(b) Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

UNDP Inter Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO) already has an advanced e procurement platform.

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

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In 2004, the White House Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) issued a memorandum encouraging increased use of commercially available online procurement tools, including reverse auctions.

Comment by the Administration. The Information Technology Services Division and the Procurement Service of the Office of Central Support Services have taken action to ensure that all aspects of agreements with third parties are adequately controlled.

See, e.g., the Working Procedure for Online Procurement Bidding (Office Equipment), article 6, under the Zhejiang Province Interim Measures for the Management of Online Public Procurement Bidding.

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The Office of Legal Affairs and the users of its services should develop a set of criteria to facilitate identification of higher risk procurement situations that may require the involvement of the Office in the early stage of procurement planning

62 234. Reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services and financing of the Procurement Task Force

The Procurement Service has also drafted, in consultation with the Office of Human Resources Management and the Office of Legal Affairs, a Declaration of ethical responsibilities .

11. Calls upon the executive heads of the funds and programmes of the United Nations to improve their procurement practices, as appropriate, using the Procurement Division of the Office of Central Support Services of the Secretariat as a model in such areas as the posting of bids on the Internet and inviting all registered suppliers to bid

The creation of an ethics office is central to this effort.

The Procurement Service has also been working with the Office of Legal Affairs to develop model lease and contract templates to facilitate the work of procurement officials in the peacekeeping missions.

The JIU report recommends a detailed review of the feasibility and efficiency benefits of such measures as the further strengthening of procurement reform at headquarters by establishing a central procurement facility at headquarters.

Further strengthening of procurement reform at Headquarters by establishing a central procurement facility at Headquarters by 2010 with a view to providing energetic leadership and a frame of reference for similar streamlining of procurement activities at other duty stations, especially in the field (para.

In addition, generic and topic specific procurement handbooks and manuals are often prepared by central or local authorities, but could also be issued by procuring entities or agencies responsible for maintaining government procurement websites.

OIOS had found that the Office at Geneva had complied with United Nations procurement procedures in all but one case.

Benchmarks used include the benchmark prices established by the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office and the consultancy fees being charged.

While most of the procurement staff are familiar with the standards of conduct, updated by inter office memorandum dated 21 November 2004, the Procurement and Logistics Division agrees that familiarity with those standards needs to be documented and extended to all staff associated with the procurement process.

The Inspector however understands that substantive legal aspects of procurement are best handled by the legal counsel of the organization concerned, which would therefore call for improved coordination between the office of legal counsel and procurement units earlier in the procurement process, before contracts are concluded.

Leveraging resources. Resources from Governments and development partners will be leveraged by providing procurement services that combine the global procurement and field office operational capabilities of UNICEF, ensuring effectiveness of in country logistics (see also chapter V).

In addition, the Board of Auditors and the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), which identified the procurement function as a high risk area, periodically review the reform process and audit procurement practices of the funds and programmes.

UNICEF agrees to review the sustainability of the increase in procurement activity of the China country office on behalf of other country offices.

In December 2002, the General Legal Division proposed to the Procurement Service that a team composed of the requisitioner, the Procurement Service and the Office of Legal Affairs should be convened at an early stage in the procurement process so that major legal issues that were likely to arise could be addressed.

The law required the Central Statistics Office to release a set of population figures province by province.

3 Office of Insular Affairs (see http www.pacificweb.org) United States Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook, 2004.

The staffing table for the Regional Office for Central Asia was increased by two Local level posts.

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Specifically, the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office will make specific and strategic efforts to promote the use of suppliers from developing countries to ensure a wider distribution of supply sources (para. UNDP will progressively introduce mandatory procurement plans by September 2007 (para.

13 posts in the Department of Management (3 in the Office of the Under Secretary General, 7 in the Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts, 1 in the Office of Human Resources Management and 2 in the Office of Central Support Services

The United Nations Office at Geneva Procurement reform initiatives similar to those at United Nations Headquarters are in progress at the Geneva duty station as well.

28D.2 The Office of Central Support Services has undergone significant organizational restructuring during the biennium 2004 2005.

Department of Management Office of Central Support Services Organizational structure and post distribution for the biennium 2006 2007

An important initiative to improve operational cooperation between law enforcement agencies in Central Asia was launched by the Office to establish a Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre.

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