Aggregate procurement value and trends

Total procurement on behalf of Governments amounted to just US 157 million, or 3.5 per cent of the organizations' aggregate spending in 2002.

Procurement

Procurement Unit

1 P 5, 1 GS OL

Senegal

65 NS (28 NSc),

See IAPSO procurement statistics at www.iapso.org.

The Procurement Goldmine

Procurement report

(h) Procurement and supply

Procurement and contracting

(a) The International Federation of Purchasing and Materials Management had changed its name to International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management

The Board took note of changes in the names of certain non governmental organizations that already enjoyed observer status with UNCTAD, as follows

1 P 5, 1 P 4, 2 P 3, 1 P 3,a 1 GS (OL), 9 NO, 5 NO,a 1 NS, 15 NS,a 9 UNV, 11 UNVa

Adaptation to climate variability will be the only way forward in many destinations that are currently prime holiday spots.

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.

Public procurement and management of public finances

Procurement at international organizations

Procurement Section (8 new posts)

The Procurement Service agrees with this recommendation.

The following posts are proposed for the Procurement Section

The value of such procurement appears limited.

The Procurement Service instead proposed an amendment to the Procurement Manual that would deal with the issue.

In paragraph 557, the Administration agreed with the Board's recommendation that it implement low value procurement principles, in line with the United Nations Procurement Manual and the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, in order to optimize procurement and staff performance.

External validation of the procurement system

The Procurement Service agrees with this recommendation.

Subsequently renamed Procurement Service.

Mandate change in scope and scale of mandate

Figure 1 Total procurement of goods and services, 1998 2002

Source IAPSO

(b) Inter Agency Procurement Services Office

(d) Networking of procurement services

Table 4 Benefits and beneficiaries of electronic government procurement

Excluding IAPSO.

UNOPS procurement office is in the same building with IAPSO in Copenhagen.

Child 2 217 First language 1 848 net per annum.

(c) Common procurement services and other cooperative arrangements

UNICEF agrees to benchmark its procurement services with United Nations and other public procurement services, considering each organization's specificities to determine whether the level of its handling charge for cost recovery is appropriate.

Taking this into account, the Advisory Committee recommends approval of posts for one Procurement Assistant (Field Service) three Procurement Assistants (national General Service staff) and two Procurement Assistants (United Nations Volunteers).

Altogether the three sites make up 50 of the total plant variety, in Sumatra.

In paragraph 236 of its report, the Board recommended that the Economic Commission for Africa request the assistance of the Procurement Division since renamed Procurement Service in implementing a code of ethics and the signing of declarations of independence of all staff members involved in procurement.

The eight procurement assistants are requested to strengthen the procurement section during the ongoing construction of the integrated mission headquarters, requiring the establishment of over 20 complex engineering contracts.

Net pension Net pensionable salary is that part of net salary that is used to derive the gross pensionable salary.

Net pension Net pensionable salary is that part of net salary that is used to derive the gross pensionable salary.