Common procurement services

(a) Procurement and Logistics Services

Establishment of a unified system of reporting and accountability for procurement services

Cost effectiveness of procurement services in 2002

Almost all the staff in the procurement services of the agencies the Inspector had the opportunity of visiting did not have legal training.

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

Table 3 attempts to illustrate the cost effectiveness of the organizations' procurement services in 2002 by using the human resource factor, which in most cases represents over 95 per cent of the costs of procurement services or total procurement cost.

UNICEF finds that merging procurement services of various agencies into a single procurement facility is not feasible.

Chapter II focuses on the fundamental issue of the cost effectiveness of the organizations' procurement services.

The report recommends that Executive Heads should ensure that their procurement services have adequate and timely legal support, and that some of their existing staff receive training in the legal aspects of procurement.

Some tendering services even divide types of business very finely in their own way, by CPV (Common Procurement Vocabulary) codes.

Many UNICEF country offices provided technical assistance for the development of funding proposals and, in some cases, procurement services for these major funds.

Enhancing the productivity of procurement services is equally critically dependent on developing the professionalism of the staff concerned through effective training programmes.

Such expertise is usually lodged in the substantive or technical departments, which generate specifications and requisitions for procurement services.

In reviewing the state of procurement services and practices in the United Nations system, the Inspector finds that the procurement function has evolved over the past ten years from a relatively obscure administrative activity to a financially high profile and high risk function.

Requests the Secretary General, taking into account the comments and observations of the Board of Auditors and the Office of Internal Oversight Services, to ensure that information regarding the accountability factor within the procurement reform framework is provided in the next report of the Secretary General on procurement

OIOS had found that the Office at Geneva had complied with United Nations procurement procedures in all but one case.

1998 field staff data reported by OIOS in its report on the review of procurement reform (A 52 813, para.

Beyond its direct financial contribution, UNICEF also provided procurement services for immunization and worked with such mechanisms as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI).

Excluded from this table are organizations that either did not provide data on the staffing of their procurement services or that provided data which proved difficult to verify.

11. Calls upon the executive heads of the funds and programmes of the United Nations to improve their procurement practices, as appropriate, using the Procurement Division of the Office of Central Support Services of the Secretariat as a model in such areas as the posting of bids on the Internet and inviting all registered suppliers to bid

IAPSO, currently the most advanced entity in e procurement, reports that all its procurement functions are carried out using electronic methods and all purchase orders are issued in its UNWebBuy e commerce application.

I want to buy.

Secondly, the organizations will have the opportunity to learn from each other by sharing best and worst experiences and jointly developing strategies and tools to make e procurement a mainstream application in supply services.

Procurement management

Procurement reform

Procurement

Procurement opportunities

Rationalization of procurement practices

Electronic procurement methods

The General Assembly,

The management and staff of the Procurement and Logistics Division continue to focus on the reduction of procurement processing times for all functions, especially the processing times between the issuance of the purchase requisition and purchase order, the approval of purchase orders and the distribution of all documents to the suppliers.

In 1993, the Executive Board authorized the establishment of a reserve for procurement services at 2 million (E ICEF 1993 AB L.11 and E ICEF 1993 14, decision 1993 19).

Procurement and contract management

Procurement training initiative

Procurement policy and procedures manuals

Distribution of procurement activities

All executive heads should ensure that their respective procurement services have adequate and timely legal support, and that some of their existing staff receive training in the legal aspects of procurement (para.

It was not exactly clear which requisition for purchase date begins the actual procurement process.

Buy Back or Pay Forward?

61 246. Procurement reform

57 279. Procurement reform

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Procurement practices within the United Nations system

Building on its long history of supply support, both within country programmes and increasingly as procurement services support, UNICEF will offer a mix of programme and procurement services to Governments as a unified basket of support.