The purchase order was placed with a foreign company without any competitive bidding.

Procurement training initiative

These requisitions were issued as a matter of efficient routine in full knowledge that a final purchase order could not be issued for several months.

However, the purchase order was only issued in August 2004 in the amount of 3 million.

The Board believes that in certain cases dictated by the value of the order, or the nature of the goods required, advertising can greatly improve the cost effectiveness of the procurement orders.

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.

Besides, the Procurement Unit control sheet was prepared in this case well after the issue of the purchase order.

a Excludes one P 3, one P 2 and three Security Service posts previously approved in the Security and Safety Service that were transferred to the new Department of Safety and Security as at 1 January 2005 in accordance with General Assembly resolution 59 276.

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18. Requests for procurement made on an urgency basis appear to rush the procurement process unduly and inhibit economical and efficient procurement action (see paras. 75 77).

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D. Procurement procedures . 80 81 22

Value (millions of United States dollars)

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Considering that the issue of a requisition, its certification, processing issue of a purchase order, monitoring of delivery and final payment would all require utilization of manhours, such splitting up of requisitions and procurement should be avoided in the interest of a more cost effective procurement process.

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Repos are financing transactions.

Acquisitions are charged against budgetary accounts in the year of purchase.

Number of purchase orders 10 723 11 612 12 000 12 300

Acquisitions are charged against budget accounts in the year of purchase.

Procurement management

Procurement reform

Procurement

Procurement opportunities

Rationalization of procurement practices

Common procurement services

Electronic procurement methods

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(Thousands of United States dollars)

D. Procurement procedures

Scope for local purchase

Number of purchase orders Expenditure

Development of procurement expertise

3. Method of procurement . 12 13 11

No. of purchase orders

The General Administration Manual did not address headquarters procurement procedures as it was intended to cover only country office procurement

The Board acknowledges the extenuating circumstances affecting the procurement function, such as a critical shortage of senior or skilled procurement staff.

The Department of Management indicated that the capital master plan office agreed with the suggestion of OIOS and was taking steps to close the existing purchase order and issue a new one with one lump sum amount for the remaining value of the contract.

This aspect should be included in procurement training programmes.

Table 5 Constraints on e procurement in the United Nations system

Such a penalty clause could be specifically incorporated in the Purchase Order.

Purchases from local dealers, while advantageous in terms of much shorter delivery schedules particularly important in emergency situations may prove more costly than direct procurement from manufacturers, which generally offer price volume discounts to organizations of the system.

In the area of procurement and transportation, efforts will be geared towards the achievement of greater coordination in procurement activities.