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service provider  

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  • Service provider refers to all those organizational entities or individuals that are directly involved in the delivery of a vast range of services to clients, consumers, or citizens at private or public levels. The term refers to a variety of forms of ownership and structures; it is broad enough to encompass individual and organizational providers, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, for-profit and nonprofit entities, and professionals and nonprofessionals. [Source: Encyclopedia of Governance; Service Provider]

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