In addition to these comments on the recommendations of the report, on the issue of procurement volume, the comparison appears to be too linear.

Official communications were very limited, and annual bilateral trade was under 1 billion.

As these operations stabilize over the medium to long term, the volume of procurement is likely to remain more or less constant or to decline.

In spite of a further significant increase in the volume of procurement during 2004, the Procurement Service has worked hard to reduce the lead times for goods and services being provided to peacekeeping missions during the reporting period.

We have undertaken to double our official development assistance in four years and are meeting our yearly targets.

Procurement

Procurement Unit

1 P 5, 1 GS OL

Senegal

65 NS (28 NSc),

According to JPS estimates, cost cutting resulting from these common or coordinated arrangements amounted to over Sw F 1 million in 2002.

(f) Strengthening of common procurement services and other cooperative arrangements at the different duty stations, as further discussed below, should be an ideal topic for discussion and action at IAPWG annual meetings.

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

Further, in view of the absence of staffing benchmarks to date, it is difficult to establish which procurement volume would justify full time specialist procurement staff in the field offices, and perhaps even at Headquarters.

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.

Depending on how much long term debt a bank uses, a financing advantage of one third of a percentage point can readily amount to 10 or more of its annual profit.

Public procurement and management of public finances

Procurement at international organizations

Procurement Section (8 new posts)

Aggregate procurement value and trends

The Secretary General proposes the establishment, effective in 2006, of a working capital reserve at the level of 20 per cent of anticipated annual expenditures to cover temporary cash flow deficits and to facilitate advance procurement or accelerated construction activity.

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.

That market has simply disintegrated, with annual emissions volume plummeting 97 from 1.9 trillion to just 50 billion between 1996 and 2009.

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.