procurement-and-sourcing

procurement-and-sourcing is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 62 tokens per session (722 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for deciding what to buy, comparing suppliers fairly, negotiating terms, and managing spending before a contract is signed. An RFP is a request for proposal sent to potential suppliers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run an RFP, evaluate vendors, negotiate purchases, consolidate category spending, and choose between one or several suppliers.
Why use it?
It reduces biased purchasing and uncontrolled costs by defining the real need, involving users, and creating credible alternatives.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the operations plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to run an RFP, evaluate vendors, negotiate purchases, consolidate category spending, and choose between one or several suppliers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/procurement-and-sourcing
About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 1,320 stars · on GitHub · cbrock84.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill procurement-and-sourcing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install operations, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 722 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00062 $0.00722
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00361
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00072

Measured 4d ago against content hash cd3c5e504c00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

procurement-and-sourcing scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/operations/skills/procurement-and-sourcing/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Procurement and sourcing

This is everything before signature: deciding what to buy, from whom, and on what terms. operations:vendor-management takes over afterward — performance, renewals, exit.

Specify the need, not the product

Most bad purchases are decided before any supplier is contacted, when a requirement is written as a product someone already wanted. Specify the outcome and the constraints; let suppliers propose how.

Separate genuine requirements from preferences, and be honest about which is which. A requirements list that only one supplier satisfies is a purchase order with extra steps, and everyone involved knows it.

Involve the people who will live with the choice. Procurement that optimizes price against a specification the users did not agree to produces a cheap thing nobody uses.

Competition is the leverage

Price is set by the credible presence of an alternative, not by negotiating skill. The single most effective act in sourcing is having a real second option — and being willing to take it.

Run a fair process: same information to every bidder, same questions answered for all, scoring agreed before responses arrive. Scoring invented afterward reliably rediscovers the preferred supplier.

Where genuine competition is impossible — an incumbent with switching costs, a sole source — acknowledge it rather than staging a process. Then negotiate on the things still open: term length, renewal caps, service levels, exit assistance.

Total cost, not price

The quoted figure is a fraction of what you will spend. Model implementation, integration, training, the internal effort to run it, and what leaving costs.

Watch for cost that arrives later by design: per-seat pricing that grows with headcount, usage pricing with no cap, renewal uplifts, and support tiers that turn out to be mandatory. Ask what this costs in year three, and get the answer in the contract.

Category strategy

Aggregate spend before negotiating it. The same category bought independently by four teams is four weak negotiating positions and usually four overlapping tools.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 74 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A cd3c5e504c00

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procurement-and-sourcing is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,320 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 722 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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