Each organization has its own procurement manual.

The objective should read To ensure efficient, effective and diversified procurement opportunities and high quality procurement services for the Organization.

It would seem that IAPSO is at present the only organization in the procurement system to have successfully automated its entire procurement process.

The United Nations Inter Agency Procurement Working Group and the International Training Centre have launched an Organization wide procurement certification project to ensure that all United Nations procurement practitioners are professionally certified in their respective disciplines.

Only three organizations reported that procurement was performed in 2002 on their behalf by another sister organization.

Procurement refers to the acquisition of goods and services by any individual or organization (public, private, international, etc.).

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

The executive heads of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), ITU and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) should bring their separate specialized procurement units under a single system of accountability for procurement operations, in particular in the case of relatively low procurement volumes (para.

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.

That significant growth in expenditures was, however, not accompanied by efficiency measures in the system wide organization and operation of procurement services, with the exception of procurement reforms at United Nations Headquarters in the 1990s.

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

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Public sector procurement

Overview of procurement

C. Procurement workshops

E. Procurement guidelines

Procurement and contracting

Procurement training initiative

Common procurement services

Electronic procurement methods

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

For UNFPA, large spending was not contracted through other agencies and 4.8 per cent of the procurement value of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) was contracted through another organization.

Following upon the recommendations of a 1994 report by the High Level Group of Experts on Procurement, which conducted an in depth review of procurement practices of the United Nations, the Organization has pursued intensive procurement reform almost on a continuous basis over the past ten years, under the close guidance of the General Assembly and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ).

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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H. Procurement staff training

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Rationalization of procurement practices

Distribution of procurement activities

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.