The phrase "acquisition committees" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to organizations or businesses that are involved in the process of acquiring assets, companies, or resources.
Example: "The acquisition committees will review the proposals submitted by potential vendors before making a final decision."
Alternatives: "procurement committees" or "buying committees".
The Tate spends £4m-5m a year on acquiring art, of which just under £2m is spent by the international acquisition committees.
During his tenure Mr. Anderson built the museum's collections by establishing acquisition committees in previously unsupported areas like film and video, architecture, and new media.
"I'm getting invited to things earlier and earlier," said Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, the Venezuelan-born collector who chairs acquisition committees for the Guggenheim Museum and the Tate Modern.
Three contemporary-art acquisition committees (one for photography, one made up of young collectors and one an international council of directors) have been filling gaps in the museum's contemporary-art holdings.
Last year it bought 17 works from the 2008 edition — about the same as from past biennials — with funds from the museum's various acquisition committees, sometimes helped by individuals.
The present peer review panels and acquisition committees of New York's art institutions seem to be staffed with people who are either viciously anti-Christian or woefully ignorant (perhaps willfully so) of the emotional attachment that many believers have for Christian symbols.
County officials are working on their application for refuge status, which will be taken up by the Interior Department's acquisition committee next month.
Mr. Martin was chairman of the Brooklyn Museum from 1984 to 1989, a member of the acquisition committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals from 1973 to 1975.
He is on the drawing committee of the Museum of Modern Art, the acquisition committee of the Studio Museum in Harlem and the board of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson.
Mr. de Montebello related how Mr. Lieberman would tell the acquisition committee about works he wanted to acquire: "He would stand in front of a painting and describe it in the greatest detail without ever turning to look at it".
One of Serota's outreach programs has been to form acquisitions committees in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and to hire curators with expert knowledge in those areas.
