External validation of the procurement system

External audit welcomes this initiative to modernise the procurement system, which should carry significant benefits.

No external supplier without prior knowledge of the United Nations Secretariat structure would easily access procurement information on the web site.

The valid points raised in the preceding paragraph apply by and large equally to all organizations in terms of procurement of goods, works and services, and where procurement performance can be dependent on support services provided by other internal or external units.

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

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(e) IAPWG needs to interact more with other entities in the public and private procurement sector and relevant academic bodies so that it is kept abreast of practice, innovations and trends in the external environment.

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.

Moreover, IAPSO could additionally be enabled to sharpen its expertise in e procurement and make it available at low cost to other members of IAPWG, at least in order to preclude recourse to expensive external consultants.

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

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Rationalization of procurement practices

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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.

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.

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Transparency in procurement works wonders.

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