name: Chief Acquisition Officers Council Resources
  description: The CAOC publishes its charter, membership roster, meeting summaries, working group output, and federal acquisition
    guidance through Acquisition.gov. The Council does not expose a dedicated developer API; resources are distributed as
    web pages and downloadable documents under the broader Acquisition.gov platform.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.acquisition.gov/cao-home
  tags:
  - Federal-Government
  - Procurement
  tags_raw:
  - Federal Government
  - Procurement
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  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.acquisition.gov/cao-home
  - type: Charter
    url: https://www.acquisition.gov/caoc-charter
  - type: PolicyNetwork
    url: https://www.acquisition.gov/policy-network
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- type: Website
  url: https://www.acquisition.gov
- type: Home
  url: https://www.acquisition.gov/cao-home
- type: Charter
  url: https://www.acquisition.gov/caoc-charter
- type: PolicyNetwork
  url: https://www.acquisition.gov/policy-network
- type: AcquisitionGov
  url: https://www.acquisition.gov
- type: ParentOrganization
  name: Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OMB)
  url: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
- type: USAGov
  url: https://www.usa.gov/agencies/chief-acquisition-officers-council
- type: GSAOfficeOfAcquisitionPolicy
  url: https://www.gsa.gov/policy-regulations/policy/acquisition-policy/office-of-acquisition-policy
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.acquisition.gov/Privacy_Security
- name: WorkingGroups
  type: WorkingGroups
  data:
  - name: Acquisition Workforce
  - name: Category Management
  - name: Innovation in Acquisition
  - name: Performance and Outcomes
  - name: Cybersecurity in Federal Procurement
  - name: Sustainable Acquisition
  - name: Small Business and Socioeconomic Programs
- name: Features
  type: Features
  data:
  - name: Senior-Level Interagency Forum
  - name: Federal Acquisition Policy Coordination
  - name: Working Groups and Action Teams
  - name: Acquisition Workforce Development
  - name: Best Practice Guidance
  - name: Industry Engagement
  - name: Performance Reporting
- name: UseCases
  type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Federal Acquisition Workforce Improvement
  - name: Category Management Adoption
  - name: Innovative Buying Practices
  - name: Federal Procurement Reporting
  - name: Cross-Agency Best Practice Sharing
  - name: Industry-Government Collaboration
- name: Standards
  type: Standards
  data:
  - name: Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
  - name: Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 USC 1311)
  - name: OMB Circulars (A-130, A-131)
  - name: Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
- url: https://www.acquisition.gov/rss.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: The Council is a statutory interagency forum, not a software publisher — it ships no product, operates no host of
    its own, and publishes through GSA's Acquisition.GOV, where its own CAOC pages now answer HTTP 403 to anonymous fetches
    and are absent from the site sitemap while every contract-discovery path on the host returns 404.
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  - url: https://www.acquisition.gov/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.acquisition.gov/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.acquisition.gov/developers
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-09-05'