Procurement policy and procedures manuals

Comment by the Administration. UNDP supports such a procurement policy and has incorporated it into the Procurement Manual.

E procurement is yet to be reflected in procurement policy and procedures manuals as an alternative method to manual transactions.

In 2004, the White House Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) issued a memorandum encouraging increased use of commercially available online procurement tools, including reverse auctions.

Such a policy was adopted in the aftermath of the 1973 war, when America offered 200 million annually for wheat procurement.

The report recommends the further development of the existing common procurement guidelines of IAPSO into a generic system wide policy and procedures manual.

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

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

The question therefore is how to best balance the policy principle of equitable geographical distribution of supply sources against the requirement of more cost effective procurement operations.

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C. Procurement workshops

E. Procurement guidelines

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Electronic procurement methods

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.

These inadequacies no doubt stem from inconsistent application outside of the United Nations and its funds and programmes of procurement policy guidelines laid down by the General Assembly.

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

It would be consistent with, and help implement, the legislative and policy prescriptions outlined at the beginning of this chapter on common services and facilities, including common procurement system.

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.