Government the federal acquisition.
Cots commercial off the shelf software applications.
Cots applications are becoming increasingly more popular for solving mission and business objectives because the development effort is performed by the vendor of the product instead of a customer s internal staff.
Commercial off the shelf or commercially available off the shelf cots products are packaged solutions which are then adapted to satisfy the needs of the purchasing organization rather than the commissioning of custom made or bespoke solutions a related term mil cots refers to cots products for use by the u s.
Commercial off the shelf cots is a term that references non developmental items ndi sold in the commercial marketplace and used or obtained through government contracts.
Cots is a term used to describe commercial off the shelf software.
Software is still developed to improve the efficiency of the organization and both types of software development methods custom application development and off the shelf applications directly serve the purpose.
Therefore commercial off the shelf software cots is software that is commercially produced and sold in a retail store or online ready to use without any form of modification by the user and.
In the context of the u s.