In China, ERAs are open only to members of the local online public procurement bidding system maintained by local public procurement centres.

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.

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.

37. Encourages the international community to support the local economy as a measure for long term stability and countering narcotics and, in this respect, to explore possibilities for enhancing local procurement

The public procurement system could be a practical instrument in the hands of municipalities to tender contracts to local small scale service providers.

In the first lane, the organizations could borrow a leaf from UNHCR's procurement policy, which aims deliberately to stimulate and strengthen the supplier markets and institutions of local communities hosting refugees without prejudice to the integrity of basic procurement standards and procedures.

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I hope that they will increase their efforts and that they think hard about how to ensure that all sectors of recipient countries economies benefit through local procurement.

United Nations Local Missions (Peacekeeping missions) with own procurement staff, excluding other field based entities such as regional economic commissions and information centres data from UNPD web site.

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

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C. Procurement workshops

E. Procurement guidelines

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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.

Mr. Ho O Bom (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) said that the Ministry of Procurement and Food Administration was a central government organ that ran local and district food distribution centres.

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

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H. Procurement staff training

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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.