Procurement

Procurement at international organizations

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

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.

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

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

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Capacity building in public procurement agencies in the recipient countries

Public procurement and management of public finances

Procurement Section (8 new posts)

Aggregate procurement value and trends

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.

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.

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 the meantime, the Procurement Service will organize a second round of the advanced field procurement training programme to upgrade skills of procurement staff in the field missions.

Requests the Secretary General to continue to improve reporting procurement data to Member States and to consider procurement system processes utilized in the government and private sectors

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.

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).

Corruption in procurement and its impact on the enjoyment of human rights

That significant growth in expenditures was, however, not accompanied by efficiency measures in the system wide organization and operation of procurement services, with the exception of procurement reforms at United Nations Headquarters in the 1990s.

Beyond that, the example already provided by IAPSO's e commerce platform shows the way forward.

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.

The Procurement Service has also been working with the Office of Legal Affairs to develop model lease and contract templates to facilitate the work of procurement officials in the peacekeeping missions.