In reviewing the state of procurement services and practices in the United Nations system, the Inspector finds that the procurement function has evolved over the past ten years from a relatively obscure administrative activity to a financially high profile and high risk function.

E procurement, discussed in chapter V, is seen by virtually all the organizations as offering potential benefits for the modernization of the procurement function and bringing it to world class standards.

Viewed in terms of cost effectiveness, if not of common sense, the need to outsource the procurement function to a sister agency, especially under common services arrangements discussed further on in the report, would seem crucial where procurement is a tactical rather than a strategic function.

Table 2 suggests that the organization of the procurement function within the United Nations system is far from optimal.

In the concluding chapter, the Inspector discusses the ways and means by which the organizations could use the procurement function as a development tool in the recipient countries, using a two track approach.

Procurement constitutes a strategic function of the United Nations and its funds and programmes, which in 2002, together accounted for 85 per cent of total procurement expenditure of the organizations.

The Inspector concurs with the above points of view, but observes that the method used to compare procurement staff productivity and cost addresses more specifically the important issue of the overhead structure and cost, which is essentially the staffing and cost of the procurement function within the United Nations system in 2002.

I want to buy.

Procurement management

Procurement reform

Procurement

Procurement opportunities

Rationalization of procurement practices

Common procurement services

Electronic procurement methods

The General Assembly,

The management and staff of the Procurement and Logistics Division continue to focus on the reduction of procurement processing times for all functions, especially the processing times between the issuance of the purchase requisition and purchase order, the approval of purchase orders and the distribution of all documents to the suppliers.

Procurement and contract management

(a) Procurement and Logistics Services

Procurement training initiative

Procurement policy and procedures manuals

Distribution of procurement activities

It was not exactly clear which requisition for purchase date begins the actual procurement process.

The 347 proposed temporary staff positions comprise 73 international staff and 274 national staff positions, inclusive of 15 national officers.

Buy Back or Pay Forward?

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57 279. Procurement reform

a) the transport of firearms and ammunition to a Member State of the European Union, to the territory or through the territory thereof transport of firearms and ammunition by business entities having place of business or seat outside of the Slovak Republic notification is provided during the transport at the latest,

Public procurement for projects financed by the multilateral financial institutions will remain outside the scope of the present report, nonetheless the above figures highlight the importance of the subject and of the procurement function within the United Nations system.

Procurement practices within the United Nations system

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A Report of the Secretary General on procurement reform

They have expanded overseas through acquisitions.

The income and expenditures relating to procurement services amounted to

Figure 2 Procurement from programme countries

the nature of the products or services being procured

Wish function

User function

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1 D 1, 1 P 5, 1 P 4, 1 FS, 2 NO, 1 NS

1 D 1, 11 P 5, 10 P 4, 8 P 3, 7 P 2,

1 D 1, 3 P 4, 3 P 3, 1 GS (OL),

1 P 5, 1 P 4, 2 P 3, 12 P 2,

3 NS, 1 UNV

2 P 4, 4 P 3, 6 FS, 9 NS