Requests the Secretary General to continue to improve reporting procurement data to Member States and to consider procurement system processes utilized in the government and private sectors

The web sites are generally linked to those of other procurement services within the United Nations system as well as to the United Nations Global Marketplace, formerly Common Supply Database, maintained by IAPSO.

Procurement

Procurement Unit

1 P 5, 1 GS OL

Senegal

65 NS (28 NSc),

See IAPSO procurement statistics at www.iapso.org.

The Procurement Goldmine

Procurement report

(h) Procurement and supply

Procurement and contracting

(a) The International Federation of Purchasing and Materials Management had changed its name to International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management

The Board took note of changes in the names of certain non governmental organizations that already enjoyed observer status with UNCTAD, as follows

1 P 5, 1 P 4, 2 P 3, 1 P 3,a 1 GS (OL), 9 NO, 5 NO,a 1 NS, 15 NS,a 9 UNV, 11 UNVa

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To ensure that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations submits the consolidated acquisition plan to the Procurement Service by 1 June of each financial year, the Department has an internal goal of submitting all acquisition plans to the Procurement Service by 15 May.

Public procurement and management of public finances

Procurement at international organizations

Procurement Section (8 new posts)

Aggregate procurement value and trends

You say, This photograph, it's about it depicts this person. Bing! That's data. Data, data, data.

In the area of procurement, UNOCI was able to share information on its scope of work, contracts and market data, including vendor databases and invitee lists to meet numerous requirements, such as security equipment and the turnkey fuel contract.

The Procurement Service agrees with this recommendation.

The following posts are proposed for the Procurement Section

The value of such procurement appears limited.

The Procurement Service instead proposed an amendment to the Procurement Manual that would deal with the issue.

In paragraph 557, the Administration agreed with the Board's recommendation that it implement low value procurement principles, in line with the United Nations Procurement Manual and the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, in order to optimize procurement and staff performance.

We could talk about government data, enterprise data is really important, there's scientific data, there's personal data, there's weather data, there's data about events, there's data about talks, and there's news and there's all kinds of stuff.

External validation of the procurement system

The Procurement Service agrees with this recommendation.

Subsequently renamed Procurement Service.

Mandate change in scope and scale of mandate

Figure 1 Total procurement of goods and services, 1998 2002

Source IAPSO

(b) Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

(d) Networking of procurement services

Table 4 Benefits and beneficiaries of electronic government procurement

Excluding IAPSO.

UNOPS procurement office is in the same building with IAPSO in Copenhagen.

All data for 2004 are provisional.

Taken into account is the fact that while staffing tables generally remain constant, procurement volumes may fluctuate from one year or biennium to another, as observed by the Inspector in the 1999 2002 procurement data provided by some organizations.

(c) Common procurement services and other cooperative arrangements

UNICEF agrees to benchmark its procurement services with United Nations and other public procurement services, considering each organization's specificities to determine whether the level of its handling charge for cost recovery is appropriate.

Taking this into account, the Advisory Committee recommends approval of posts for one Procurement Assistant (Field Service) three Procurement Assistants (national General Service staff) and two Procurement Assistants (United Nations Volunteers).