Procurement and contract management

Procurement and contract management

(f) Enforce the use of a procurement plan as a tool to facilitate effective and efficient procurement management (para. 115)

189. For international procurement at headquarters, OPS requires that Project Management Officers (PMO) submit a requisition order to the purchasing section.

This is based on a lead agency concept whereby a particular United Nations agency takes the lead on procurement activities for commodities commensurate with its areas of expertise.

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.

In the area of procurement and contract management, UNDP is committed to the four high priority recommendations of the Board.

The Board limited its audit of procurement and contract management primarily to determining the status of implementation of its previous recommendations.

In order 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.

Procurement staffing

The Global Fund, the World Bank and other parts of the UN system, and other multilateral institutions and international partners will engage in a process to identify procurement and supply management bottlenecks, and to agree upon concrete steps for the harmonization and alignment of procurement and supply management policies and procedures.

On procurement planning

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 date, all headquarters procurement staff have participated in basic procurement training organized by IAPSO.

The Procurement Service has also drafted, in consultation with the Office of Human Resources Management and the Office of Legal Affairs, a Declaration of ethical responsibilities .

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The World Bank and WHO to evaluate progress on the building of national capacity on procurement and supply chain management by September 2005.

Procurement at international organizations

Procurement in the Economic Commission for Africa

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Division for Organizational Development

Gender Issues Unit (9 posts)

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Coordinated procurement

(f) Procurement and supply, to gain a greater understanding of the interrelationship between units within the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the missions that they support

Lastly, the Administration was taking steps to improve the quality and timeliness of procurement planning in the missions, which was critical to effective and efficient procurement management.

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.

Audit of procurement fraud indicators

(d) Inter agency Procurement Service Office (IAPSO) the direct procurement services provided by IAPSO have grown dramatically in recent years.

The Procurement Goldmine

Procurement report