Direct procurement of drugs by the recipient countries is also possible through IAPSO's e commerce platform.

UNDP currently encourages procurement from those countries by decentralizing procurement operations to its field offices, especially for in country and in region procurement supportive of direct execution and national execution modalities implemented mostly through these offices.

A literal application of the principle of lowest acceptable bid would mean that preference should be given to direct procurement from manufacturers where this latter option proves less costly than local procurement.

While the application of ICT systems to the procurement process should certainly bring multiple benefits as summarized above, the organizations also have a mandate to strengthen public procurement capacities in the recipient countries so as to enable them to perform direct procurement operations.

Beyond its direct financial contribution, UNICEF also provided procurement services for immunization and worked with such mechanisms as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI).

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Thirdly, it should considerably facilitate procurement reform and the pooling of procurement services.

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

The Procurement Services should investigate ways in which the procurement plan can be enhanced as a tool in the management of the entire procurement process.

About 20 per cent of such procurement is performed by field based peacekeeping procurement units.

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In response to paragraph 48, UNRWA states that every procurement contract with suppliers contains a clause requiring them to attest that no official of the Agency received any direct or indirect benefit arising from that particular contract.

In the meantime, the Procurement Service will organize a second round of the advanced field procurement training programme to upgrade skills of procurement staff in the field missions.

Most of the organizations currently use e procurement for displaying or posting procurement information on their web sites, including procurement guidelines, and for communicating with suppliers and clients.

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Purchases from local dealers, while advantageous in terms of much shorter delivery schedules particularly important in emergency situations may prove more costly than direct procurement from manufacturers, which generally offer price volume discounts to organizations of the system.

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

UNICEF finds that merging procurement services of various agencies into a single procurement facility is not feasible.

Transparency in procurement works wonders.