In addition, a moratorium could be placed on any restrictive policies relating to outsourcing (e.g. government procurement).

After that, the Inspector visited most of the organizations to obtain more specific information concerning their procurement policies and practices.

European military effectiveness is also curbed by different procurement policies, as those countries that produce military hardware prefer to keep orders at home.

(b) Review existing policies, procedures and guidelines to determine whether they are sufficiently flexible to cater for the requirements of a computerised procurement process.

Partly as a result of this policy, the harmonization of procurement policies, procedures and practices across the organizations is still to make decisive headway.

Aside from the multilingual policies of some organizations, having procurement manuals in the three working languages of the organizations is an important practical requirement in cases of decentralized procurement operations, in particular the United Nations and its funds and programmes.

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Its meetings additionally provide an opportunity for the business community of the host country to gain greater exposure to the procurement policies and activities of the organizations.

It is recognised that the organisation has well developed policies, rules and regulations to ensure that adequate controls are in place to manage procurement activities effectively and efficiently.

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It also welcomed the recommendations for greater joint procurement, post implementation benefit audits, efforts to ensure implementation of information security policies and improved ICT audits, costing and staff training.

The executive heads of the organizations should ensure that procurement manuals exist in the working languages of the secretariats of the organizations in line with the relevant multilingual policies of the organizations concerned, in order to foster the integrity of the procurement process in all field offices (para.

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.

The Global Fund, the World Bank and other parts of the UN system, and other multilateral institutions and international partners will engage in a process to identify procurement and supply management bottlenecks, and to agree upon concrete steps for the harmonization and alignment of procurement and supply management policies and procedures.

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

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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.