The Procurement Service is working together with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to improve the skills and capacity of the peacekeeping missions in procurement and contract management.

To ensure that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations submits the consolidated acquisition plan to the Procurement Service by 1 June of each financial year, the Department has an internal goal of submitting all acquisition plans to the Procurement Service by 15 May.

To facilitate data exchange between Headquarters and the peacekeeping missions, the Procurement Service has been working with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to develop a common procurement management system.

9. Also requests the Secretary General to ensure that, on matters relating to procurement in the field, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations follows the principles of objectivity and impartiality while advising the Procurement Division

The same Senior Legal Officer visited the Sudan in December 2004 to assist the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Procurement Service in contract negotiations.

The Executive Secretary, in agreement with the Department of Management, has taken over most of the responsibility for financial, procurement and personnel management of the secretariat.

Requests the Secretary General to ensure that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations communicates the information on vendor performance to all aviation offices involved, including the Procurement Service.

Requests the Secretary General to ensure that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations communicates the information on vendor performance to all aviation offices involved and the Procurement Service.

(a) Procurement Division, Department of Management eleven posts (one P 5, three P 4, four P 3, one General Service (Principal level) and two General Service (Other level))

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There is also the issue of product based decentralization of procurement activities within some organizations. For example, despite its relatively small procurement expenditure, ITU has 4 separate units engaged in procurement one for in house administration (mostly office supplies and furniture), one for ICT products, one for development projects and yet another for ITU TELECOM exhibition activities, each reporting to a different head of department.

Procurement management

Procurement Unit

Procurement planning

Procurement reform

Procurement report

Procurement opportunities

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

The Procurement Goldmine

Public sector procurement

Overview of procurement

C. Procurement workshops

E. Procurement guidelines

Procurement and contracting

Procurement training initiative

Common procurement services

Electronic procurement methods

(i) Recurrent publications Directory of Non governmental Organizations Associated with the Department of Public Information (1) UN Chronicle (in six official languages, quarterly publication) United Nations Development Business procurement publication (twice monthly, multilingual)

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.

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

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57 279. Procurement reform

Procurement at international organizations

Procurement and contract management

H. Procurement staff training

Subsequently renamed Procurement Service.

(h) Procurement and supply

Rationalization of procurement practices

Distribution of procurement activities

As indicated in the previous report (A 58 761), information pertaining to systems contracts has been made available online to the peacekeeping missions by the Procurement Service in cooperation with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

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.